It's a Labor wipeout like you've never seen before.
An ABC analysis of Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) data from the seat of Fowler has revealed how independent Dai Le swept to victory.
The Fairfield Deputy Mayor overturned Labor's 14 per cent margin in the Sydney seat, and outpolled her high-profile opponent, Kristina Keneally, in two thirds of the booths.
Preferences carried Ms Le over the line to reach 52 per cent of the two-candidate preferred vote.
This map shows where Labor won most of its votes in the 2019 federal election when it claimed the seat comfortably.
Fowler had been held by Labor since its creation in 1984, until Ms Le's victory at the weekend.
This map outlines where the independent was most popular on a two-party preferred basis.
With more than 75 per cent of the votes counted, roughly 22,000 people gave their first preference to Ms Le, whose family left Vietnam for Australia in the 1970s.
That was almost as many as the 26,000 who voted for Ms Keneally, a former NSW premier and federal senator who was parachuted in to the seat despite living elsewhere.
Ms Le said Labor paid a price for that "arrogant" decision.
"So I think a lot of, especially the Labor voters, they thought it was a slap in the face, it was an insult to them," She told ABC News Breakfast on Monday.
Ms Le won the two-candidate preferred vote right across the electorate, including around the fringes such as Chipping Norton, Abbotsbury and Newbridge Heights, where the Coalition was dominant in 2019.
Data from the 2019 federal election showed that Labor won nearly nine in 10 polling booths against the Coalition in 2019.
In many of those areas, the Labor two-party preferred vote was about 70 to 80 per cent.
Only around Liverpool did Labor's support hold up this time around, but it tumbled from about 65 to just 40 per cent around Mount Pritchard.
Charles Gream has lived in Cabramatta for 52 years and was "disappointed" but not surprised with the results.
"I would have preferred someone else, but we’ve got to get on with it now," he said.
Mr Gream has supported the Labor Party in the past and said the decision to parachute in Ms Keneally was the "death blow" for the party in the area.
"Had they run Tu Le, I would have no trouble voting for her, the problem was Kristina was not one of us."
Tu Le, also from a Vietnamese family, was a former staffer and the preferred candidate of Chris Hayes, the Labor MP who retired from Fowler this election.
Tom Murphy, a 62 year old who has lived in the electorate for 33 years, typically votes Liberal.
But he said he wanted to send a message to both parties that their candidates must be local.
"I was just disgusted that the Labor Party had the nerve to bring somebody in over the local Labor (candidate) Tu Le. That just annoyed me something fierce," he said.
He said he hoped Dai Le could use her sway in parliament "so one day we can actually get something form the government for our community".
Ms Keneally conceded defeat on Twitter on Sunday.
"At the end of today, it seems that Labor will not claim victory in Fowler," she said.
"I congratulate Dai Le and wish her well.
"Thank you to the people who voted Labor & the volunteers on our campaign. And congratulations to Albo & Labor — a better future for Australia lies ahead."
