The district threw its majority support behind the incumbent Nationals candidate at the weekend's federal election.
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Results from each polling booth released on Sunday by the Australian Electoral Commission revealed National's Michael McCormack as a clear favourite.
The count at Junee's Athenium Theatre held The Nationals at 55.68 per cent of the overall.
Meanwhile, in Junee, Labor's Mark Jeffreson trailed with 23.31 per cent, The Greens' Michael Bayles took 4.56 per cent and United Australia Party's Richard Foley claimed 11.08 per cent.
Of the overall turn out, 5.37 per cent of voters in Junee returned an informal vote.
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An even stronger distinction sat between the candidates in the count of votes from Illabo Public School polling centre.
Mr McCormack took 75.74 per cent of Illabo's vote, making it one of the highest votes in favour of the government across the Riverina.
Labor received a 11.83 per cent slice of Illabo's vote. The Greens took 2.37 per cent, and United Australia Party saw 7.1 per cent.
A further 2.96 per cent of those who turned up to vote in Illabo returned an informal vote.
Across the region, the highest support for The Nationals was registered at Tallimba.
While the lowest vote for The Nationals was felt at the Sydney booth for people voting outside their electorate. Both Mr McCormack and Mr Jeffreson received 40 votes there.
Mr Jeffreson recorded his best results at Young, Cootamundra, Gundagai, Harden and Tolland with between 31 and 37 per cent of the vote.
United Australia Party's best location was at Collingullie, at 16 per cent, and the Greens fared best at Wagga South Public School at 13.5 per cent.
The turnout rate was about 84 per cent of more than 114,000 people enrolled.