2006 Victoria Park state by-election
Results

2006 Victoria Park state by-election

Section Title: Results
Table Section Text: None

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±

Labor	Ben Wyatt	7,786	49.38	7.93

Liberal	Bruce Stevenson	4,887	30.99	+3.24

Greens	Dee Margetts	1,328	8.42	0.25

Christian Democrats	Bill Heggers	551	3.49	0.13

One Nation	Sue Bateman	436	2.76	+0.10

Independent	Andrew Owens	217	1.38	+1.38

Daylight Saving	James Dunn	156	0.99	+0.99

Family First	Peter Greaves	151	0.96	+0.96

John Tattersall	131	0.83	+0.83

Independent	Mike Ward	83	0.53	+0.53

Independent	Teresa Van Lieshout	43	0.27	+0.27

Total formal votes	15,769	96.26	+1.58

Informal votes	612	3.74	1.58

Turnout	16,381	64.04	23.62

Two-party-preferred result

Labor	Ben Wyatt	9,632	61.18	4.86

Liberal	Bruce Stevenson	6,111	38.82	+4.86

Labor hold	Swing	4.86

Sentence(s)

Ben Wyatt won the seat for the Labor party, with a swing of 4.86%.

final_sentence: Ben Wyatt won the seat for the Labor party, with a swing of 4.86%.