This is the second time Dr Read, a Brunswick resident for two decades, has run for the seat. In 2014 he lost to former emergency services minister Jane Garrett, who took 52 per cent of the vote.
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Ms O'Connor, a union organiser, was preselected as the Labor candidate for Brunswick after Ms Garrett decided to move to Victoria's upper house.
Dr Read has been a sexual health doctor for the past 20 years after heading to Darwin in 1999 to work with AIDS and HIV-infected patients.
He has campaigned to permanently remove car parking from Sydney Road in Brunswick and Coburg.
The spaces previously occupied by cars would instead be freed up for bike lanes that would be permanently separated from traffic to encourage cycling.
The Greens have also pulled ahead in counting in Prahran, with Sam Hibbins 5844 votes ahead of the Liberals' Katie Allen at midday on Saturday.
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