1992 Gordon state by-election

none December 2025 December 2025 1992 Gordon state by-election New South Wales parliamentary Primary no 1991 New South Wales state election 1991 2 May 1992 1995 New South Wales state election 1995 Electoral district of Gordon in theNew South Wales Legislative Assembly Liberal Party of Australia placeholder portrait.svg 120 120 160 0 0 Jeremy Kinross New South Wales Liberal Party 19,832 69.02% 6.50 Independent (Australia) David Barnett Independent (Australia) 4,481 15.60% 15.60 TCP TCP swing 77.85% 5.70 22.15% 22.15 MP Tim Moore New South Wales Liberal Party Jeremy Kinross New South Wales Liberal Party A by-election was held for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly seat of Gordon on 2 May 1992 because of the resignation of Tim Moore, Mr (Tim) Timothy John Moore (1948– ) 2051 Yes 11 May 2019 following the release of the findings of the Independent Commission Against Corruption into the 'Metherell Affair'. The seat was comfortably won by Jeremy Kinross of the Liberal Party despite a 5.5% drop in the Liberal primary vote, and a 5.7% drop in their two party preferred vote. Background Terry Metherell The seat of Gordon, a traditionally safe Liberal seat, was held since 1976 by Tim Moore. However, with the hung parliament result of the 1991 election, the performance of the Greiner government had become dependent on the support of the few independent members of the legislative assembly. When former minister Terry Metherell resigned in October 1991 the government's ability to command a majority became even more difficult. The government subsequently created a job for Metherell, a position with the Environment Protection Agency, which he accepted, effectively engineering a vacancy in a seat the Liberal Party would recover at a by-election. While the Liberal Party won the by-election, there was a much higher cost. Because the Greiner government was in a minority, it could not prevent the Legislative Assembly referring the matter of Metherell's appointment to the Independent Commission Against Corruption, which made findings of corruption. These findings were eventually ruled by the Supreme Court of New South Wales as being outside the powers of the ICAC to make, but by then Premier Greiner had already resigned as Premier and an MP after the four independent MPs threatened to bring down the government if Greiner stayed in office.Davidson - profile The Poll Bludger - 2007 election http://www.pollbludger.com/nsw2007/davidson.htm 2009-05-22 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20091005221742/http://www.pollbludger.com/nsw2007/davidson.htm 5 October 2009 dmy-all Result [[1992 Gordon state by-election|1992 Gordon by-election]]Saturday 22 August1992 Gordon by-election 1991 Gordon_1 4 September 2019 Liberal NSW Jeremy Kinross 19,832 69.02 -6.5 Independent David Barnett 4,481 15.60 CEC Leone Hay 1,903 6.62 Marie Bignold Team Marie Bignold 1,844 6.42 Call to Australia Bruce Coleman 673 2.34 -1.5 28,733 95.15 1,465 4.85 30,198 80.17 Liberal NSW Jeremy Kinross 20,999 77.85 -5.70 Independent David Barnett 5,975 22.15 +22.15 Liberal NSW No Tim Moore (Liberal NSW) resigned. See also Electoral results for the district of Gordon (New South Wales) List of New South Wales state by-elections References expanded Category:New South Wales state by-elections Category:1992 elections in Australia Category:1992 in New South Wales