1988 North Shore state by-election

A by-election was held for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly electorate of North Shore on 5 November 1988 because of the resignation of the independent member Ted Mack,[1] shortly before he became entitled to a parliamentary pension.[2]

The North Shore by-election was held the same day as the Port Stephens by-election.

Dates
Date Event
16 September 1988 Resignation of Ted Mack.[1]
17 October 1988 Writ of election issued by the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly.[3]
21 October 1988 Nominations
5 November 1988 Polling day
25 November 1988 Return of writ

Results
1988 North Shore by-election [2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Independent Robyn Read 11,523 51.8
Liberal Jillian Skinner 7,913 35.6 -1.5
Labor Kirk McKenzie 1,625 7.3
Democrats Burnum Burnum 718 3.2
Nuclear Disarmament Robert Wood 462 2.1
Total formal votes 22,241 98.2 +0.2
Informal votes 402 1.8 -0.2
Turnout 22,643 70.1 -19.1
Two-candidate-preferred result
Independent Robyn Read 13,838 63.0
Liberal Jillian Skinner 8,129 37.0 -3.1 [lower-alpha 1]
Independent hold Swing
gollark: I find it hard to assume that any government actually has a coherent plan in mind, but somehow it seems to me unlikely that this sort of system of "let's monitor everything everyone says and does and have no transparency about it" is actually for anyone else's good.
gollark: i.e. "put security holes in your products but they're not actually allowed to be 'systemic weaknesses' and also you're not allowed to tell anyone".
gollark: No, they passed that stupid "Assistance and Access" law.
gollark: Well, the whole thing of "let's GET RID OF ENCRYPTION we're so smart TERRORISTS" is really a political issue.
gollark: I did say "non-proud UK-dweller", you know.

See also

Notes
  1. compared to the two-candidate-preferred result for the 1988 North Shore election.

References
  1. "Mr (Ted) Edward Carrington Mack (1933–2018)". Former Members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 13 May 2019.
  2. Green, Antony. "1988 North Shore by-election". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 13 November 2019.
  3. "Writ of election: North Shore". New South Wales Government Gazette (156). 17 October 1988. p. 5468. Retrieved 13 November 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.