Mate he finished third, there are plenty in parliament who finished second and got in on a dodgy preference deal, dr Karen Phelps comes to mind I’m sure there are others she got 29% of the vote the other bloke got 41 and she got in,is that democracy?
She ended up with 51% in the Two-candidate-preferred result, which is how the winner of each seat in the House of Representatives is decided and it's far more democratic than First Past the Post.

