Electoral results for the district of Northern Rivers
Appearance
This is a list of electoral results for the Electoral district of Northern Rivers in Western Australian state elections.
Members for Northern Rivers
[edit]Member | Party | Term | |
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Kevin Leahy | Labor | 1989–1996 |
Election results
[edit]Elections in the 1990s
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labor | Kevin Leahy | 4,307 | 46.1 | −4.5 | |
Liberal | Dudley Maslen | 3,657 | 39.2 | −10.2 | |
National | Paquita Boston | 677 | 7.2 | +7.2 | |
Greens | Lorraine Hatchwell | 424 | 4.5 | +4.5 | |
Democrats | Jill Bond | 159 | 1.7 | +1.7 | |
Independent | Nabil Rowland | 115 | 1.2 | +1.2 | |
Total formal votes | 9,339 | 96.2 | −1.6 | ||
Informal votes | 372 | 3.8 | +1.6 | ||
Turnout | 9,711 | 89.0 | +5.8 | ||
Two-party-preferred result | |||||
Labor | Kevin Leahy | 4,835 | 51.8 | +1.2 | |
Liberal | Dudley Maslen | 4,504 | 48.2 | −1.2 | |
Labor hold | Swing | +1.2 |
Elections in the 1980s
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labor | Kevin Leahy | 4,392 | 50.6 | −3.0 | |
Liberal | Dudley Maslen | 4,284 | 49.4 | +4.5 | |
Total formal votes | 8,676 | 97.8 | |||
Informal votes | 193 | 2.2 | |||
Turnout | 8,869 | 83.2 | |||
Labor hold | Swing | −3.8 |
References
[edit]- ^ Prescott, David Black with the assistance of Valerie (1997). Election statistics : Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, 1890-1996. Perth, [W.A.]: Western Australian Parliamentary History Project and Western Australian Electoral Commission. ISBN 0730984095.