Woodyatt still pondering Fisher challenge
Labor’s Nat Cook has won the Fisher by-election by nine votes, after a painstaking recount yesterday, but a legal challenge is still a possibility.
Independent Daniel Woodyatt has engaged legal counsel to consider a court of disputed returns, after the Electoral Commission found the Liberal Party had distributed misleading campaign material about him.
Woodyatt told InDaily this morning he had not made up his mind about whether to proceed with the challenge.
“”We’re waiting for a declaration (of the result),” he said. “We haven’t made a decision.”
Cook originally claimed a nail-biting 23-vote win over the Liberal’s Heidi Harris on Saturday after the final distribution of preferences.
She had knocked out Woodyatt by just 226 votes and claimed most of his preferences to win.
However, the Electoral Commissioner Kay Mousley agreed to the Liberal Party’s request for a recount yesterday.
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That recount – which continued through the day and finished about 9.20pm – ended with Cook on 10,284 votes to Harris’s 10,275.
The win will give Labor a majority on the floor of Parliament.
The final results have been published here.
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