THE candidates for next weekend’s state election have been confirmed.
Incumbent Frankston MP Paul Edbrooke is running once again. Edbrooke won the seat for Labor in 2014, and significantly expanded his margin in 2018.
The Liberal candidate for Frankston is former Frankston mayor Michael O’Reilly.
Emily Green is the Greens’ candidate for Frankston. Dragan Suric is running for the Freedom Party, Elizabeth Johnston for the Animal Justice Party, Richard Brown for the Family First Party, and Chrysten Abraham for the Liberal Democrats.
Darren Bergwerf has nominated as an independent. He failed to gain the federal seat of Dunkley earlier this year, but still took to social media to declare himself the winner while sharing false conspiracy theories of electoral fraud. Since then he has been calling himself the “mayor” of Frankston, claiming in video interviews that Frankston Council is “not a council”. Environmentalist Henry Kelsall is also running as an independent in what will be his sixth state election campaign.
The rail line has been a focus of both major party campaigns in Frankston. Labor has pledged to remove all level crossings on the Frankston line by 2029 and build the suburban rail loop which will start on the Frankston line. The Liberals have promised to extend the Frankston line to Baxter at a cost of $971 million and will scrap the $36.5 billion rail loop.
The election is on 26 November.