THE result was never really in doubt in the Bathurst electorate with support for sitting member Paul Toole virtually at every booth, even where in the past it had been Labor heartland.
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With 58.69 per cent of the formal vote (20,998) Mr Toole was slightly more than double the result for Country Labor’s Cassandra Coleman on 28.77 per cent (10,294).
The support for The Greens was up on previous polls but Tracey Carpenter finished with 8.92 per cent (3190).
There was clear air back to the fourth placed Christian Democrat on 2.12 per cent (758) and the No Land Tax candidate who managed to attract 1.50 per cent (537).
Across the electorate there were 7156 pre poll and declaration votes cast.
The only booth where Mr Toole failed to top the poll was at Kandos that had come into this electorate for the first time.
The margin there favoured Ms Coleman 348 to 334.
The narrowest winning margin for Mr Toole was at Portland where he enjoyed a difference of just eight votes.
It will be back to the ballot box next year across the region and across NSW for the four yearly local government elections.
