{"id":783952,"date":"2026-05-09T09:30:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T09:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/783952\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T09:30:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T09:30:16","slug":"farrer-byelection-results-live-updates-one-nation-take-strong-lead-as-votes-roll-in-for-former-opposition-leader-sussan-leys-regional-nsw-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/783952\/","title":{"rendered":"Farrer byelection results LIVE updates: One Nation take strong lead as votes roll in for former opposition leader Sussan Ley\u2019s regional NSW seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>National Party leader Matt Canavan has predicted a swing towards his party in the Farrer byelection, as it makes its first appearance on a Farrer ballot since 2001.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur brand hasn\u2019t been on billboards and the like. So it\u2019s been a superhuman effort from our campaign to reintroduce ourselves to this part of the world,\u201d Canavan told the ABC shortly after polls closed.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Nationals leader Matt Canavan and candidate Brad Robertson in Albury yesterday. \" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/2f8300b26e9787f5e941560510ea176a1d6cf657.jpeg\"  class=\"sc-d34e428-1 ldCIuB\"\/>Nationals leader Matt Canavan and candidate Brad Robertson in Albury yesterday. Janie Barrett<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany people here do fondly remember Tim Fisher, who was the member 25 years ago, a great leader of the Nationals Party. So we have had a pretty welcoming reception.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Canavan said voters were \u201cdisillusioned with politics and the political class\u201d and claimed responsibility for that phenomenon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a new leader of the Nationals Party, I thought it was very important that I come here and hear directly from the people, take it on the chin, and, yes, certainly I\u2019ve got that feedback about how things haven\u2019t been going the way people want,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been even more important to hear that directly from so many voters,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"National Party leader Matt Canavan has predicted a swing towards his party in the Farrer byelection, as it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":783953,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4740,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-783952","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116543922587080450","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=783952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/783953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=783952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=783952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=783952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}