<div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The </span><a href="http://9news.com.au/new-south-wales" rel="" target="" title="NSW"><span>NSW</span></a><span> </span><a href="http://9news.com.au/liberals" rel="" target="" title="Liberal Party"><span>Liberal Party</span></a><span> has announced it will challenge the incredibly tight vote result that took the Sydney seat of Bradfield out of its grasp for the first time.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/federal-election-2025-results-nicolette-boele-wins-bradfield-recount-gisele-kapterian/2cb89ee4-74ae-45d9-a6bf-3d3d6766603b" rel="" target="" title=""><span>Teal independent Nicolette Boele edged out Gisele Kapterian by just 26 votes</span></a><span> to claim the wealthy electorate in a see-sawing result that wasn't confirmed until weeks after the May </span><a href="http://9news.com.au/federal-election-2025" rel="" target="" title="federal election"><span>federal election</span></a><span>.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Kapterian had initially been declared the winner by eight votes, which would have been one of the tightest races in Australian political history, before a full recount made Boele the first non-Liberal MP to represent the northern Sydney seat in its 75-year history.</span></div></div><div><div id="adspot-mobile-medium"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/corellas-poisoned-springvale-melbourne-rspca-investigating/865788be-47fd-4323-85ee-3e2a33494ebb"><strong><span>Hundreds of dead birds fall from the sky</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Kapterian this evening said the party would "go to the umpire" after careful consideration of the different counts.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"Over 118,000 ballots were cast by the people of Bradfield. The original count resulted in an 8 vote lead my way, while the second count resulted in a 26 vote lead for Ms Boele," she said, in a statement posted to social media.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"Today's decision is taken to ensure the intentions of the voters of Bradfield are accurately reflected in the final count."</span></div></div><div><div class="OUTBRAIN" data-reactroot="" data-src="//www.9news.com.au/national/gisele-kapterian-nicolette-boele-liberals-to-launch-court-challenge-of-bradfield-election-result/055e86a2-9f97-49b3-9233-45bc9845728f" data-widget-id="AR_5"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Kapterian said there was "no question regarding the integrity of our electoral system" and the process had "only served to reaffirm my faith in Australia's democratic institutions".</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>She said the challenge, expected to be presented to the Court of Disputed Returns tomorrow, would "provide collective confidence that the final result reflects the true wishes of the voters in Bradfield and remove any remaining doubt".</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/missing-backpacker-wa-carolina-wilga-statement/3b13b816-8ec2-41a7-9e71-86184fbcea9e"><strong><span>Rescued backpacker reveals why she abandoned car</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"In this instance a final arbiter does exactly what the AEC officials were doing throughout the count: they look at a ballot paper to determine matters like whether a number is legible, or whether a 5 is an 8 etc. </span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"We are requesting a targeted final examination of a small number of 'line ball' ballots that were reserved and considered by the Australian Electoral Officer during the counts."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Boele was yet to comment tonight.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/how-to-follow-9news-digital/29855bb1-ad3d-4c38-bc25-3cb52af1216f"><em><strong><span>DOWNLOAD THE 9NEWS APP</span></strong></em></a><em><strong><span>: Stay across all the latest in breaking news, sport, politics and the weather via our news app and get notifications sent straight to your smartphone. 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