Original sentence: In the 2006 Queensland state election, the party contested four seats of the total 89, and its vote collapsed.Its only remaining seat in the state (and country), Tablelands, was retained with an increased majority.Oldfield, a councillor on Manly Council in suburban Sydney and at one time an employee of Liberal minister Tony Abbott, was the organisational architect of the new party
Edited sentence: Despite this, their only remaining seat in the state (and country), Tablelands, was retained with an increased majority.In the 2006 Queensland state election, the party's vote collapsed, largely because it only contested 4 seats of the total 89.Oldfield, a Councillor on Manly Council in suburban Sydney and at one time an employee of Liberal minister Tony Abbott, was the organisational architect of the new party