Early voting popular in by-elections
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More than 50,000 people have already voted ahead of five federal by-elections being held on Saturday.
Early voting has been most popular in the Queensland seat of Longman, where 22,060 people have already cast a ballot, just days out from polling day - up 20 per cent on the same period at the 2016 federal election.
In the South Australian seat of Mayo, 13,003 people have already voted, with 6580 turning out in Tasmania's Braddon.
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Fremantle and Perth have registered 4540 and 4969 early votes respectively.
About 40,000 postal vote applications have also been received.
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