For the first five months of 2022, Alex Dyson spent hundreds of hours travelling across Wannon, meeting with a huge variety of people. His team synthesised these consultations together with the key priorities from What Wannon Wants into a sophisticated campaign platform.

With the support of a large number of volunteers and a highly motivated campaign team, Alex’s campaign gained significant interest and attention.

The election was held on 21 May 2022 and the result in Wannon was so close that it was not clear who would be successful for many days. Alex gained 20% of the primary vote and forced the count to preferences - an amazing result!

Despite our community independent not being successful at the 2022 election, it became apparent that there was a huge groundswell of support for Alex’s positive, inclusive and consultative way of doing politics.

Wannon is now a marginal seat!

Who knows what this may lead to in the future?