MEMBER for Wagga Daryl Maguire was preparing for government yesterday for the first time in 12 years in politics after being part of the most one-sided election win in NSW history.Mr Maguire is poised for another absolute majority win, his third in a row after entering politics as a Liberal Party candidate in 1999, although his win was not the same slashing victory as enjoyed by many other Coalition candidates in the rush to government.The victory means the Liberal Party is set to represent Wagga for an unbroken 58 years from the time Wal Fife won the seat in 1957.Mr Maguire will be one of at least 65 Coalition members in the new government, with Labor expected to be reduced to less than 20 in the 93-seat Parliament.At the close of counting on Saturday night, Mr Maguire had polled 52.5 per cent (17,289) of the 33,806 votes counted.In a massive blow to the Labor Party, but reflective of the bloodbath across NSW, its Wagga candidate Glenn-Elliott Rudder registered just 3426 votes (10.4 per cent), a drop of about 20 per cent from previous voting trends.Independent candidate, Dr Joe McGirr, polled strongly to finish second with 10,370 votes so far (31.3 per cent), while Greens candidate Ros Prangnell also lost ground from the last election to poll 1045 votes (3.2 per cent) and the Christian Democratic Party’s Sylvia Mulholland received 826 votes (2.5 per cent).Elsewhere in the region, Coalition candidates also romped home in Albury (Greg Aplin, Liberal), Murrumbidgee (Adrian Piccoli, Nationals) and Burrinjuck (Katrina Hodgkinson, Nationals).Before claiming victory at 8.30pm on Saturday, Mr Maguire vowed the Coalition’s promise to complete the total redevelopment of Wagga Base Hospital would be honoured.“The games are over, let’s work together, no more sniping from the sidelines,” Mr Maguire said.“I say to those pople who have been campaigning hard for the hospital: ‘get behind the Liberal/Nationals, get behind this project and let’s make it work.”In his victory speech, Mr Maguire said: “I won’t let you down, the Liberal/Nationals Coalition will not let you down.”Dr McGirr described his result as exceptional and took credit for making the hospital redevelopment “front and centre” of the election campaign in Wagga.Mr Elliott-Rudder suffered the same fate as many other Labor candidates in NSW and blamed scandals and changing leadership for voters wanting to dump the party after 16 years in government.The Greens’ primary vote in Wagga was more than halved from 8 per cent in 2007 to just over 3 per cent.Ms Prangnell attributed her poor polling to people “voting for the hospital”.