Fisher votes slow to a trickle
Labor is clinging to a tiny lead in the battle for the seat of Fisher, with postal votes slowing to a trickle.
After counting of 192 postal votes yesterday, Labor’s Nat Cook led the Liberals’ Heidi Harris by 21 votes.
This morning the Electoral Commission received just nine more votes in the post.
Another count of postals won’t be carried out until tomorrow, then again on Saturday, before a distribution of all candidates’ preferences.
Saturday is the earliest that a result will be known in the twisting and turning count.
Strategists from both major parties are unsure who will win, with independent Dan Woodyatt still an outside chance to pick up the southern suburbs seat.
After last weekend’s count, Cook held a 600-plus lead on a two-party preferred basis.
That lead was whittled away by the count of postal votes and then totally wiped out by the pre-poll votes, with Harris taking a narrow lead on Tuesday.
That trend had been expected to continue yesterday, but the primary votes were split almost evenly between Labor, Liberal and Woodyatt.
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Labor’s advantage was that the vast majority of Woodyatt’s preferences flowed to Cook, putting her back in front.
Fisher went to a by-election after the death of long-standing independent MP Bob Such in October.
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