1992 Ku-ring-gai state by-election

none December 2025 December 2025 1992 Ku-ring-gai state by-election New South Wales parliamentary Primary no 1991 New South Wales state election 1991 22 August 1992 1995 New South Wales state election 1995 Electoral district of Ku-ring-gai in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly Liberal Party of Australia placeholder portrait.svg 120 120 160 0 0 Stephen O'Doherty New South Wales Liberal Party 14,755 47.85% 14.57 Independent (Australia) Mick Gallagher Independent (Australia) 9,725 31.54% 23.54 Independent (Australia) Ted Roach Independent (Australia) 5,442 17.65% 8.57 TCP TCP swing 55.09% 17.62 44.91% 44.91 MP Nick Greiner New South Wales Liberal Party Stephen O'Doherty New South Wales Liberal Party A by-election was held for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly seat of Ku-ring-gai on Saturday, 22 August 1992. It was triggered by the resignation on 24 June 1992 of Liberal Party MP and premier Nick Greiner after the scandal known as the 'Metherell affair'. Green Antony Ku-ring-gai - NSW Votes 2011 ABC Elections Australian Broadcasting Corporation http://www.abc.net.au/elections/nsw/2011/guide/kuri.htm 2012-06-21 The seat was subsequently won by Stephen O'Doherty of the Liberal Party. However the Liberals suffered a 14% drop in their primary vote, and a 17% drop in their two party preferred vote. Background Terry Metherell The seat of Ku-ring-gai, a traditionally safe Liberal seat, was held since 1980 by Nick Greiner, who had been Premier of New South Wales since 1988. However, with the hung parliament result of the 1991 election, Greiner's performance in government had become dependent on the support of the few independent members of the legislative assembly. With the resignation from the party of former minister Terry Metherell in October 1991, the government's majority became even tighter. 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.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 2009-10-05 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. Results [[1992 Ku-ring-gai state by-election|1992 Ku-ring-gai by-election]]Saturday 22 August1992 Ku-ring-gai by-election 1991 Kuringgai_1 8 September 2019 Stephen O'Doherty Liberal NSW 14,755 47.85 -14.57 Mick Gallagher Independent 9,725 31.54 +23.54 Ted Roach Independent 5,442 17.65 +8.57 Robert Taylor Call to Australia 914 2.96 +0.73 30,836 95.74 +2.00 1,371 4.26 -2.00 32,207 82.68 -11.39 Liberal NSW Stephen O'Doherty 16,167 55.09 -17.62 Independent Mick Gallagher 13,182 44.91 +44.91 Liberal NSW No See also Electoral results for the district of Ku-ring-gai 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