9.20PM: The fortunes of anti-glbt candidates are so far rather a mixed bag, with some polling poorly in tonight's election, a few doing rather better and a high-profile candidate comfortably on track to take his electorate. National’s Jonathan Young, a former Church Minister who says homosexuality is a choice and who strongly objects to it being seen as a "normal alternative" has a slight lead in New Plymouth, by almost 1,000 votes, with just over a quarter of the vote counted. Stephen Franks, who was a thorn in the flesh of the campaign for Civil Unions is cirrently losing to gay candidate Grant Robertson by a very slim margin in Wellington Central, with 20% of the vote counted. The conservative Christian-based Family Party, headed by former Destiny Church party leader Richard Lewis, who led Destiny to a brutal defeat at the last election, is getting just 0.27% of the total party vote so far. Even the joke Bill
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First published: Saturday, 8th November 2008 - 9:05pm