1995 Canberra by-election
Template:Use Australian English Template:Use dmy dates Script error: No such module "infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". The 1995 Canberra by-election was held in the Australian electorate of Canberra in Australian Capital Territory on 25 March 1995. The by-election was triggered by the resignation of the sitting member, the Australian Labor Party's Ros Kelly on 30 January 1995. The writ for the by-election was issued on 17 February 1995.[1][2]
The by-election was won by Liberal Party candidate Brendan Smyth, making it the first (and currently the only) by-election in the ACT to have been won by the Liberal Party.
The by-election took place in the shadow of the "sports rorts" affair which resulted in Kelly's resignation as a minister.
Smyth would later contest the new seat of Namadgi at the 1996 election but was defeated. Subsequent to his career in Federal Parliament, Smyth became leader of the ACT Liberal Party from 2002 to 2006.
This was the last by election that the Liberal Party took a seat off of another party.
Results
Template:Election box 2pp| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | <templatestyles src="Template:Tooltip/styles.css" />±%Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | |
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| Template:Australian party style | | Template:Australian politics/name | Brendan Smyth | 39,021 | 46.29 | Script error: No such module "MultiReplace". |
| Template:Australian party style | | Template:Australian politics/name | Sue Robinson | 25,689 | 30.48 | Script error: No such module "MultiReplace". |
| Template:Australian party style | | Template:Australian politics/name | James Warden | 10,835 | 12.85 | Script error: No such module "MultiReplace". |
| Template:Australian party style | | Template:Australian politics/name | Robyn Spencer | 3,515 | 4.17 | Script error: No such module "MultiReplace". |
| Template:Australian party style | | Template:Australian politics/name | Joanne Clarke | 2,274 | 2.70 | Script error: No such module "MultiReplace". |
| Template:Australian party style | | Template:Australian politics/name | Jerzy Gray-Grzeszkiewicz | 1,956 | 2.32 | Script error: No such module "MultiReplace". |
| Template:Australian party style | | Template:Australian politics/name | Joseph Cotta | 1,003 | 1.19 | Script error: No such module "MultiReplace". |
| Total formal votes | 84,293 | 96.46 | Script error: No such module "String". | ||
| Informal votes | 3,095 | 3.54 | Script error: No such module "String". | ||
| Turnout | 87,388 | 88.57 | Script error: No such module "String". | ||
| Template:Australian party style | | Template:Australian politics/name | Brendan Smyth | 47,672 | 56.58 | Script error: No such module "MultiReplace". |
| Template:Australian party style | | Template:Australian politics/name | Sue Robinson | 36,577 | 43.42 | Script error: No such module "MultiReplace". |
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Opinion polling
Voting intention
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| 25 March 1995 | 1995 by-election | — | 84,293 | 46.29% | 30.48% | 12.85% | 4.17% | 6.21% | — | 56.58% | 43.42% | |
| 27 February−2 March 1995 | Internal Labor polling[5] | 505 | 40.2% | 30.7% | 9.0% | — | 11%Template:Efn | 5% | — | — | ||
| 18 February 1995 | Liberal Party wins ACT election with 7 seats | |||||||||||
| 28 January−7 February 1995 | Canberra Times/Datacol[6][7] | Telephone | 916 | 29% | 38% | 3% | — | 4%Template:Efn | 26% | — | — | |
| 13 March 1993 | 1993 election[8] | — | 92,382 | 36.22% | 52.26% | 3.46% | — | 8.05%Template:Efn | — | 40.44% | Template:Australian party shading/Labor | 59.56% | |
See also
Notes
References
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- ↑ Canberra (ACT) By-Election (25 March 1995)
- ↑ 1993 ACT election results: Adam Carr electoral archive
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