Liberal MP Tanya Davies who has spoken out against vaccine mandates swung for her

The MP who spoke out against vaccine and abortion mandates was the only incumbent Sydney Liberal to swing towards her in the NSW election and is now running as Deputy Leader.

Badgerys Creek member Tanya Davies challenged the state’s swing toward Labor ending 12 years of coalition rule.

In her overseas constituency in western Sydney, she achieved a swing of 1.1 per cent towards her, with counting so far showing her an overwhelming partisan margin of 60.8 per cent to 39.2 per cent over her Labor opponent.

Formerly known as Mulgwa, its electorate was a very safe seat for Labor until it won it for the Liberal Party in 2011.

Ms Davies is now standing for the deputy leadership of the Liberal Party, arguing that she was the only MP for the party now representing Western Sydney electorates, after losing Parramatta, Penrith and East Hills.

The Liberal Party narrowly leads in Holsworthy.

As the only Liberal left standing in western Sydney with what appears to be a surge of support for me, I believe I can offer much to the NSW Parliamentary Liberal Party and will seek support from my fellow party over the period to come. days and weeks to deputy command.

She noted that there needed to be a clearer difference between the major parties, without mentioning the moderate faction of the Liberal Party’s support for the target of 70 per cent renewable energy by 2035.

“I am committed to ensuring that the Liberal Party offers a clear choice between political parties and addresses the serious concerns of the people of western Sydney and NSW more broadly,” said Ms Davies.

Ms Davies in August 2021 angered former Deputy Prime Minister John Barilaro when she sent out a mass email condemning vaccine mandates for construction workers as Sydneysiders were in lockdown.

“As many of you know, I intend to put out in the party room tomorrow my intention to move a private member bill to protect businesses and employees from forced Covid-19 vaccinations and discrimination based on vaccination status,” she wrote.

In March 2022, an MP from the right-wing faction of the Liberal Party addressed a crowd outside Parliament House in New South Wales, speaking out against vaccination mandates for public sector employees during Dominique Perrottet’s first few months as former prime minister.

“Give us back our freedoms to go and earn an income,” Ms Davies told the gathering.

“I’ve been working with the new prime minister and his office… to give him a chance to get more evidence to say that Covid is not the deadly disease that will kill millions of people in Australia.”

During that speech, she also criticized then-Prime Minister Scott Morrison for betraying the Liberal Party’s ethos of personal freedom and responsibility.

“Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced two weeks ago that we are now living with Covid,” she said.

We are not living with covid if people are not allowed to work and allowed to work.

In April 2019, then-Liberal Prime Minister Gladys Berejikilian defied a bill to decriminalize abortion and resigned as Minister for Women, Mental Health and Ageing.

She spoke at an anti-abortion rally five months later in Sydney.

Its local win is a stark contrast to other contests across Sydney where the Liberal Party lost Parramatta by 15 per cent and Riverston by 12.2 per cent.

Labor is also leading in Ryde in north Sydney, after a swing of 9.2 per cent.

The Liberal Party also lost the safe seat of South Coast, with a swing of 15 percent.

In nearby Kiama, former Liberal minister Gareth Ward is marginally leading Labor candidate Caitlin McInerney after preferences, with 50.8 per cent voting bipartisan despite a series of sex charges being contested.

Mr. Ward is fighting charges of sexual intercourse without consent, three counts of assault by an indecent act, and one count of common assault.

He pleaded not guilty in Nowra County Courthouse on Tuesday to the five counts.

His Liberal opponent Melanie Gibbons came in third with just 11.4 percent, trailing the Greens earlier in the count.

Mr Beirut only announced her as a candidate on March 7 – two weeks before Saturday’s election – after she lost the preselection in Holsworthy, 100km southwest of Sydney.

The Daily Mail Australia has received photographs showing Mr Ward’s campaign team wearing blue Liberal Party shirts and wearing ornate motifs and marquees in the same shade.

Susan Gray, who was distributing her money for Labour, said Ward’s campaign had deceived voters into thinking he was the approved Liberal candidate.

Especially in the first three or four days before the ballot when there were no Liberal signs and in some cases there was either no Liberal volunteer or one shy one just standing at one of the doorways and he was too scared to approach voters because of all the Gareth Ward supporters,” she told the Daily miles australia.

I am a worker and even I am disgusted by this. This is not democracy.

Daily Mail Australia understands that members of the Liberal Party in the state executive, from the dominant moderate faction, have delayed Kiama’s primary, meaning there is no Liberal challenger to Mr Ward until much later.

Mr Ward was suspended from the Legislative Assembly in March last year after he was charged.

He had resigned from the Liberal Party in May 2021, after being part of the moderate faction.

The former Minister for Families, Communities and Disability Services is contesting all charges with police alleging he inappropriately assaulted a 17-year-old boy in Meroo Meadow in 2013 and sexually assaulted a 27-year-old man in Sydney in 2015.

New Labor Prime Minister Chris Minns, who was sworn in on Tuesday, took the 45 seats announced for his party, two short of the 47 needed for a majority in the 93-member Legislative Assembly as counting continues.

Labor previously had a lead in Terrigal, on the central coast, but is now trailing the Liberal Party after more votes were counted.

Ms Davies in 2011 defeated the Labor Party’s Mulgowa candidate, Pro Guillaume, as she was then known.

By the next election in 2015, the Labor candidate, known by her married name of Prue Car, had won the adjacent Londonderry seat and was sworn in on Tuesday as deputy prime minister.

Kyle Kotasi, a former member of the Liberal Party’s state executive, said the party machine sought to force “wake-up” candidates on voters.

“They deliberately ran the clock in the western Sydney and NSW regional primary elections – they tried to force wake candidates,” he told Sky News.

Mr Kotasi said he was kicked out of the Liberal Party after a meeting in November with the Prime Minister’s Office, after he opposed these “awakened” candidates.

He said the party had prioritized saving wealthy voters on Sydney’s north coast and northern beaches, against a threat from teal independents, at the expense of western Sydney and regional areas.

But he noted that liberal candidates campaigning against Covid measures fared best.

“MPs and candidates who have been most outspoken against Covid lockdowns have actually swung towards them or who have very, very small swings against them,” Mr Kotasi said.