Returning Victorian premier Daniel Andrews says ugly political campaigning must end

Premier puts Labor's electoral success down to listening to the community rather than partisan commentary

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Victoria's premier, Daniel Andrews, has described Labor's third consecutive election win as a rejection of the politics of division, while vowing to rebuild trust with voters in the outer suburbs who abandoned the party.

Labor is on track to win more than 50 of 88 lower house seats and could yet exceed the 55 it won at the 2018 Danslide" election, despite its primary vote dropping by about 6% and swings of more than 15% in Melbourne's northern and western outer suburbs.

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