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Parliament of New South Wales Legislative Council election results for 19 March 1988
Election of 19 March 1988
Third of Council to be elected (see note)
Assembly 19 March 1988
3,307,855
3,040,742
Universal suffrage (at 18 years), statewide (at large) voting with a third of the seats to be elected at each election, proportional representation by STV, optional preferences (but a minimum of 10 preferences to be indicated), above the line voting permitted, compulsory voting (see notes)
Elections held in 19 March 1988
Liberal Party - National Party (joint ticket) 10 1,403,300 46.15 +3.54 7 46.67
Australian Labor Party 10 1,140,634 37.51 -9.37 6 40.00 21 46.67
Call to Australia 5 173,569 5.71 -0.38 1 6.67 3 6.67
Australian Democrats 3 82,248 2.70 -0.45 1 6.67 2 4.44
Independent EFF (Enterprise, Freedom & Family) 7 72,965 2.40 * 0
Independents 7 56,388 1.85 +1.44 0
Environment Group 3 48,536 1.60 * 0
Nuclear Disarmament Party 2 28,161 0.93 * 0
Aboriginal Team 3 13,363 0.44 * 0
Humanist Party 2 11,895 0.39 * 0
Defence Ex-Service Team 2 6,970 0.23 * 0
Marijuana Party 2 2,713 0.09 *
Liberal Party 12 26.67
National Party 7 15.56
Totals 56 3,040,742 100.00 15 100.00 45 100.00
Electoral system: The members of the Legislative Council were elected for three Legislative Assembly terms (a maximum of 12 years), a third of the membership (15 members) retiring every Legislative Council election which was held at the same time as general elections for the Assembly. The state was one electoral district (see at large election) and members were elected using proportional representation by the single transferable vote method (STV) with optional preferences above a minimum of 10 ranked candidates; see Clune and Griffith, pp. 503-515, and Twomey, pp. 346-350, (see 'References', below), and Green (in 'Sources', below).
This was the first election which permitted above the line voting for the New South Wales Legislative Council; see Hagan and Clothier, p. 275, (see 'References', below), and Green (see 'Sources', below).
Independents: The introduction of above the line voting for Legislative Council elections required Independent candidates to rethink their electoral strategy; there was now a stronger motivation to form a group of like-minded candidates to benefit from the new system. The candidates and votes shown for Independents for this Legislative Council election in the table above are the 3 candidates of the Community Independents group (52,992 votes), and the votes for 4 other candidates who ran without party or group affiliation in the ungrouped category on the ballot paper (3,396 votes); see Hagan and Clothier, p. 257, (see 'References', below), and note 'Independent EFF', below.
Independent EFF: The 7 candidates of the Independent EFF (Enterprise, Freedom and Family) group although a group of independents (see previous note), could be seen as a quasi-party (Hagan and Clothier, p. 257, see 'References', below), but the candidates maintained an anti-party stance; see Rodney Smith, Against the Machines: Minor Parties and Independents in New South Wales 1910-2006, pp. 96-97 (Sydney: Federation Press, 2006, ISBN 9781862876231). The Independent EFF group ran a joint ticket with other independents at the 1991 Legislative Council Election, but ran again as a separate group in 1995.
Environment Group: This green party grouping followed the Environmental Action group which ran in the 1981 New South Wales Legislative Council Election and was the precursor to the Greens party grouping which contested the following Legislative Council election in 1991.
For a survey of this election and the preceding period, see Jim Hagan and Craig Clothier, '1988', in Michael Hogan and David Clune (editors), The People's Choice: Electoral Politics in 20th Century New South Wales, vol. 3 (1968-1999), pp. 251-281, (Sydney: Parliament of New South Wales and University of Sydney, 2001, ISBN 0909907412); pp. 257, and 275-276, deal with issues directly relating to the Legislative Council election.
Antony Green, Electing the New South Wales Legislative Council 1978 to 1995: Past Results and Future Prospects, (Sydney: New South Wales Parliamentary Library, Background Paper No. 1995/2, ISSN 8017-3796; ISBN 724095686); Colin A Hughes, A Handbook of Australian Government and Politics 1985-1999, pp. 301-302, (Sydney: Federation Press, 2002, ISBN 1862874344).