Federal Election 2016: Tasmanian senator Richard Colbeck loses senate seat, Richard Colbeck , Australian Electoral Commission , Liberal Party, Australia federal election 2016 Results
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Federal Election 2016: Tasmanian senator Richard Colbeck loses senate seat, Richard Colbeck , Australian Electoral Commission , Liberal Party, Australia federal election 2016 Results

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Federal Election 2016: Tasmanian senator Richard Colbeck loses senate seat, Richard Colbeck , Australian Electoral Commission , Liberal Party, Australia federal election 2016 Results

Key points:

  • 4 Liberals, 5 Labor, 2 Greens and 1 independent for Tasmania in the Senate
  • Mr Colbeck dumped after representing Tasmania and the Liberals for over 14 years
  • Senator Singh say she holds no resentment for relegation to sixth place on the Labor ticket
  • Labor's Lisa Singh has also won a seat.

Mr Colbeck was Tasmania's only minister, holding the Tourism and International Education portfolios in the last parliament.

But he was relegated to the unsafe fifth position on the Tasmanian Liberal Party ticket.

After the distribution of preferences today, it has become clear Mr Colbeck has lost the battle for the 12th Senate spot to the Greens' Nick McKim.

A massive below-the-line vote saw Senator Singh re-elected, despite her relegation to the sixth position on her party's ticket in favour of a union boss.

She took the 10th Senate spot ahead of her colleague Senator Catryna Bilyk, who has also been returned.

Mr Colbeck said he was proud to have represented Tasmanians and the Liberal Party for more than 14 years.

"It has been said many times recently that politics is governed by the hard and fast rules of mathematics — either you have the numbers or you don't," he said.

"It says a lot about our country that you can come from a dairy farm with a vocational education as a tradesman to become a representative in the Parliament and serve at the level I have served, as a Minister in the Federal Government."

Mr Colbeck said for much of his tenure he had been the only federal Liberal representative on the north-west coast of Tasmania.

src: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-07-27/senator-richard-colbeck-loses-senate-seat/7665266 

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