Enderronian federal election, 1982

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1978 ← 	16 October 1982 	16 October 1982 	→ 1986
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All 125 seats in the Enderronian Parliament63 seats needed for a majority	All 125 seats in the Enderronian Parliament63 seats needed for a majority	All 125 seats in the Enderronian Parliament63 seats needed for a majority	All 125 seats in the Enderronian Parliament63 seats needed for a majority
Turnout 	12,401,713 (91.24%) ( 0.40pp) 	12,401,713 (91.24%) ( 0.40pp) 	12,401,713 (91.24%) ( 0.40pp)
 	 	 	
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Leader 	James Thorpe 	Mike Behrens 	George Sanders
Party 	Social Democrats 	United 	National
Leader since 	12 November 1979 	27 March 1979 	25 October 1977
Leader's seat 	Kingscliffe (JZ) 	Wolseley (NS) 	Mount Gilbert (MA)
Last election 	67 seats, 40.24% 	52 seats, 36.22% 	3 seats, 6.56%
Seats won 	70 	45 	8
Seat change 	3 	7 	5
Popular vote 	5,451,793 	3,780,042 	1,007,020
Percentage 	43.96% 	30.48% 	8.12%
Swing 	3.72pp 	5.74pp 	1.56pp
TPP 	53.03% 	46.97% 	
TPP swing 	0.70pp 	0.70pp 	
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Winning party by electorate 	Winning party by electorate 	Winning party by electorate 	Winning party by electorate
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Prime Minister before election 	Prime Minister before election 	Elected Prime Minister 	Elected Prime Minister
James ThorpeSocial Democrats 	James ThorpeSocial Democrats 	James ThorpeSocial Democrats 	James ThorpeSocial Democrats
A federal election was held in Enderron on Saturday 16 October 1982 to elect the 125 members of the 10th Enderronian Parliament.
The incumbent third-term Social Democratic Party government, led by Prime Minister James Thorpe, was re-elected with a slightly increased majority, defeating the opposition United Party, led by Mike Behrens.
The governing Social Democratic Party had a troubled third term in government. The prime ministership changed twice; Calvin Rhinehart, who had served as Prime Minister since 1970, lost the confidence of the caucus in May 1979 and was replaced by Treasurer William Watt. After serving just six months, Watt was assassinated in November, and succeeded by Thorpe. The government also had to deal with the impacts of the 1979 oil crisis and the subsequent economic recession. However, Thorpe remained personally popular, and maintained an uncontroversial, technocratic image. At age 41, he was at the time the youngest person in Enderronian history to be appointed prime minister, and represented a generational change in the Social Democrats' leadership.
The opposition United Party had been led by Mike Behrens since the resignation of Martin Crowley in March 1979, and had seen a shift in its policies which was considered more centrist than usual. In a change to previous party policy, the United Party presented an economically liberal platform focused on job creation and financial deregulation.
By the start of the election campaign, the Social Democrats and United had been virtually neck-and-neck in opinion polling for two years. A number of gaffes by Behrens and United Party candidates, coupled by strong ground campaigning from the Social Democrats, enabled the government to gain momentum in the final weeks of the campaign, eventually prevailing and even slightly increasing its majority.
The right-wing Enderron National Party, led by George Sanders, took advantage of the increasing dissatisfaction with both major parties among rural voters, and won eight seats (a gain of five); this remains the National Party's best result in terms of proportion of seats in parliament. In particular, the party gained support among traditionally conservative voters who disliked the United Party's newfound fondness for economic liberalism. The United Party ended up winning zero seats in Northern Enderron, marking the only time a major party was completely shut out of an entire region at an election. The National Party won three of Miranda's four seats in parliament, which makes the 1982 election the most recent election in which a party other than the SDP or United (and its successor parties) won a majority of seats in a particular prefecture.
The Conservative Party lost its sole seat when the electorate of Lowe, held by future leader Jonathan Bowen, was abolished in a redistribution and Bowen was unable to win in the nearby electorate of Eltham.
This election marked the first time women and Asian Enderronians made up more than 10 percent of the incoming parliament, with 16 and 14 MPs elected respectively.
As of 2022, this is the most recent election where the Social Democratic Party won a seat in modern-day Avalon.
==Results==
↓ 	↓	↓ 	↓
70 	2	8 	45
Social Democrats	I	Nat	United
 	 	 	 	 	 	
Party 	Party 	Votes 	% 	Swing 	Seats 	+/−
 	Social Democrats 	5,451,793 	43.96 	3.72 	70 	3
 	United 	3,780,042 	30.48 	5.74 	45 	7
 	New Democratic 	1,091,351 	8.80 	1.19 	0 	0
 	National 	1,007,020 	8.12 	1.56 	8 	5
 	Conservative 	385,693 	3.11 	0.03 	0 	1
 	Other 	685,815 	5.53 	1.62 	2 	0
Two-party-preferred vote	Two-party-preferred vote	Two-party-preferred vote	Two-party-preferred vote	Two-party-preferred vote	Two-party-preferred vote	Two-party-preferred vote
 	Social Democrats 	6,576,628 	53.03 	0.70 	70 	3
 	United 	5,825,085 	46.97 	0.70 	45 	7
Total 	Total 	12,401,713 	100 	 	125 	
Independents: Frank Blackburn, Maxwell Lee
===Results by prefecture===
Party 	Party 	Party 	PL	WE	NS	CO	TJ	WS	JZ	LS	FL	KA	MA	LR	NC	SY	SA	GB 	Total
rowspan="2"	Social Democrats	Seats: 	11	11	7 	6 	9 	3 	8 	5 	1 	3 	1 	0 	3 	2 	0 	0 	70
Vote: 	Social Democrats	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	43.96	
rowspan="2"	United 	Seats: 	8 	6 	7 	6 	3 	7 	1 	0 	4 	0 	0 	3 	0 	0 	0 	0 	45
Vote: 	United 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	30.48	
rowspan="2"	National 	Seats: 	0 	0 	0 	0 	0 	0 	0 	1 	1 	1 	3 	0 	0 	0 	1 	1 	8
Vote: 	National 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	8.12 	
rowspan="2"	Other 	Seats: 	1 	1 	0 	0 	0 	0 	0 	0 	0 	0 	0 	0 	0 	0 	0 	2 	
Vote: 	Other 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	17.44	
Total seats	Total seats 	Total seats	20	18	14	12	12	10	9 	6 	6 	4 	4 	3 	3 	2 	1 	1 	125
===Results by region===
Party 	Party 	Party 	Central	West	East	North	Total
rowspan="2"	Social Democrats	Seats: 	37 	10 	15 	8 	70
Vote: 	Social Democrats	 	 	 	 	43.96	
rowspan="2"	United 	Seats: 	25 	17 	3 	0 	45
Vote: 	United 	 	 	 	 	30.48	
rowspan="2"	National 	Seats: 	0 	1 	3 	4 	8
Vote: 	National 	 	 	 	 	8.12 	
rowspan="2"	Other 	Seats: 	2 	0 	0 	0 	2
Vote: 	Other 	 	 	 	 	17.44	
Total seats	Total seats 	Total seats	64 	28 	21 	12 	125
===Seats changing hands===
Seat 	Pre-1982	Pre-1982 	Pre-1982 	Pre-1982	Swing	Post-1982	Post-1982 	Post-1982 	Post-1982
Seat 	Party 	Party 	Member 	Margin 	Swing	Margin 	Member 	Party 	Party
Barris, WE 	 	Social Democrats	Christopher Ottley 	0.27 	4.68 	4.41 	Kevin Everest 	United 	
Chung'an, LS 	 	United 	Sam Florey 	3.49* 	14.56	11.07 	Andy Tao 	Social Democrats	
Cook, PL 	 	United 	Charles Edwards 	0.35 	0.89 	0.54 	Colin McDonough 	Social Democrats	
Cowper, WS 	 	Social Democrats	notional – new seat	2.37 	4.40 	2.03 	Melissa Hartsuyker 	United 	
Duyfken, SY 	 	United 	Neil Osbourne-Groom	0.26 	2.44 	2.18 	Sean Tsang 	Social Democrats	
Eltham, WE 	 	Social Democrats	Dylan Collins 	2.12 	3.35 	1.23 	Ted Jean 	United 	
Forrest, MA 	 	United 	William Wells 	4.34 	7.66 	3.32 	Doug Fuller 	National 	
Greenberg, GB 	 	United 	notional – new seat	9.43 	16.18	6.75 	Michael Paxton 	National 	
Heathbridge, WE 	 	Social Democrats	C. B. Madison 	9.01 	9.04 	0.03 	Maxwell Lee 	Independent 	
Jingcheng, LS 	 	Social Democrats	Lillian Atkins 	9.66 	11.51	1.85 	Nicholas Rewell 	National 	
Kitaoka, TJ 	 	United 	notional – new seat	1.07 	3.30 	2.33 	Jack Saito 	Social Democrats	
Minato, TJ 	 	United 	Walt Dustin 	1.67 	5.65 	3.98 	Makoto Tahara 	Social Democrats	
Monash, NS 	 	United 	William Carroll 	4.53 	8.73 	4.20 	Michelle Jowett 	Social Democrats	
Nanshan, LS 	 	United 	Ross Passenger 	1.50 	9.27 	7.77 	Pauline McCarras 	Social Democrats	
Nishihama, TJ 	 	United 	Frank Doyle 	1.93 	3.58 	1.65 	Craig Taggart 	Social Democrats	
Normanhurst, CO 	 	United 	Terry Ziegler 	6.89 	8.26 	1.37 	Sid Forster 	Social Democrats	
O'Malley, MA 	 	United 	Gerald Cameron 	3.51 	6.20 	2.69 	Gerald Cameron 	National 	
Port William, WS 	 	Independent 	Jim Mulroney 	3.96* 	N/A 	26.22 	Jung-soo Martin Song	Social Democrats	
Rockingham North, CO	 	Social Democrats	David Drew 	8.13 	8.14 	0.01 	Anthony Bailey 	United 	
Sierra, SA 	 	Independent 	Brian Callister 	5.35 	N/A 	4.97 	Darrell Dexter 	National 	
Wellington, WE 	 	United 	Paul Wagner 	1.16* 	3.34 	2.18 	Juliet Cleveland 	Social Democrats	
*Chung'an, LS, won by the Social Democrats at the previous election, was won by United in a 1981 by-election. The margin listed above is the by-election margin.
*Port William, WS, won by the Social Democrats at the previous election, was won by an independent in a 1981 by-election. The margin listed above is the by-election margin.
*Wellington, WE, won by the Social Democrats at the previous election, was won by United in a 1979 by-election. The margin listed above is the by-election margin.
==Background==
===Parties===
Name	Name 	Ideology 	Party leader 	Seats 	Seats
Name	Name 	Ideology 	Party leader 	1978 result	At dissolution
 	Social Democratic Party 	Social democracy 	James Thorpe 	/ 	/
 	United Party 	Conservative liberalism	Mike Behrens 	/ 	/
 	Enderron National Party 	Agrarianism 	George Sanders 	/ 	/
 	Conservative Party 	Conservatism 	Bradley Kelling	/ 	/
 	IndependentsIndependents who sat in Parliament as of the end of the parliamentary term were Frank Blackburn, Brian Callister and Jim Mulroney.	– 	– 	/ 	/
==Pendulum==
SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC SEATS (70)	SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC SEATS (70)	SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC SEATS (70)	SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC SEATS (70)
Marginal 	Marginal 	Marginal 	Marginal
Cook (PL) 	Colin McDonough 	SDP 	0.54
Normanhurst (CO) 	Sid Forster 	SDP 	1.37
Parkes (JZ) 	Steve Hall 	SDP 	1.42
Nishihama (TJ) 	Frank Doyle 	SDP 	1.65
Coburn (NS) 	Gary Wall 	SDP 	1.89
Cheltenham (CO) 	Doug Caines 	SDP 	1.94
Duyfken (SY) 	Sean Tsang 	SDP 	2.18
Wellington (WE) 	Juliet Cleveland 	SDP 	2.18
Kitaoka (TJ) 	Jack Saito 	SDP 	2.23
Anderson (WE) 	Marcel Wu 	SDP 	2.28
Hannigan (WE) 	Sam Donovan 	SDP 	2.39
Summer Coast (WS) 	Stu Weston 	SDP 	2.85
St Claire (PL) 	Richard Hart 	SDP 	2.88
Stewart (PL) 	Luke Jeffrey 	SDP 	3.09
Rockingham South (CO) 	David Paterson 	SDP 	3.57
Tanshui (JZ) 	Leonard Lee 	SDP 	3.84
Minato (TJ) 	Makoto Tahara 	SDP 	3.98
Hexham (PL) 	Tom Johnston 	SDP 	4.07
Nanhai (PL) 	Rick Knight 	SDP 	4.17
Monash (NS) 	Michelle Jowett 	SDP 	4.20
Taylor (PL) 	Brendan Mulligan 	SDP 	4.21
Meiling Bay (JZ) 	Frank Wilson 	SDP 	4.45
Palmerston East (LS) 	Scott McKinnon 	SDP 	4.62
Mitchell (FL) 	Jasper Neal 	SDP 	4.71
Kingston (PL) 	Jeff Brown 	SDP 	4.74
Macquarie (KA) 	Douglas Chang 	SDP 	4.93
Newton (WE) 	Louise Haase 	SDP 	5.11
Fairly safe 	Fairly safe 	Fairly safe 	Fairly safe
Lyndhurst (NS) 	Nancy Ziegler 	SDP 	6.44
Matsunaga (TJ) 	Ichiro Matsuno 	SDP 	6.52
Shirakawa South (TJ) 	Jim Halston 	SDP 	6.68
Hayakita (TJ) 	Melvin Ybarra 	SDP 	6.97
Brooklyn (JZ) 	Tommy Walters 	SDP 	7.49
Nanshan (LS) 	Pauline McCarras 	SDP 	7.77
Rockingham Central (CO) 	Austin Shillingford 	SDP 	8.10
Fairfield (NC) 	Benjamin Leitner 	SDP 	8.39
Longshan West (LS) 	Charlie Lin 	SDP 	8.71
Forsythia (NS) 	Debbie Amos 	SDP 	8.78
Palmerston West (LS) 	Ray Sutton 	SDP 	8.98
Durston (TJ) 	Charles Moriyama 	SDP 	9.24
Leightonfield (NS) 	Michael Warner 	SDP 	9.44
Edison (WE) 	William Woodward 	SDP 	9.47
Safe 	Safe 	Safe 	Safe
Jackson (WE) 	Rick Clarkson 	SDP 	10.12
Endeavour (CO) 	Henry Melkert 	SDP 	10.83
Chung'an (LS) 	Andy Tao 	SDP 	11.07
Bexley (WE) 	Margaret Lyons 	SDP 	11.34
Woodleigh (NS) 	Aaron Pearson 	SDP 	11.57
Torrens (WE) 	Richard Gaiser 	SDP 	11.65
Rosslea (JZ) 	Helen Vandenberg 	SDP 	11.79
Whetstone (WE) 	Rob Shadbolt 	SDP 	11.93
Hamilton (WS) 	Liam De Araujo 	SDP 	12.01
Nottingham (MA) 	Arnold Vanderkaap 	SDP 	12.17
Lewisham (PL) 	Julie Tassell 	SDP 	12.36
Mizuoka (KA) 	Paul Jovanovski 	SDP 	12.92
Wentworth (WE) 	Altonia Keys 	SDP 	13.51
Cunningham (SY) 	Earl Ousley 	SDP 	13.59
Karburgh (NC) 	Frank Chittenden 	SDP 	14.43
Grey (NS) 	Ed Allison 	SDP 	14.56
Dover (NC) 	Alex Dos Santos 	SDP 	15.13
Harvey (TJ) 	Nick Giannakopoulos 	SDP 	15.52
Gardner (JZ) 	Harry O'Donnell 	SDP 	17.44
Reedijk (CO) 	Taylor Colbeck 	SDP 	17.74
Lynn (PL) 	Lionel Wicks 	SDP 	18.03
Kingscliffe (JZ) 	James Thorpe 	SDP 	18.39
Douglas (PL) 	Tim Arnett 	SDP 	18.47
Very safe 	Very safe 	Very safe 	Very safe
Denison (JZ) 	Kate Bridges 	SDP 	20.65
Shirakawa Central (TJ) 	Shiro Masaki 	SDP 	21.11
Kensington (WE) 	Sian O'Dwyer 	SDP 	21.34
Victoria (PL) 	Cedrick Brody 	SDP 	25.16
Port William (WS) 	Jung-soo Martin Song 	SDP 	26.22
Taralga (KA) 	Bryan Heath 	SDP 	27.94
UNITED SEATS (45) 	UNITED SEATS (45) 	UNITED SEATS (45)	UNITED SEATS (45)
Marginal 	Marginal 	Marginal 	Marginal
Rockingham North (CO)	Anthony Bailey 	UP 	0.01
Kuiper (TJ) 	Tommy Hamilton 	UP 	0.51
Gibson (PL) 	Kelvin Davidson 	UP 	0.66
Spilner (WS) 	Wilson Ingram 	UP 	0.72
Hunter (LR) 	Frederick Bosman 	UP 	0.98
Eltham (WE) 	Ted Jean 	UP 	1.23
McLaughlin (LR) 	Billy Bob Devon 	UP 	1.62
Cowper (WS) 	Melissa Hartsuyker 	UP 	2.03
Tojima West (TJ) 	Rei Nagasawa 	UP 	2.27
Channel (PL) 	Neil Rothenberg 	UP 	2.31
Yamaguchi (TJ) 	Ross Aldous 	UP 	2.62
Watford (PL) 	Brad Toole 	UP 	2.88
Wollstonecraft (LR) 	Bill Teasley 	UP 	3.29
Linden (WE) 	Roger Baker 	UP 	3.56
Simpson (CO) 	Margaret Weaver 	UP 	3.58
Berkeley (PL) 	Paul Everman 	UP 	3.60
Johnson (PL) 	Jack Warren 	UP 	3.67
Barris (WE) 	Kevin Everest 	UP 	4.41
Braddon (NS) 	Ben Newman 	UP 	4.69
Devereaux (PL) 	John Paul Hanson 	UP 	5.02
Devon (PL) 	M. B. Sivakumar 	UP 	5.18
Carlisle (FL) 	Jeremy Kohler 	UP 	5.58
Fairly safe 	Fairly safe 	Fairly safe 	Fairly safe
Double Bay (NS) 	Bert Campbell 	UP 	6.83
Kingfisher (FL) 	Steven Falconer 	UP 	7.11
Roscoe (WS) 	Colin Gonzo 	UP 	7.92
Warwick (FL) 	Peter Sellman 	UP 	8.03
Wolseley (NS) 	Mike Behrens 	UP 	8.11
Hacking (NS) 	Jack Deane 	UP 	8.49
Formosa (JZ) 	Andrew Quinton 	UP 	8.52
Merewether (NS) 	Ed Tannen 	UP 	9.04
Safe 	Safe 	Safe 	Safe
Marshall Bay (CO) 	Ken Harding 	UP 	10.47
Latham (WS) 	Barry Coolidge 	UP 	10.51
Dorterhoek (WE) 	Keith Herbert 	UP 	11.68
Epsom (NS) 	Len Severn 	UP 	11.93
Bayswater (WE) 	Spencer Fox 	UP 	12.51
Tregear (CO) 	Shirley Swanson 	UP 	14.12
Orange (WS) 	Jeff McAllister 	UP 	14.24
Middle Range (WS) 	Nate Garrett 	UP 	14.27
Rock Valley (NS) 	Rupert Clarke 	UP 	15.50
Brighton (WE) 	Christopher Gallagher	UP 	18.21
Oxley (CO) 	Wally Koepke 	UP 	19.43
Very safe 	Very safe 	Very safe 	Very safe
Kennedy (WS) 	Clive Dobson 	UP 	20.09
Harrison (FL) 	Robert Shields 	UP 	20.61
Mayfair (CO) 	Lou Abbott 	UP 	23.81
Epping (PL) 	Trent Fairweather 	UP 	24.11
CROSSBENCH SEATS (10)	 	 	
Heathbridge (WE) 	Maxwell Lee 	IND 	0.03 v SDP
Jingcheng (LS) 	Nicholas Rewell 	ENP 	1.85 v SDP
O'Malley (MA) 	Gerald Cameron 	ENP 	2.69 v UP
Lakeside (KA) 	Walter Leigh 	ENP 	2.85 v UP
Forrest (MA) 	Doug Fuller 	ENP 	3.32 v UP
Mount Gilbert (MA) 	George Sanders 	ENP 	4.54 v UP
Sierra (SA) 	Darrell Dexter 	ENP 	4.97 v UP
Fairfax (FL) 	Richard Cowan 	ENP 	5.39 v UP
Aston (PL) 	Frank Blackburn 	IND 	6.43 v UP
Greenberg (GB) 	Michael Paxton 	ENP 	6.75 v UP
==Opinion polling==
===Graphical summary===