Election Results
| New South Wales state election, 2011: Port Macquarie | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| National | Leslie Williams | 23,718 | 52.2 | +32.7 | |
| Independent | Peter Besseling | 16,601 | 36.5 | -30.6 | |
| Labor | Peter Alley | 2,573 | 5.7 | -3.5 | |
| Greens | Drusi Megget | 1,651 | 3.6 | +0.9 | |
| Christian Democrats | Robert Waldron | 937 | 2.1 | +2.1 | |
| Total formal votes | 45,480 | 98.1 | -0.7 | ||
| Informal votes | 889 | 1.9 | +0.7 | ||
| Turnout | 46,369 | 93.8 | |||
| Two-candidate-preferred result | |||||
| National | Leslie Williams | 24,378 | 56.5 | +34.7 | |
| Independent | Peter Besseling | 18,774 | 43.5 | -34.7 | |
| National gain from Independent | Swing | +34.7 | |||
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