7% swing away from Lieberals in Canning by election

They were facing a 10% swing, so I guess I agree with Shorten that it took the beheading of Team Abbott to limit that to about 7%. I dunno what exactly that would mean federally if there was a swing across the nation to that extent but it wouldn't be good for the Lieberals.

The question then is, although Team Abbott's beheading is welcome, has it so poisoned the Lieberal name that a Turnbull takeover of Team Abbott won't be enough to turn the coming federal election to the Lieberals?

Liberal candidate Andrew Hastie has won the Canning by-election, retaining the West Australian seat for the Liberal Party after Malcolm Turnbull’s prime ministerial coup helped defuse voter dissatisfaction with the Coalition Government. 

But at the end of one of the most dramatic weeks in Australian political history, voters sent a warning to Mr Turnbull, with the ALP recording a swing of almost 7 per cent. 

Opposition Leader Bill Shorten said the government sacrificed a PM to hold onto the seat. 

With 52 of 56 polling places returned, Mr Hastie held 54.95 per cent of the two-party preferred vote to Labor’s Matt Keogh on 45.05 per cent. more