The voters of Kiama have cast their ballots and Labor now faces an anxious wait to see if it has won over supporters of the popular MP turned convicted rapist Gareth Ward, whose imprisonment triggered Saturday’s byelection.

A win for Labor’s Katelin McInerney, the frontrunner, would be a feat not seen in NSW since 1996 – the flipping of a seat in a byelection that goes for, rather than against, the government.

McInerney was supported on Saturday by an admittedly “nervous” Premier Chris Minns at Albion Park, where she made her final pitch to voters.

“This is a community that I love and one that I will absolutely fight for,” she said.

Liberal Serena Copley was left to fend for herself in her final press conference – Liberal Leader Mark Speakman chose to instead hit some voting booths sep

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