Socialist Alliance tops 5%!
HOBART — With 78% of the vote counted by the end of polling night on May 1, Socialist Alliance candidate Kamala Emanuel had received 860 votes or 5.27% in the Tasmanian upper house seat of Elwick.
Greens candidate Helen Burnett gained 14.79% of the vote and the Labor candidate was set to take the seat with 59.87%.
Alex Bainbridge
From Green Left Weekly, May 5, 2004.
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