Seems like a respected, well liked public official who enjoys broad support amongst his constituents. Which makes him a gold-plated unicorn these days. Innocent until proven guilty still applies, so we’ll see. I wouldn’t be surprised if he won.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Ryan Bayldon-Lumsden smiles and greets voters by name as they enter the pre-poll booth on the Gold Coast’s Runaway Bay.

As a group of voters walk into the polls, one of Bayldon-Lumsden’s opponents, Joe Wilkinson, calls out: “Make sure you vote for someone who can actually represent you.”

The former disability worker is accused of murdering his stepfather, 58-year-old Robert Malcolm Lumsden, at the family’s Arundel home on 23 August.

But most voters Guardian Australia spoke to at the early voting centre were either unaware or unfazed by the cloud surrounding his campaign.

In an extraordinary move, the candidates for division 7 united to publish a joint statement last December raising concern about the possibility of Bayldon-Lumsden being re-elected.

In a Facebook post, state LNP MP Sam O’Connor, whose electorate of Bonney overlaps with much of division 7, agreed that re-electing Bayldon-Lumsden was “too much of a risk”.

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