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Craig Kelly's bid to become the first United Australia Party-aligned prime minister of Australia appears to be dead in the water as results continue to roll in from his old seat of Hughes.
Kelly, the incumbent MP, who defected from the Liberals to the UAP, is well out of the frame with over 13 per cent of the vote counted. Liberal candidate Jenny Ware has 56.7 per cent of the vote, followed by Labor's Riley Campbell on 43.3 per cent."Now, $70 million at least was spent on the United Australia Party campaign," Nine political editor Chris Uhlmann said.
"Craig Kelly was going to be the United Australia Party's prime minister of Australia, according to all the advertising."