COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA THIRTY-SIXTH PARLIAMENT ==================================================================== Source: Australian Electoral Commission HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ==================================================================== BY-ELECTIONS ==================================================================== MENZIES, Vic ==================================================================== Suburban Melbourne: Bulleen, Doncaster, Donvale, Templestowe -------------------------------------------------------------------- 11 May 1991, following the resignation of Hon Neil Brown -------------------------------------------------------------------- two-party majority: Liberal over ALP 14.3 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 72,518 +02.2 Votes cast: 62,417 86.1 -10.5 Informal votes: 3,103 05.0 +01.9 Formal votes: 59,314 95.0 -01.9 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- Kevin ANDREWS + Lib 40,154 67.7 +09.3 Denis McCormack 4,055 06.8 Jim Bernard 2,035 03.4 Ken Peak AD 13,070 22.0 +10.4 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 59,314 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Result after distribution of Bernard's and McCormack's votes -------------------------------------------------------------------- ANDREWS 42,719 72.0 Peak 16,578 28.0 (exhausted 17 ) -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 59,314 22.0 -------------------------------------------------------------------- The Australian Electoral Commission does not appear to have preserved a record of the distribution of Bernard's preferences. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Kevin James Andrews (born 1955): Elected 1991 by Born: 9 November 1955, Sale, Victoria Career: Educated Melbourne University, Monash University. Barrister and solicitor. Co-ordinator, Continuing Legal Education, Law Institute of Victoria. Associate to Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria. --------------------------------------------------------------------