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By Mara Pattison-
The policeman, turned baker, turned politician is keen to get back out in the community and start implementing the Coalition’s promises.
Mr Battin, 34, said it was “an unexpected but good win” and he was pleased with the result.
“For the first time in my life I can say that I am mentally fatigued from the campaigning, but I am looking forward to the challenges ahead,” he said.
As The Mail went to press the Brumby Government had not yet conceded defeat after the State Election on Saturday 27 November, but more than 30,000 voters had decided the result for Gembrook.
The Liberal Party took the seat back after 11 years of Labor power, with a 13.76 per cent margin in Mr Battin’s favour.
On a two-party preferred basis, 56.15 per cent of the vote went to the Coalition, with the ALP polling 43.85 per cent of votes.
Mr Battin watched the tally on Saturday night at Berwick Bowling Club and said it wasn’t until 7.30pm that he started to get an indication of the results.
“It was one of relief, the first booth that came in had an 18 per cent swing in Officer,” he said.
Mr Battin said he looked forward to rolling out the Liberals’ promises, including a 24-hour police station for Emerald, and 24-hour ambulance cover for Belgrave, Yarra Junction and Emerald, over four years, and duplicating Cardinia Road.
“Obviously we’ve got some fantastic policies to get through, abolishing the country bus fare along Warburton Highway, getting gas to Warburton, and working on what the community wants,” he said.
Mr Battin said Tammy Lobato had done a tremendous job in Gembrook.
“Our polling shows that Tammy had quite a strong hold in Gembrook and she needs to be congratulated for what she’s done,” he said.
Meanwhile local divisions of the ALP are mourning the defeat of Ms Lobato.
Millgrove resident Bob Lillie, who has been a member of the ALP since 1980, said he was not surprised at the result but it reflected the state.
“Unfortunately for Tammy, this time around people voted across the line, across the state,” he said.
Mr Lillie, speaking from his personal viewpoint, said there were too many big issues running against Labor.
“In Warburton there was the gas, she tried to move heaven and earth to get it going, but Brad Battin made that promise,” he said.
Mr Lillie said he had been tracking the votes in the Upper Yarra for 20 years, and believed people were more inclined to vote Liberal than Labor between Woori Yallock and Warburton.
“In the 1992 election, Millgrove held the only votes for Labor,” he said.
“The only thing that scares me this time is if they get 44 seats each.”
Tammy Lobato was contacted by The Mail, but has chosen not to respond to the media.
For voters from Seville and Wandin, sitting Evelyn Liberal MP Christine Fyffe has regained her seat on the back of a massive swing to the Coalition.
Elected to State Parliament in 1999, Ms Fyffe held office until 2002 and then fought back to regain the seat of Evelyn in 2006 by a margin of 2.81 per cent and after the weekend’s polls that number had skyrocketed to 12.5 per cent.