The seat was won by Jamie Briggs of the Liberal Party on a two-candidate preferred vote of 53 per cent against the Greens.

The 2007 Liberal two-party-preferred vote of 57.1 percent was at the time the narrowest in the seat's history.

[4] At the 1998 election the Democrats reduced the Mayo Liberal margin to just 1.7 percent.

[6] He, with Mark Vaile in Lyne, became the next former Howard government ministers returned at the 2007 election to resign their seats.

[22] Bob Day, who had held membership of the Liberal Party for 20 years and was the endorsed Liberal candidate for Makin in 2007, quit the party after failing to win Mayo preselection with 10 out of 271 votes,[23] claiming a "manipulated" preselection process.

[26] The Liberal two-candidate vote of 53 percent against Greens candidate Lynton Vonow compared to the previous election vote of 57.1 percent against Labor,[27] which turned Mayo from a fairly safe seat in to a marginal two-candidate seat.