COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA THIRTY-SEVENTH PARLIAMENT ==================================================================== Source: Australian Electoral Commission HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ==================================================================== BY-ELECTIONS ==================================================================== CANBERRA, ACT ==================================================================== Suburban Canberra: Tharwa, Tuggeranong, Weston Creek, Woden Valley -------------------------------------------------------------------- 25 March 1995, following the resignation of Hon Ros Kelly -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1993 two-party majority: ALP over Liberal 09.6 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 98,622 +03.5 Votes cast: 87,388 88.6 -08.4 Informal votes: 3,095 03.5 +00.6 Formal votes: 84,293 96.5 -00.6 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- Joanne Clarke 2,274 02.7 Sue Robinson + ALP 25,689 30.5 -21.8 Joseph Cotta 1,003 01.2 Robyn Spencer 3,515 04.2 Dr James Warden Grn 10,835 12.9 Brendan Smyth Lib 39,021 46.3 +10.1 Jerzy Gray-Grzeszkiewicz 1,956 02.3 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 84,293 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 2nd count: Cotta's 1,003 votes distributed -------------------------------------------------------------------- Clarke 133 13.3 2,407 02.9 Robinson + 284 28.4 25,973 30.8 Spencer 112 11.2 3,627 04.3 Warden 244 24.4 11,079 13.1 Smyth 122 12.2 39,143 46.4 Gray-Grzeszkiewicz 106 10.6 2,062 02.5 (exhausted 2 2 ) -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 1,003 84,293 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 3rd count: Gray-Grzeszkiewicz's 2,062 votes distributed -------------------------------------------------------------------- Clarke 747 36.3 3,154 03.7 Robinson + 305 14.8 26,278 31.2 Spencer 156 07.6 3,783 04.5 Warden 337 16.4 11,416 13.5 Smyth 514 25.0 39,657 47.1 (exhausted 3 5 ) -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 2,062 84,293 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 4th count: Clarke's 3,154 votes distributed -------------------------------------------------------------------- Robinson + 1,255 39.9 27,533 32.7 Spencer 409 13.0 4,192 05.0 Warden 902 28.7 12,318 14.6 Smyth 580 18.4 40,273 47.7 (exhausted 8 13 ) -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 3,154 84,293 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 5th count: Spencer's 4,192 votes distributed -------------------------------------------------------------------- Robinson + 1,102 26.3 28,635 34.0 Warden 1,480 35.4 13,798 16.4 Smyth 1,602 38.3 41,839 49.7 (exhausted 8 21 ) -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 4,192 84,293 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 6th count: Warden's 13,798 votes distributed -------------------------------------------------------------------- Robinson 7,942 57.7 36,577 43.4 SMYTH 5,833 42.3 47,672 56.6 (exhausted 23 44 ) -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 13,798 84,293 06.6 16.2 to Lib -------------------------------------------------------------------- The two-party swing in this by-election was the largest since the Wakefield by-election of 1938, and the third-largest at any by- election since Federation. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Brendan Smyth (born 1959): Elected 1995 by Born: 27 July 1959, Sydney Career: Newsagent, shop manager. Smyth contested Namadgi in 1996. --------------------------------------------------------------------