Anoulack Chanthivong celebrates his victory in Macquarie Fields with his supporters.
Their party may have failed to win government, but local Labor MPs Greg Warren and Anoulack Chanthivong have bucked the trend by increasing their majorities in Campbelltown and Macquarie Fields.
Warren looks set to get close to 67 percent of votes on a two party preferred basis, with Anoulack a smidgin less on 66 percent.
Either way the two local MPs have won four more years so convincingly they will surely be part of a new NSW Labor leadership team.
The Liberal candidate in Campbelltown, Riley Munro, the 24 year old lamb to the slaughter, graciously called Greg Warren barely an hour after the voting finished to concede defeat.
Munro received a little under 27 percent of first preference votes in Campbelltown but will end up with around 33 percent two party preferred.
The story is the same in Macquarie Fields, where the Libs fielded a complete unknown in Zahurul Quazi, and who like young Munro was an invisible candidate during the campaign.
Campbelltown MP Greg Warren with two long time Labor members in Macarthur, John and Jan McLaughlin, at his election party in Campbelltown Golf Club tonight.
Across the region not one seat changed hands, with the Liberals surprisingly retaining Wollondilly after their out of area candidate Nathaniel Smith received 64 percent of the two party preferred vote.
Wollondilly council and former mayor Judy Hannan received 21.2 per cent of the primary vote, a remarkable achievement, but it was not enough.
Smith received just 38.7 percent of the primary vote, but looks to have won the seat on preferences, possibly Judy Hannan’s.
In Camden, the Liberals have retained the seat after an early scare, with reports of swings against them of almost 20 percent.
One Nation was getting almost 14 percent of the vote, with high profile independent Andrew Simpson seven percent, Labor’s Sally Quinnell just under 28 percent and Camden Mayor Peter Sidgreaves, the Liberal candidate, just over 45 percent.
In Holsworthy, Liberal Melanie Gibbons has been re-elected with a reduced majority and Labor’s Paul Lynch will also return to State Parliament for the next four years.
Also certain to be elected, to the NSW upper house, is former Labor leader and Macarthur local Mark Latham, who stood under the Pauline Hanson One Nation banner.
