2017 Northcote state by-election
Results

2017 Northcote state by-election

Section Title: Results
Table Section Text: None

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±

Greens	Lidia Thorpe	16,319	45.2	+8.9

Labor	Clare Burns	12,779	35.4	−5.6

Independent	Vince Fontana	1,864	5.2	+5.2

Liberal Democrats	Dean Rossiter	1,497	4.1	+4.1

Independent	Laura Chipp	1,152	3.2	+3.2

Animal Justice	Nina Lenk	773	2.1	+0.4

Independent	Philip Cooper	436	1.2	+1.2

Independent	Russell Hayward	360	1.0	+1.0

Independent	Joseph Toscano	331	0.9	+0.9

Independent	Nevena Spirovska	215	0.6	+0.6

Independent	Brian Sanaghan	208	0.6	+0.6

Independent	Bryony Edwards	154	0.4	−0.4

Total formal votes	36,088	94.9	−0.9

Informal votes	1,940	5.1	+0.9

Turnout	38,028	79.0	−12.6

Two-candidate-preferred result

Greens	Lidia Thorpe	20,137	55.6	+11.6

Labor	Clare Burns	16,080	44.4	−11.6

After distribution of preferences

Greens	Lidia Thorpe	18,380	50.9	N/A

Labor	Clare Burns	14,410	39.9	N/A

Independent	Vince Fontana	3,298	9.1	N/A

Greens gain from Labor	Swing	+11.6

Sentence(s)

Two-candidate-preferred count had Lidia Thorpe (Greens) on 20,137 votes (55.6%) to Clare Burns (Labor) on 16,080 votes (44.4%) a swing of 11.6 percentage points to the Greens.

final_sentence: Two-candidate-preferred count had Lidia Thorpe (Greens) on 20,137 votes (55.6%) to Clare Burns (Labor) on 16,080 votes (44.4%) a swing of 11.6 percentage points to the Greens.