One Nation’s Farrer win is just the latest example of regional NSW voters putting a stick in the eye of the major parties

One Nation’s leader, Pauline Hanson, and the new member for Farrer, David Farley, celebrate their win on Saturday. Photograph: Jesse Thompson/Getty Images

Voters in regional New South Wales have been putting a stick in the eye of major parties for decades.

Before the community independents changed the urban political landscape, rural and regional electorates in the state had elected independents and defectors from the old parties – Peter Andren, Tony Windsor, Rob Oakeshott and Andrew Gee.