Wednesday 5pm. The addition of 1337 postal votes suggests we can just about put this one to bed. They’ve favoured Craig Laundy over John Murphy by 845-492, extending the former’s lead out to 928.
Election night. Reid is one of a number of Sydney seats where Labor did better than expected, though in this case perhaps not quite enough. The ABC projects a 3.5% swing against a 3.1% margin, with all ordinary election night votes counted.
Post-counting recovery rate required to get this is at the upper margins of what Labor has done anywhere in the past. Likely Coalition win.
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