COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA THIRTY-SEVENTH PARLIAMENT ==================================================================== Source: Australian Electoral Commission HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ==================================================================== BY-ELECTIONS ==================================================================== FREMANTLE, WA ==================================================================== Suburban Perth: Cockburn, Coolbelup, Fremantle, Melville -------------------------------------------------------------------- 12 March 1994, following the resignation of Hon John Dawkins -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1993 two-party majority: ALP over Liberal 07.8% -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 74,721 -00.3 Votes cast: 64,144 85.8 -10.2 Informal votes: 1,669 02.6 -00.4 Formal votes: 62,475 97.4 +00.4 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- Raymond Conder 1,506 02.4 Geoff Hourn Lib 23,047 36.9 -01.9 Stephen Walker Grn 5,215 08.4 +01.6 Hon Dr Carmen LAWRENCE + ALP 32,707 52.4 +02.2 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 62,475 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 2nd count: Conder's 1,506 votes distributed -------------------------------------------------------------------- Hourn 715 47.6 23,762 38.0 Walker 608 40.5 5,823 09.3 LAWRENCE + 178 11.9 32,885 52.6 (exhausted 5 5 ) -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 1,506 62,475 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 3rd count: Walker's 5,823 votes distributed -------------------------------------------------------------------- Hourn 1,953 33.6 25,715 41.2 LAWRENCE 3,860 66.4 36,745 58.8 (exhausted 10 15 ) -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 5,823 62,475 08.8 01.0 to ALP -------------------------------------------------------------------- This is the only by-election since Federation in which there has been a two-party swing towards the ALP in an ALP-held seat while an ALP federal government was in office. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Carmen Mary Lawrence (born 1948): Elected 1994 Born: 2 March 1948, Northam, WA Career: Educated University of Western Australia (PhD 1983). Psychologist. Tutor and lecturer, University of Melbourne, Western Australian Institute of Technology, University of Western Australia. State politics: WA MLA Subiaco 1986-89, Glendalough 1989-94. Minister for Education 1989-90, Minister for Aboriginal Affairs 1989-93. Premier 1990-93. Treasurer 1990-93. Minister for Public Sector Management 1990-93. Minister for Women's Interests 1990-93. Minister for the Family 1990-93. Minister for Multicultural and Ethnic Affairs 1990-93. Leader of the Opposition 1993-94. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Minister for Human Services and Health from 25 March 1994 --------------------------------------------------------------------