Carrum, Mordialloc nominees locked in for election

SEVEN candidates will run for Carrum and eight will run for Mordialloc at next weekend’s state election.

In Carrum, Labor’s Sonya Kilkenny is recontesting the seat. She has been the member for Carrum since 2014. Bec Buchanan is the candidate for the Liberals.

The Greens will also contest Carrum – Jayde Lillico will run for the party. Taylor Macgregor Owen will run for the Animal Justice Party, Jeremy Cameron for the Family First Party, and Georgia Erevnidis for the Freedom Party.

Damian Willis is running for Carrum as an independent and will appear as the first name on the ballot. He ran for Dunkley at this year’s federal election as a Liberal Democrats candidate.

Willis has since aligned himself with independent Frankston candidate Darren Bergwerf.  Bergwerf 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”.

In Mordialloc, incumbent Labor MP Tim Richardson is running for a third term. Phillip Pease is the Liberal candidate.

Two independents are contesting Mordialloc – Sarah O’Donnell has drawn top spot on the ballot and Phil Reid will be the second name on the voting paper.

Chi Vo is the Animal Justice Party’s candidate for Mordialloc. Family First Victoria candidate Patrick Lum, Greens candidate Daniel Lessa, and Freedom Party’s Deborah Albrecht round out the ballot.

First published in the Chelsea Mordialloc Mentone News – 16 November 2022