Greens achieve best Result ever in Richmond
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The Greens candidate for Richmond, Giovanni Ebono, thanked members and
supporters of the Greens for their support and hard work on election night
24th November.
The seat of Richmond has become one of the greenest seats in Australia,
according to the Australian Electoral Commission after 75% of the vote has
been counted.
With almost 16 percent of Richmond voting for him on Saturday, candidate for The Greens, Giovanni Ebono, said he was proud that Richmond has joined the elite club of electorates with a Green vote of more than 15 per cent.
“It is fitting that Northern NSW and Tasmania should emerge from this election as rural Greens strongholds,” Mr Ebono, said today. “The Green movement began here with the Nightcap Forest actions and then went on to save the Franklin.”
“On Saturday, we won a string of booths from Byron Bay to Nimbin on preferences, but we still have a lot of work to do in Tweed Heads.”
According to the AEC, the Green vote in booths around Tweed Heads was a little over 7 per cent.
Most of the booths that voted Green ahead of Labor or the Nationals are relatively small, Goonengerry, Wilsons Creek and Coorabell, for example, all contain less than 1000 voters. The booths of Brunswick Heads and Byron Bay, though, each have over 2,000 voters. In his home town of Mullumbimby, 2500 voters delivered a remarkable two party preferred result of 61.7% to the Greens. Across the Byron Shire the two party preferred result was around 56.5% to the Greens ahead of Labor.
“The people of Byron Shire know that we will all be living according to Green principles within twenty years and believe that we should start planning for it now,” Ebono said.
Four of the greenest seats in Australia are in the inner city areas of Sydney and Melbourne. The other rural Green seat is Denison, Tasmania, where Helen Hutchison opposed the pulp mill and garnered the vote of more than 18 per cent of electors.
The twenty fifth anniversary of the Nightcap National Park was celebrated in Nimbin last month.
