IN A blow to the LNP’s hopes for winning Blair, One Nation candidate Liz Suduk has been urging voters to put the major parties last.
In the 2019 election One Nation gained the third highest vote, 17 percent of the vote, in an even contest between the LNP (29 percent) and Labor (31 percent).
The Greens attracted 9 percent of the vote in 2019 and other minor parties and independents attracted a combined 14 percent.
Ms Suduk has said the major parties are “wrecking the country” with political correctness and has urged voters to “number all your boxes on the green form, and vote the majors last”.
The One Nation candidate for Blair has preferenced the LNP’s Sam Biggins fifth on her how-to-vote card, behind the Australian Values Party’s Maria Pitman, the Liberal Democrats’ Michelle Jaques and United Australia Party’s Quinton Cunningham.
Despite the constant messaging to put the majors last though, her how-to-vote card puts the Greens last and the Animal Justice Party after the LNP.
Ms Pitman, who is number two on the One Nation how-to-vote card, puts Labor sitting member Shayne Neumann ahead of Mr Biggins on her Australian Values Party how-to-vote card.
The Liberal Democrats Michelle Jaques also puts Mr Neumann ahead of Mr Biggins, preferencing the minor conservative parties.
United Australia Party’s Quinton Cunningham has been campaigning to put the majors last but his how-to-vote card says to vote one for him and “number every box” giving no preferences.
Although there has been a strong campaign against the greyhound racing facility in Ipswich, the Animal Justice Party’s candidate for Blair Angela Lowery has been nowhere to be seen during the campaign.
The Greens meanwhile hope to pick up votes with their candidate Danielle Mutton, a strong and consistent local campaigner who has voiced the community’s concerns on issues from the greyhound track to homelessness, toxic dumps, development around the old Deebing Creek Aboriginal Mission site and concerns on decisions made by Ipswich City Council as developer of the CBD in competition to existing business.
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