Mr Hamilton said while members were backing Ms George "100 per cent" if she wanted to stay, a resolution was passed that "active members of the branch believe they should be given a right to a say over who should be leading us in the future".

Mr Hamilton said the meeting at the Albion Park Bowling Club attracted "a fair turnout for this time of year" with many angered by the comments of the Australian Workers Union Port Kembla branch secretary and Labor Party member Andy Gillespie.

Last week Mr Gillespie told the Mercury his factional Right opponents were hypocrites to "whinge" about the installation of Mr Jones in Throsby after backing the "parachuting in of people like Lylea McMahon into Shellharbour" in the past.

Mr Hamilton said branch members felt Mr Gillespie was displaying a turnaround of his own.

"Andy Gillespie was very boisterous against Lylea McMahon getting parachuted in and boisterous against Sharon Bird getting Cunningham when (Greens candidate) Michael Organ got elected," Mr Hamilton said.

He said anyone who lived outside the Throsby electorate like Mr Jones would not be excluded in a pre-selection process.

With the Gilmore electorate shifting north the Albion Park-Oak Flats ALP branch will have a say in both seats in 2010.

Former Labor candidate Neil Reilly has declared his intention to stand against sitting Liberal MP Jo Gash, but Mr Hamilton said members expected a pre-selection process for Gilmore.