 At that election, she came closer to taking the seat off the Liberals than any Labor candidate had come before.She managed a swing of six percent to Labor, enough to make this longstanding blue-ribbon Liberal seat marginal against Labor for the first time.McLeod was made an Officer of the Order of Australia in the 2020 Australia Day Honours for "distinguished service to the law, and to the legal profession, at the national and international level, and to women lawyers."