Liberal MPs yet to concede to teal independents as outcomes hinge on postal votes
by Paul Karp from World news | The Guardian on (#5ZGG4)
Tim Wilson and Josh Frydenberg maintain theoretical path to victory despite being thousands of votes behind
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Several Liberal MPs who appear to have lost to independents - including Tim Wilson, Josh Frydenberg and Trent Zimmerman - are yet to concede, as record postal votes leave the incumbents a theoretical path to victory.
Despite independents leading with margins of at least 4,000 votes in the blue-ribbon inner-city seats of Goldstein and Kooyong in Melbourne, as well as North Sydney, the incumbent MPs are yet to concede the apparent teal sweep that may wipe out a generation of moderate Liberals.
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