Rob Mitchell has retained the seat of McEwen.
Mr Mitchell has been the McEwen MP since 2010, and despite the seat being marginal at recent elections, he has managed to keep his seat.
After the recent redistributions, McEwen lost 7400 voters from Kilmore to Nicholls, with other minor boundary changes with neighbouring Calwell, Scullin and Casey.
This increased Labor’s margin in the electorate from 3.3 per cent to 3.9 per cent.
Currently, Mr Mitchell holds 54.88 per cent of the two-candidate preferred votes, ahead of the Liberal candidate, Jason McClintock with 45.12 per cent, with a small swing towards the ALP.
The seat of McEwen was called early on election night, Saturday, May 3, with Mr Mitchell celebrating with his supporters and his family.
Mr Mitchell thanked his supporters on social media.
He said the result was surreal for him to watch.
“To say we were humbled and grateful is an understatement,” Mr Mitchell said.
“We know the Liberal Party has invested a lot of money to try and take us down and we could never match them dollar for dollar but we knew we had the right message to people about the right things that are important to our community.
“I’ve never ever taken this seat for granted never ever will so it was good to see the backing and the support from our community.”
Mr Mitchell said Australians have shown their support for the party at the polls, and he’s ready to get back to it and deliver the promises the party made.
“We appreciate deeply that the Australian people have given us the opportunity to govern for another three years and to build on the progress we made,” he said.
“They’ve (McEwen voters) given me the greatest honour of my life and to put their trust in me again, I will continue to do what I’ve always done to make sure I deliver on every promise I’ve made.”
