Kristina Keneally party room ballot, winning by 47 votes to 21. The Keneally Government went on to suffer a 16.5% swing statewide at the 2011 state election – the biggest swing in Australian political history. She was replaced as leader of the Labor Party by John Robertson, who was elected unopposed, on 31 March 2011. She resigned from parliament in June 2012. In 2014, Keneally joined Sky News Live as a political commentator, later becoming co-host of "To The Point". She took leave in November 2017 to stand as the Labor candidate for the Bennelong by-election, which she lost to previous member
Kristina Keneally enough primary votes to win without the need for preferences. With Labor's defeat beyond doubt, Keneally resigned as premier and state Labor leader on election night and announced she would return to the backbench. Accepting responsibility for the worst defeat of a sitting government in NSW's history, Keneally said, "The truth is the people of NSW, who entrusted us with government for 16 years, did not leave us. We left them." On 11 June 2011, Keneally was granted by the Governor retention of the title "The Honourable". On 23 June 2012, Keneally announced her resignation from the New South Wales