Election Results
| Australian federal election, 2010: Melbourne Ports | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labor | Michael Danby | 32,391 | 38.19 | -4.28 | |
| Liberal | Kevin Ekendahl | 32,057 | 37.79 | -1.89 | |
| Greens | Sue Plowright | 17,528 | 20.66 | +5.63 | |
| Sex Party | Christian Vega | 1,851 | 2.18 | +2.18 | |
| Family First | Daniel Emmerson | 632 | 0.75 | -0.10 | |
| Secular | Gregory Storer | 362 | 0.43 | +0.43 | |
| Total formal votes | 84,821 | 96.75 | -1.09 | ||
| Informal votes | 2,848 | 3.25 | +1.09 | ||
| Turnout | 87,669 | 89.67 | -2.05 | ||
| Two-party-preferred result | |||||
| Labor | Michael Danby | 48,819 | 57.56 | +0.41 | |
| Liberal | Kevin Ekendahl | 36,002 | 42.44 | -0.41 | |
| Labor hold | Swing | +0.41 | |||
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