Darren Cameron lauds Marcus Rowland for boosting Labor in Albury

Darren Cameron said Mr Rowland's campaign was the best he had seen in 33 years as a Labor member in Albury and he had built a base for a better future.

"We were on a death spiral frankly," Mr Cameron, an Albury Labor councillor, told the party faithful at an election party on the night of Saturday, March 25.

"We were going from worst result to worst result, lurching from disaster to disaster."

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Mr Cameron singled out candidate Nico Mathews being caught drink-driving days after being endorsed to run for Labor in the 2011 Albury poll as the lowest point.

Incidentally, Mr Mathews spent election day giving flyers for Liberal candidate Justin Clancy at Glenroy's polling booth before attending the MP's victory event.

Mr Rowland, who had hoped to pull Mr Clancy's primary vote below 50 per cent, declined to say if he would stand for Labor at another election.

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