Election Results
| Melbourne state by-election, 2012 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Greens | Cathy Oke | 10,197 | 36.52 | +4.60 | |
| Labor | Jennifer Kanis | 9,321 | 33.38 | –2.29 | |
| Sex Party | Fiona Patten | 1,832 | 6.56 | +3.67 | |
| Independent | Stephen Mayne | 1,325 | 4.74 | +4.74 | |
| Independent | David Nolte | 1,302 | 4.66 | +4.66 | |
| Independent | Berhan Ahmed | 1,127 | 4.04 | +4.04 | |
| Family First | Ashley Fenn | 841 | 3.01 | +3.01 | |
| Democratic Labor | Michael Murphy | 521 | 1.87 | +1.87 | |
| Christians | Maria Bengtsson | 342 | 1.22 | +1.22 | |
| Independent | Joseph Toscano | 208 | 0.74 | +0.74 | |
| Independent | Kate Borland | 207 | 0.74 | +0.74 | |
| Independent | Adrian Whitehead | 169 | 0.61 | +0.61 | |
| Independent | Patrick O'Connor | 162 | 0.58 | +0.58 | |
| Independent | David Collyer | 160 | 0.57 | +0.57 | |
| Independent | John Perkins | 145 | 0.52 | –0.03 | |
| Independent | Gerrit Schorel-Hlavka | 66 | 0.24 | +0.24 | |
| Total formal votes | 27,925 | 90.66 | –5.65 | ||
| Informal votes | 2,878 | 9.34 | +5.65 | ||
| Turnout | 30,803 | 68.62 | –18.31 | ||
| Two-candidate-preferred result | |||||
| Labor | Jennifer Kanis | 14,384 | 51.51 | –4.66 | |
| Greens | Cathy Oke | 13,541 | 48.49 | +4.66 | |
| Labor hold | Swing | –4.66 | |||
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