Adelaide by-election, 1988
A by-election was held for the Australian House of Representatives seat of Adelaide on 6 February 1988. This was triggered by the resignation of Labor Party MP Chris Hurford to become Australia's Consul-General in New York.
The election was won by Liberal Party candidate Mike Pratt with an 8.4 percent two-party swing on a 1.9 percent margin.
Candidates
- Independent – Bronwyn Mewett.
- Independent – Peter Consandine, republican campaigner who later founded the Republican Party of Australia.
- Independent – Michael Brander.
- Independent – John Litten.
- Australian Democrats – Ian McLeish.
- Unite Australia Party – Dorothy McGregor-Dey, who contested Mayo for the party in 1987.
- National Party of Australia – Bryan Stokes, the party's 1987 candidate.
- Australian Labor Party – Don Farrell, assistant secretary of the Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees Association (SDA). Farrell was later influential in the South Australian Labor Party, and served in the Senate from 2008 to 2014. He was named one of the "faceless men" that removed Kevin Rudd and replaced him as Prime Minister with Julia Gillard in 2010 sparking a leadership war between Rudd and Gillard which ended with Rudd taking his revenge on Gillard in his successful comeback in 2013. The Rudd-Gillard leadership war would perhaps have been avoided if Farrell had won the Adelaide by-election in 1988.
- Liberal Party of Australia – Mike Pratt, a local farmer.
Results
| Adelaide by-election, 1988[1] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Liberal | Mike Pratt | 26,777 | 44.4 | +8.9 | |
| Labor | Don Farrell | 22,897 | 38.0 | -10.9 | |
| Democrats | Ian McLeish | 7,097 | 11.8 | +2.7 | |
| Independent | Bronwyn Mewett | 1,408 | 2.3 | +2.3 | |
| National | Bryan Stokes | 1,000 | 1.7 | -3.4 | |
| Independent | Michael Brander | 409 | 0.9 | +0.9 | |
| Independent | John Litten | 367 | 0.6 | +0.6 | |
| Unite Australia | Dorothy McGregor-Dey | 218 | 0.4 | +0.4 | |
| Independent | Peter Consandine | 104 | 0.2 | +0.2 | |
| Total formal votes | 60,277 | 96.1 | |||
| Informal votes | 2,432 | 3.9 | |||
| Turnout | 62,709 | 88.0 | |||
| Two-party-preferred result | |||||
| Liberal | Mike Pratt | 31,195 | 51.9 | +8.4 | |
| Labor | Don Farrell | 28,967 | 48.2 | -8.4 | |
| Liberal gain from Labor | Swing | +8.4 | |||
See also
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