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The 2025 Port Macquarie state by-election will take place sometime in 2025 to elect the member for Port Macquarie in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, following the resignation of Liberal Party MP Leslie Williams. [1]
Port Macquarie was created in 1988 and held by the National Party until 2002, when sitting member Rob Oakeshott left the party to become an independent. [2] Oakeshott resigned in 2008 to successfully enter federal politics at the Lyne by-election, and was succeeded by independent Peter Besseling at the 2008 Port Macquarie state by-election. [3]
Besseling lost his seat at the 2011 state election to Nationals candidate Leslie Williams. [4] Williams was re-elected in 2015 and 2019, increasing her primary vote on both occassions. [5]
On 20 September 2020, Williams left the Nationals to join the Liberal Party, citing the "reckless and unreasonable behaviour" of Nationals leader John Barilaro in threatening to end the Coalition and move the party to the crossbench. [6] The Nationals contested Port Macquarie at the 2023 state election, but Williams retained the seat for the Liberals with a two-candidate-preferred vote of 60.8%. [7] [8]
On 22 January 2025, Williams announced that she would resign from parliament. [9] She said she made the decision in order to be closer to her family in Western Australia after the death of her husband, Don Williams, in 2022. [10] [11]
The Liberal Party and the National Party will both contest the by-election. [12]
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