North Sydney electorate

Sydneysiders flocked to voting stations on Saturday to cast their vote in the federal election after a six-week campaign. We'll be updating this story ...

“This community has voted for fairness, for integrity in government, and for a better future for all. “When my parents came to this country more than four decades ago they were unskilled and spoke very little English. They worked hard in factories… “We’ve lost sense of what it is to be a broad church and I think we need to rediscover that middle ground,” he said. Veteran Labor MP Chris Hayes had wanted Vietnamese-Australian lawyer Tu Le to succeed him in the multicultural seat, which Labor held on a 14 per cent margin. This is a win for democracy.” Having him decide to step aside, you just do get automatically that transfer of vote.” - Matthew Knott Sydneysiders flocked to voting stations on Saturday to cast their vote in the federal election after a six-week campaign. “The negative fear and smear, people are turned off by it,” she said. “When I was first pre-selected I said to be your candidate for Parramatta was the honour of my life, and tonight that honour has turned into a responsibility. I want to thank the people of Reid for electing me and trusting me to be their representative in federal parliament. “This is about genuinely trying to represent our community and take our voice and values to Canberra,” she said. With 70 per cent of the vote counted in the north Sydney seat as of 9pm, Liberal candidate Simon Kennedy has 51 per cent of the two-party preferred vote and Labor’s Jerome Laxale is on 49 per cent, according to the Australian Electoral Commission.