Jacqui Lambie has secured the fifth seat in the Tasmanian Senate, edging out One Nation leader Pauline Hanson’s daughter, Lee Hanson.
The Australian Electoral Commission confirmed the count on Tuesday morning following a tightly-contested electoral race.
The Jacqui Lambie Network senator will join Liberal senators Richard Colbeck and Claire Chandler, Labor senators Carol Brown and Richard Dowling and Greens senator Nick McKim in rounding out the island state’s six upper house representatives.
The fifth and sixth seats, which went to Lambie and Colbeck, were in doubt for weeks as preferences continued to be distributed.
Jacqui Lambie (pictured) has secured the fifth seat in the Tasmanian Senate
Lambie, along with ACT independent senator David Pocock, played a significant role in negotiating with the first-term Labor government on its industrial relations reforms.
Recently, she has been outspoken in her opposition to salmon farming in Macquarie Harbour, a shallow fjord on Tasmania’s west coast where environmental groups claim local species are being endangered by the fishing activities.
The outspoken senator’s vote sits currently at 0.51, lower than her previous share of 0.69 in 2019.
More to come.
