Victorian Greens

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The official VEC results are finally in.

Here is how The Greens fared in the 2010 Victorian election, our most successful state election.

1)      Our Upper House result is the highest ever achieved by The Greens in a state election on the mainland.

2)      The Greens vote rose by 1.2% in the Lower House (to 11.2%) and around 1.6% in the Upper House (to 12.1%) compared to 2006.

3)      Our vote rose in every one of the Upper House regions, and in more than 60 of the Lower House regions.

4)      We achieved primary vote swings in our four strongest lower house electorates – Melbourne, Richmond, Brunswick and Northcote.

5)      We achieved strong swings (up to 8.9%) in an arc of seats stretching from Williamstown to Ivanhoe, including Footscray, Derrimut, Essendon, Pascoe Vale and Preston.

6)     Colleen Hartland has been re-elected to Western Metro with a swing of 4%, alongside Sue Pennicuik in Southern Metropolitan and Greg Barber in Northern Metropolitan.