Liberal candidate Dave Sharma has cast doubt on whether he will contest Wentworth at the next election.
Emergency services were called to a property about 50 kilometres north of Wentworth,near the Murray River,after reports of a light aircraft crash.
This week may be remembered not for the contrast between two types of politics but as one in which Australia promised to do better and showed that it can.
The counting in Wentworth suggests the Liberal Party candidate did much better early in the campaign.
Bleary-eyed Liberals woke up on Sunday morning to Kerryn Phelps doing interviews about her historic win. But by about 9.20am,there was hope.
A swing even as half as big as the one in Wentworth would likely end Tony Abbott's 25-year career in Parliament.
Senior Liberals want Dave Sharma to contest Wentworth at the general election if the party loses the blue-ribbon seat today.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison has assured voters Dave Sharma is in the same league as their former MP,Malcolm Turnbull.
Malcolm Turnbull has flown out of New York but he will not be in Sydney to see voters go to the polls in his former seat.
It was a rare slip-up from Labor candidate Tim Murray as he paraded his wares alongside rival candidates for the once safe Liberal seat.
Liberal candidate for Wentworth Dave Sharma says he accepts the science on climate change and is appalled by the way his party treated Malcolm Turnbull.