By Marcus Uhe
Family First Victoria party candidates have drawn the coveted first place on the election ballot paper for both seats of Cranbourne and Narre Warren South.
Bradley Harvey (Cranbourne) and Jacqueline Harvey (Narre Warren South) both secured first place at ballot draws on Friday 11 November, ahead of early voting opening on Monday 14 November.
Having the first place on the ballot secures the ‘donkey vote’, should voters simply list their preferences in order of the paper presented.
Neither candidate has a profile listed on the Family First Victoria party’s website as of Friday afternoon, 11 November.
The draws were held at Victorian Electoral Commission (VEC) electoral offices across the state, using independently audited and authorised computerised draw software.
Incumbent Labor MPs Pauline Richards and Gary Maas will both be in fifth place on their respective ballots, while the Liberal party holds the fourth position of both cards, in Jagdeep Singh (Cranbourne) and Annette Samuel (Narre Warren South), respectively.
Nine candidates will contest Cranbourne, while eight are running in Narre Warren South.
Both seats have had Labor members of Parliament since 2002, with Ms Richards and Mr Maas both completing their first term as State MPs in 2022.
The final order of results, from first to last, were as follows:
CRANBOURNE:
Bradley Harvey – Freedom First Victoria
Chris Norton – Labour DLP
Peter Bernard Philpott – Derryn Hinch’s Justice Party
Jagdeep Singh – Liberal
Pauline Richards – Labor
Gwynne Brennan – Animal Justice Party
Ravi Ragupathy – Independent
Gerardine Hansen – Freedom Party of Victoria
Kiran Vempati – Australian Greens
NARRE WARREN SOUTH:
Jacqueline Harvey – Family First Victoria
Christine Skrobo – Liberal Democrats
Tylere Baker-Pearce – Independent
Annette Samuel – Liberal
Gary Maas – Labor
Michael Gallagher – Animal Justice Party
Susanna Moore – Australian Greens
Geoff Hansen – Freedom Party of Victoria
Cranbourne is bordered by Thompsons Road, Browns Road, the Clyde Road Corridor and Dandenong-Hastings Road, encompassing the suburbs of of Cranbourne, Cranbourne West, Botanic Ridge, Junction Village, Cranbourne East, and parts of Devon Meadows, Clyde and Clyde North.
Narre Warren South is bordered by the South Gippsland Freeway, the Hallam Main Drain, Thompsons Road and the Clyde Road Corridor, housing Hampton Park, Lynbrook, Cranbourne North and Narre Warren South.
There are five early voting centres open across the City of Casey; in Cranbourne, Clyde North, Narre Warren, Berwick and Hampton Park, respectively.
For more information on where and how to vote head to vec.vic.gov.au/voting
