Wyatt Roy
The youngest ever MP to enter parliament, assistant innovation minister Wyatt Roy, has been a surprise loser this election. The 26-year-old looks set to lose the Queensland seat of Longman after Labor’s Susan Lamb claimed victory. He had held the seat by a comfortable margin of 6.9 per cent.
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Jamie Briggs
Former Junior Minister Jamie Briggs was forced to resign from his position after an incident with a public servant while on a diplomatic trip to Hong Kong. He has now lost his South Australian seat of Mayo to Nick Xenophon Team candidate Rebekah Sharkie.
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Sophie Mirabella
Sophie Mirabella hoped to win back her regional Victorian seat of Indi this election after losing it to Independent Cathy McGowan at the 2013 election.
As the results came in, however, it was clear that Mirabella was coming up short. Current results show Cathy McGowan received a swing towards her of three per cent.
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Tony Windsor
Independent Tony Windsor resigned in the last election, allowing current Nationals Leader and Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce to take the reins in the regional NSW seat of New England. Despite high hopes and knife-edge opinion polls, Mr Joyce has retained his seat and will return to Parliament.
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Rob Oakeshott
Independent and former National Rob Oakeshott resigned after the 2013 election, but recently announced he would contest the seat of Cowper. Despite some promising polls, he failed to dislodge sitting Nationals MP Luke Hartsuyker.
Robert Oakeshott speak/s during a National Press Club in 2010 in Canberra, Australia.
James Mathison
Former Australian Idol Host James Mathison launched his bid to take on Tony Abbott to a skeptical media and a lot of headlines. The results so far show Mathison coming in fourth with just over 11 per cent of the vote, after Mr Abbott, and the Labor and Greens candidates.
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Malcolm Turnbull
Perhaps the biggest loser of the election was Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull. The PM called an early double dissolution election in the hopes of securing a more stable cross-bench in the senate and capitalising on his initial popularity. That appears to have failed.
While Mr Turnbull said he was confident the coalition would retain government, if it does, it will do so with a narrow majority, or even within a hung parliament. Facing a divided party before the election, his leadership will likely face troubled waters. Conservative columnist and TV host Andrew Bolt has already called for him to resign.
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