WATCH: Calare's Nationals candidate, Sam Farraway, says he is waiting for all the votes to be counted as it looks likely incumbent Andrew Gee will retain the seat.
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00:00Ladies and gentlemen, the reality is we don't really have a result tonight.
00:04And we don't have a result because 52% of the voters in Calair have pre-cult.
00:10So over half of the electorate has voted earlier.
00:15Those votes are going to take time to count.
00:18I suspect we're going to be counting for a couple of days
00:21to determine what the result will be.
00:25I said from the beginning that this was a huge contest in Calair
00:29and that is good for democracy.
00:31So I still maintain that because people have had choice.
00:35They've had a real contest in our Alastricht and our region.
00:42What we're comparing is it will come down to preferences.
00:45It always was. It was always going to come down to preferences.
00:49But I suspect the seat will come down to the wire.
00:53So respectfully, I'm going to wait until every single vote is counted.
00:58I think every candidate that ran in this election should do the same
01:01because let's see what ends up in the final wash.
01:05But what I do want to say is this was a team effort.
01:10This was a team effort.
01:11We demonstrated, whatever the result is, that the National Party is solid in Calair,
01:17is solid in the Central West, and it doesn't matter, win or lose.
01:22We are here to represent rural and regional Australia,
01:25and that includes the Central West, that includes Calair,
01:28and whatever the result, we're going to continue to do that.
01:31We're going to focus on this one.
01:32And here's the division of our region,
01:34you have to focus on this one.
01:36We had a great job on the phone.
01:37And you can look at the students who are wearing one.
01:38We're going to focus on this one.
01:39We're going to focus on this one.
01:40And now we have to focus on today's agenda.
01:42We can focus on that one.
01:44We're going to focus on this one.