What happens when a candidate is dumped during an election campaign?

Can the candidate still run? Can the party choose someone else? All you need to know about candidate disendorsements

Every campaign will have exploding candidates but this year has been particularly spectacular.

Disendorsements have occurred over comments that are homophobic, Islamophobic, sexist and racist. The most novel example surely goes to Corio Liberal candidate Murray Angus, who was disendorsed, partly for calling his Labor opponent a “good bloke”.

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