While Phil Donato was swiftly declared a winner on Saturday night his campaign manager Brett Cooke faces a nervous wait to see if he will join him in parliament.
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Mr Cooke is number two on the Shoooters Fishers and Farmers party's upper house ticket. They have won at least one seat however Mr Cooke said his chances would likely come down to the allocation of preferences.
He said it might take two weeks before he knew.
"We've just got the tortuous process of the long, slow counting," he said.
If Mr Cooke is elected, giving the SFF three seats with Robert Borsak already holding a seat from the previous parliament, the SFF would likely hold the balance of power in the upper house.
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