2001 Aston by-election
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Background
The by-election was an important test for the Liberal Party. The federal Liberal government had introduced a controversial Goods and Services Tax just over a year before, and unpopular sentiment surrounding the government and its GST were believed to have led to the defeat of the Coalition in Western Australia and Queensland state elections in landslides.[1] The Liberals had also lost the seat of Ryan in a recent by-election, and the ALP led by Kim Beazley was ahead in opinion polls.
Results
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| Template:Australian party style | | Template:Australian politics/name | Chris Pearce | 31,640 | 40.73 | Script error: No such module "MultiReplace". |
| Template:Australian party style | | Template:Australian politics/name | Kieran Boland | 28,716 | 36.96 | Script error: No such module "MultiReplace". |
| Template:Australian party style | | Template:Australian politics/name | Pierre Harcourt | 6,271 | 8.07 | Script error: No such module "MultiReplace". |
| Template:Australian party style | | Template:Australian politics/name | Garry Scates | 3,401 | 4.38 | Script error: No such module "MultiReplace". |
| Template:Australian party style | | Template:Australian politics/name | Mick Kir | 1,877 | 2.42 | Script error: No such module "MultiReplace". |
| Template:Australian party style | | Template:Australian politics/name | June Scott | 1,369 | 1.76 | Script error: No such module "MultiReplace". |
| Template:Australian party style | | Template:Australian politics/name | Peter O'Loughlin | 1,160 | 1.49 | Script error: No such module "MultiReplace". |
| Template:Australian party style | | Template:Australian politics/name | Graeme Dunstan | 711 | 0.92 | Script error: No such module "MultiReplace". |
| Template:Australian party style | | Template:Australian politics/name | Luke James Chamberlain | 680 | 0.88 | Script error: No such module "MultiReplace". |
| Template:Australian party style | | Template:Australian politics/name | Mark Sloan | 618 | 0.80 | Script error: No such module "MultiReplace". |
| Template:Australian party style | | Template:Australian politics/name | Doug Mitchell | 334 | 0.43 | Script error: No such module "MultiReplace". |
| Josephine Cox | 328 | 0.42 | Script error: No such module "String". | ||
| Template:Australian party style | | Template:Australian politics/name | Steve Raskovy | 227 | 0.29 | Script error: No such module "MultiReplace". |
| Template:Australian party style | | Template:Australian politics/name | Tim Petherbridge | 232 | 0.30 | Script error: No such module "MultiReplace". |
| Mark Ward | 126 | 0.16 | Script error: No such module "String". | ||
| Total formal votes | 77,690 | 94.16 | Script error: No such module "String". | ||
| Informal votes | 4,819 | 5.84 | Script error: No such module "String". | ||
| Turnout | 82,509 | 92.54 | Script error: No such module "String". | ||
| Template:Australian party style | | Template:Australian politics/name | Chris Pearce | 39,299 | 50.58 | Script error: No such module "MultiReplace". |
| Template:Australian party style | | Template:Australian politics/name | Kieran Boland | 38,391 | 49.42 | 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
Chris Pearce won the by-election, retaining Aston for the Liberal Party, but suffering a swing of 3.66%. Prime Minister John Howard appeared on the first episode of the ABC program Insiders the next day, where he suggested that Labor's electoral momentum had been held in check, and the government was back in the game:
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I believe that the Government is well and truly back in the game. If there were an unstoppable momentum for Labor to win the federal election, they'd have rolled us over in Aston.
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The Howard government reportedly spent $700,000 on political advertising in the lead-up to the by-election.[2]
See also
References
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- ↑ a b Coorey, Phillip: No glorious July for PM this year, The Sydney Morning Herald, 13 July 2007.
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External links
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