Farren Hotham
26 April 2025, 3:40 PM
It won’t come as an real surprise but Nationals candidate Jamie Chaffey is holding an unassailable lead heading into Saturdays Federal Election according to the latest You Gov Poll.
Projections give him a 64.3% of the vote in a two horse race against Labor’s Nathan Fell, both candidates have spent time at Pre-Polling Centres at Dubbo and Broken Hill.
Nationals Candidate Chaffey is expected to suffer a small swing of 3.5 to his Labor opponent the poll predicts but he says pre-poll voting has been large.
‘’Despite some rain at the pre-poll centre people have given me a warm reception here and Broken Hill.’’ He said.
Mr Chaffey has been traversing the electorate since he was pre-selected by Nationals members in August last year.
He has campaigned on better Healthcare, Aged Care and Child Care for the biggest seat in NSW, covering 50% of the land area.
Nathan Fell in Broken Hill. IMAGE: facebook
Nathan Fell says supporting mining communities in the electorate is important.
Candidates from the Shooters and Fishers (Stephen Pope ) Mark Carter, Pauline Hanson’s One Nation, Trish Frail, Greens, Petrus Van Der Steen , Trump of Patriots, Bob Wilson, Indigenous -Aboriginal Indigenous Party , Maurice Davey Family First, Sally Edwards make up the list.
In 2022 Sitting MP Mark Coulton won with 49.3% primary votes with ALP’s Jack Ayoub obtaining 20.2.
The seat takes up a mammoth 406,765 square kilometres 3 times the size of neighbouring of the second largest electorate Farrar.