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Feb. 7, 2015, 4:52 p.m.

The region's federal Liberals have said they will vote no in the leadership spill on Tuesday, but the man with most to lose has been conspicuously tight-lipped.

The region's federal Liberals have said they will vote no in the leadership spill onTuesday, but the man with most to lose has been conspicuously tight-lipped.

As fellow first-termers Zed Seselja and Hume MP Angus Taylor said on Saturday they would vote no, the holder of the bellwether seat of Eden-Monaro, Peter Hendy, said nothing.

Dr Hendy won the seat by 1085 votes in 2013 and would be likelyto lose itif the Abbott-led Coalition's severe drop in the polls continued.

Mr Taylor, who won in Hume by a far more comfortable margin - with 61 per cent of the two-party preferred vote - said it was no time to be testing leadership numbers.

"Leadership spills are seductive but rarely effective," he said.

"We've got a history of them in recent years on both sides of politics in Australia and frankly they haven't worked for the benefit of the country or the benefit of the party."

Mr Taylor would not be drawn on the "hypothetical" question of who he would back if the spill motion was successful.

"We don't have an alternative candidate," he said.

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