Leader of the New South Wales Liberal Party

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The position of Leader of the New South Wales Liberal Party is one of the more senior positions in Australian state politics, but also the one with the highest failure rate and the highest turnover. The New South Wales branch of the Liberal Party of Australia was founded in 1945, but in the 62 years since its foundation the party has won only six state elections to the Australian Labor Party's 13, and has spent only 18 years in office (1965 to 1976 and 1988 to 1995) to Labor's 44. The majority of the 19 Liberal Leaders have been deposed, either after losing elections or when their colleagues determined they could not win an election. Their average tenure of office has been only 3.3 years. Only five have become Premier of New South Wales, and of those only two (Askin and Greiner) have actually won a state election.

[edit] Leaders of the New South Wales Parliamentary Liberal Party