1996 Lindsay by-election
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Background
Jackie Kelly won the seat of Lindsay from Labor's Ross Free at the 1996 federal election – a surprise win as Lindsay was considered a safe Labor seat.[1] However, Kelly's election was challenged on two counts: that she had not renounced her New Zealand citizenship (Section 44 of the Australian Constitution states that "a subject or citizen of a foreign power" is ineligible to stand for federal parliament),[2] and that at the time of her nomination as a candidate she was employed as a legal officer for the Royal Australian Air Force (s. 44 also prohibits any person who "holds any office of profit under the Crown" from election to parliament).[3] The Court of Disputed Returns ruled on 11 September 1996 that Kelly's election was indeed constitutionally invalid, and a by-election was called several days later. Kelly, by this time, had resigned from the RAAF and renounced her New Zealand citizenship, and was eligible to stand as a candidate in the by-election.
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 | Jackie Kelly | 34,840 | 49.21 | Script error: No such module "MultiReplace". |
| Template:Australian party style | | Template:Australian politics/name | Ross Free | 23,758 | 33.56 | Script error: No such module "MultiReplace". |
| Template:Australian party style | | Template:Australian politics/name | Vince Townsend | 4,224 | 5.97 | Script error: No such module "MultiReplace". |
| Template:Australian party style | | Template:Australian politics/name | Rodney Franich | 2,042 | 2.88 | Script error: No such module "MultiReplace". |
| Template:Australian party style | | Template:Australian politics/name | Lesley Edwards | 1,502 | 2.12 | Script error: No such module "MultiReplace". |
| Template:Australian party style | | Template:Australian politics/name | Brian Grigg | 1,254 | 1.77 | Script error: No such module "MultiReplace". |
| Template:Australian party style | | Template:Australian politics/name | Stephen Lear | 1,182 | 1.67 | Script error: No such module "MultiReplace". |
| Template:Australian party style | | Template:Australian politics/name | Kay Anne Vella | 933 | 1.32 | Script error: No such module "MultiReplace". |
| Template:Australian party style | | Template:Australian politics/name | Vicki Aird | 488 | 0.69 | Script error: No such module "MultiReplace". |
| Template:Australian party style | | Template:Australian politics/name | Steve Grim-Reaper | 270 | 0.38 | Script error: No such module "MultiReplace". |
| Template:Australian party style | | Template:Australian politics/name | Robert Frank Peacey | 156 | 0.22 | Script error: No such module "MultiReplace". |
| Template:Australian party style | | Template:Australian politics/name | David Archibald | 150 | 0.21 | Script error: No such module "MultiReplace". |
| Total formal votes | 70,799 | 96.36 | Script error: No such module "String". | ||
| Informal votes | 2,678 | 3.64 | Script error: No such module "String". | ||
| Turnout | 73,477 | 89.98 | Script error: No such module "String". | ||
| Template:Australian party style | | Template:Australian politics/name | Jackie Kelly | 40,037 | 56.55 | Script error: No such module "MultiReplace". |
| Template:Australian party style | | Template:Australian politics/name | Ross Free | 30,762 | 43.45 | Script error: No such module "MultiReplace". |
| Template:Australian party style | | Template:Australian politics/name hold | Swing | Script error: No such module "MultiReplace". | ||
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Aftermath
Jackie Kelly won the by-election with an even larger majority – a swing of 4.97% in her favour.
See also
References
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- ↑ Election 2007 Guide - Retiring MPs, Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
- ↑ Mckeown, Dierdre: Changes in the Australian Oath of Citizenship, Parliament of Australia, 19 November 2002.
- ↑ Holland, Ian: Section 44 of the Constitution Template:Webarchive, Parliament of Australia, March 2002.
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External links
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