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Coromandel Critical As Labour Set For Victory
With 3.3% of the vote counted the percentages in the party vote have been fairly static for around an hour now and a Labour/Alliance/Green coalition appears to have a majority of around six seats.
However with the Greens on 4.8% - under the 5% threshold – and National’s Murray McLean ahead in the crucial seat of Coromandel we are still headed for a nail-biter yet.
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