ACROSS Greater Lithgow as elsewhere across the Bathurst electorate there was solid support for the sitting Nationals member Paul Toole in Saturday’s election.
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It was always going to be a two horse race between the Nationals and Labor but while Labor improved their showing since the 2011 election the result was never in doubt.
The Greens also improved their vote but were never going to be a serious threat to the mainstream parties, particularly in a mining community.
So just how did we vote?
The booth by booth figures released by the Electoral Office up to 3pm yesterday told the story:
(The figures are in the order they appeared on the ballot paper, Rigby CDP, Coleman ALP, Toole NP, Carpenter Greens, Cripps No Land Tax).
BOWENFELS: 8, 83, 151, 16, 5.
CAPERTEE: 2., 28, 78, 7, 1.
COOERWULL: 46, 737, 904, 91, 34.
CULLEN BULLEN: 5, 69, 88, 3, 6.
FATIMA HALL: 16, 323, 376, 26, 18.
GLEN ALICE: 0, 12, 56, 9, 2.
HAMPTON: 3, 22, 66, 23, 3.
HARTLEY: 11, 122, 263, 63, 5.
HERMITAGE HALL: 10, 206, 249, 30, 8.
ILFORD: 7, 26, 105, 14, 3.
LITHGOW PUBLIC: 28, 536, 651, 126, 23.
MEADOW FLAT: 5, 49, 104, 27, 3.
PORTLAND: 16, 487, 494, 47, 12.
RYLSTONE: 14, 165, 417, 46, 11.
WALLERAWANG: 43, 442, 510, 43, 28.
ZIG ZAG: 7, 130, 147, 12, 2.
TOTAL (including absentee votes): Rigby 634, Coleman, 8686, Toole 18485, Carpenter 2954, Cripps 463.
The counting of thousands of pre poll votes was continuing yesterday.
