In this phase, 10 Liberal seats have fallen to Labor, including four where the incumbent retired. These are John Alexander (Bennelong), Nicolle Flint (Boothby), Gladys Liu (Chisholm), Ken Wyatt (Hasluck), Katie Allen (Higgins), Christian Porter (Pearce), Fiona Martin (Reid), Lucy Wicks (Robertson), Steve Irons (Swan) and Ben Morton (Tangney).
Six other Liberal MPs lost their seats to the independents: Celia Hammond (Curtin), Tim Wilson (Goldstein), Josh Frydenberg (Kooyong), Jason Falinski (Mackellar), Trent Zimmerman (North Sydney) and Dave Sharma (Wentworth).
First-term MP Julian Simmonds has lost Ryan to the Greens.
On the part of Labor, in this phase, he has only lost two seats he previously held. Kristina Keneally failed to retain Fowler, where incumbent Chris Hayes retired, and independent Dai Le will now take the seat. And Terri Butler has acknowledged the loss of Brisbane-based Griffith to Max Chandler-Mather of the Greens.
A net loss of at least 17 seats for the Liberals means the Coalition has lost 22 per cent of its seats in the previous parliament. This is similar to the size of the Labor loss when Tony Abbott won the government in 2013.
The difference this time is the huge expansion of the cross bench, more than Labor collecting all the seats lost by the Liberals. However, the combined count of Labor and Progressives in the new parliament will be between 86 and 90 seats, placing him in the realm of Abbott’s 90-seat victory.
The Coalition now has its lowest share of seats as part of parliament since the Liberal Party first ran in the 1946 election. It needs to reach 60 seats to improve, but that is no longer possible. as is the count.
When Labor leader Kevin Rudd defeated John Howard in 2007, the Coalition lost a quarter of its seats with 22 MPs clearing its offices.
And in the change of government when Howard became prime minister in 1996, Labor lost 39 percent of its electorate, from 80 seats to 49.
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