COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA THIRTY-FIFTH PARLIAMENT ==================================================================== Source: Australian Electoral Commission HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ==================================================================== BY-ELECTIONS ==================================================================== GWYDIR, NSW ==================================================================== Northern NSW: Gunnedah, Moree, Walgett, Wee Wah -------------------------------------------------------------------- 15 April 1989, following the resignation of Hon Ralph Hunt -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1987 two-party majority: NPA over ALP 10.3 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 69,709 +01.4 Votes cast: 58,518 84.0 -10.8 Informal votes: 2,768 04.7 +01.2 Formal votes: 55,750 95.3 -01.2 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- John ANDERSON + NPA 31,209 56.0 -01.2 Bevan O'Regan 9,881 17.7 John Uebergang 14,660 26.3 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 55,750 10.4 e -------------------------------------------------------------------- Although it is a requirement of the Electoral Act that preferences be distributed, the Electoral Commission has no record of this having been done for this by-election. The estimated majority assumes that 75% of O'Regan's preferences went to Uebergang. -------------------------------------------------------------------- John Duncan Anderson (born 1956): Elected 1989 by Born: 14 November 1956, Sydney Career: Educated University of Sydney. Farmer and grazier at Tambar Springs, NSW. --------------------------------------------------------------------