One Nation has convincingly won the Farrah by-election with an expected two-party preferred result of around 58.3 per cent, leaving the Liberal Party with its worst ever result in a seat it held for 77 years.
From the beginning, Sky News tally board had Farley well ahead of second-placed Teal candidate Michelle Milthorpe on 40.8%. Farley’s first preference tally was 23,924 or 40.2% of the vote and Milthorpe’s 14,759 and 25.9%. Farley won on a massive 35.4% swing against the Liberal Party.
The Liberals’ Raissa Butkowski came in third with an unimpressive 6570 votes or 11.5% just ahead of the Nationals’ Brad Robertson with 5488 votes or 9.6%, meaning a combined Liberal-National Party vote was beaten by a Teal.
The win is also historic for Farley, being the first ever One Nation candidate elected to the House of Representatives. One Nation leader Senator Pauline Hanson previously served as an independent in the House of Representatives for two years from 1996-98 after being tossed out of the Liberal Party by leader John Howard for opposing Asian immigration.
Farley campaigned against the Murray Darling Water Plan, mass immigration, housing shortages, renewable energy, food security, and dilution of our culture by population transfers from the Middle East.
Claiming victory he told the 800-strong crowd of supporters he would be fighting for each and every one of them and his victory was one of many more to come.
He thanked his army of workers, Pauline Hanson and Barnaby Joyce for helping with his campaign and said he had been “very humbled to represent Farrah.
“We must start making our future not for someone else.”
