BOTH Mallee and Wannon electorates have voted in favour of marriage equality.
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More than 78,000 people voted in Mallee overall, representing 78.8 per cent of the electorate.
Of those who voted yes or no, 42,495 – 54.3 per cent – supported same-sex marriage.
Mallee had the six-lowest percentage of yes votes of Victoria’s 37 electorates.
Of the 78,649 people who voted, 359 people returned forms that could not be interpreted as a yes or no response, and their responses were therefore not counted.
More than 81,000 people voted in Wannon – 81.4 per cent of the electorate.
More than 49,000 people – 61 per cent – voted yes.
Of the 81,212 surveys returned, 343 were deemed ineligible to be counted.
Nationwide, 61.6 per cent of survey respondents supported same sex-marriage.
In Victoria, 64.9 per cent of people voted yes.
Melbourne had the highest number of yes voters in Victoria with 83.7 per cent.
