Subscribe to my newsletter Katy's election night speech Thank you very much. It is so great to see so many of you here tonight to celebrate what has been an amazing election. Can I thank my deputy, Andrew Barr for working with me over this campaign. Your loyalty and your support has meant a lot to me, so thank you very much. Now friends, this was always going to be a tough election for Labor, seeking a fourth election victory after eleven years in government. But look at what we have achieved tonight. We have held all of our seats. We have increased our vote. We are the party with the most votes. We have seen a swing to an incumbent Labor Government. But friends, tonight is not the night for victory speeches, for any party, not for any party. The final count will not be known for some time. There is still doubt about the fifth seat in Brindabella and the seventh seat in Molonglo, and we need to take time to see how those votes and the preference distribution actually falls. We've done everything we could do in this campaign and all of you here in this room are testament to that. We have run seventeen individual campaigns, we've run a central campaign, we've responded to an incredibly deceitful, negative campaign from the Canberra Liberals. The Labor Party and the Labor Party I lead will never campaign on a lie. We will never, ever, ever, campaign on a