Election night - Felix Ellis - video Dailymotion

We caught up with Braddon Liberal MP Felix Ellis on election night. Here's what he had to say.

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00:00How are you feeling?

00:01Good, we've had a great start. It's really encouraging.

00:03I mean, we've had amazing feedback from right across our community over the last five weeks.

00:09And it's encouraging to see how the numbers are falling so far.

00:13Obviously a long night ahead, but yeah, it's a really good start for us.

00:16And we've got a goal of winning a majority of seats here in Braddon,

00:19and we've started off really strong on that track.

00:22And like you said, it is still early days and there's a long night ahead.

00:25Are you concerned you're going to lose your seats?

00:27Well, look, we've had an incredible result here in Braddon.

00:30So I'm really encouraged by that.

00:32We'll see the booths come in.

00:34What I can say, though, on the other side,

00:36is this is a clear rejection of the kind of deals and division

00:40that Dean Winter has brought to the Parliament.

00:43The fact that this has blown up so badly in Labor's face already

00:46is a sign that Tasmanians have rejected that sort of stuff.

00:49We've seen massive swings towards us in some rural booths already in Braddon.

00:54Dean Winter hasn't visited large parts of our electorate.

00:57He didn't bother with the Bass Strait Islands.

00:59And if you want to be Premier for everyone,

01:01you need to do what Jeremy Rockwith does,

01:02and that's be present, serve,

01:05and make sure that you know what's going on on the ground.