Craig Kelly seat

For the first time since 2010, the outspoken MP will no longer be the member for Hughes.

The electorate has voted in a Liberal candidate at every election since 1996. After the move, Mr Kelly was thrust back into the public eye when he spammed Australians with messages about adverse vaccine reactions in September 2021. And government responses including lockdowns and vaccination mandates fractured the relationship between Mr Kelly and his former Party. In the last election, it was by a margin of 9.9 per cent and has been a safe Liberal seat. Challenger and winner Ms Ware will replace him. The MP spruiked drugs like ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine, claiming they were useful in preventing or treating COVID-19. It later saw him permanently banned from Facebook. In 2019, the UAP candidate only secured 2.5 per cent of votes in Hughes. While Mr Kelly pushed the party's vote up in this election, Mr Kelly, backed by the UAP, could not put up a tight fight. On the UAP website, Mr Kelly said he had become “disillusioned by the Liberal Party during his time in office" and the pandemic response had "deeply eroded his faith in Australia’s government, as he saw, in real time, our freedoms being ripped away". He initially entered politics as a member of the Liberal Party and was elected into the House of Representatives in 2010 in the seat of Hughes. But since his last success in 2019, the country has dealt with a pandemic. By the end of February 2021, Mr Kelly had quit the Liberal Party to become an independent MP. After a dicey career in the House of Representatives, Craig Kelly has been voted out of his seat of Hughes after more than a decade in the job. He's been described as a "menace" by the Labor Party, has been dressed down by Prime Minister Scott Morrison, and was last month egged by a member of the public.