1992 Wills by-election

Australian federal by-election April 2022 June 2023 Australia parliamentary Primary no 11 April 1992 1990 Australian federal election 1990 1993 Australian federal election 1993 89.4% ( 4.9) Division of Wills (Vic) in the Australian House of Representatives PhilCleary.jpg 130 120 160 0 7 Phil Cleary Independent (Australia) 21,391 33.5% 33.5 Labor Placeholder.png 120 120 160 0 0 Bill Kardamitsis Australian Labor Party 18,784 29.4% 19.3 Liberal Party of Australia placeholder portrait.svg 120 120 160 0 0 John Delacretaz Liberal Party of Australia 17,582 27.9% 6.9 2PP 2PP swing 65.7% 65.7 34.3% 23.6 MP Bob Hawke Australian Labor Party Phil Cleary Independent politician The 1992 Wills by-election was held on 11 April 1992 to elect the member for Wills in the Australian House of Representatives, following the resignation of Labor Party MP and former Prime Minister Bob Hawke. The by-election was won by independent candidate Phil Cleary. There were 22 candidates, the largest number ever to contest any House of Representatives seat. Though 22 candidates contested the 2009 Bradfield by-election, nine of the candidates were from the Christian Democratic Party. Cleary's election was declared void by the High Court on the grounds that, as a teacher employed by the Victorian state government, he held an office of profit under the Crown at the time he nominated.Sykes v Cleary 1992 HCA 60 (1992) 176 CLR 77. No second by-election was held due to the imminence of the 1993 federal election. Results Wills by-election, 1992 Wills (Vic) By-Election (11 April 1992) Australian Electoral Commission http://www.aec.gov.au/Elections/supplementary_by_elections/wills.htm 2009-05-11 https://web.archive.org/web/20110604072410/http://www.aec.gov.au/Elections/supplementary_by_elections/wills.htm# 2011-06-04 dead By-Elections 1990-1993 Psephos http://psephos.adam-carr.net/countries/a/australia/1990/1990repsby.txt Phil Cleary Independent 21,391 33.5 +33.5 Bill Kardamitsis Labor 18,784 29.4 -19.3 John Delacretaz Liberal 17,582 27.6 -6.9 Katheryne Savage Independent 1,660 2.6 +2.6 David Mackay Democrats 1,383 2.2 -7.4 Angela Walker AAFI 577 0.9 +0.9 Geraldine Rawson Independent 453 0.7 +0.7 Ian Sykes Independent 364 0.6 -0.9 |- | bgcolor="97040A" |   | style="text-align:left;"| Federal | style="text-align:left;"| Stan Germaine | style="text-align:right;"| 280 | style="text-align:right;"| 0.4 | style="text-align:right;"| +0.4 |- |- | imperial british conservative width:1px |   | style="text-align:left;"| Imperial British | style="text-align:left;"| Cecil G. Murgatroyd | style="text-align:right;"| 258 | style="text-align:right;"| 0.4 | style="text-align:right;"| −0.1 |- Salvatore Ferraro Independent 221 0.4 +0.4 Bob Lewis Independent 216 0.3 +0.3 |- | socialist equality width:1px |   | style="text-align:left;"| Socialist Labour League | style="text-align:left;"| Richard Phillips | style="text-align:right;"| 136 | style="text-align:right;"| 0.2 | style="text-align:right;"| +0.2 |- Bill French Independent 90 0.1 +0.1 Kon Kyrou Independent 81 0.1 +0.1 Julien Droulers Independent 68 0.1 +0.1 Patricia Poulos 61 0.1 +0.1 John Murray Independent 54 0.1 +0.1 Chris Vassis Independent 43 0.1 +0.1 |- | republican width:1px |   | style="text-align:left;"| Republican | style="text-align:left;"| Otto Kuhne | style="text-align:right;"| 35 | style="text-align:right;"| 0.1 | style="text-align:right;"| +0.1 |- Will Kapphan Independent 34 0.1 +0.1 Felicia Potter Independent 30 0.1 +0.1 63,801 93.6 +0.00 4,348 6.4 +0.00 68,149 89.4 -4.9 Bill Kardamitis Labor 40,416 63.8 +5.9 John Delacretaz Liberal 22,942 36.2 −5.9 Phil Cleary Independent 41,708 65.7 +65.7 Bill Kardamitsis Labor 21,772 34.3 -23.6 Independent Labor No See also Electoral results for the Division of Wills List of Australian federal by-elections Sykes v Cleary Sykes v Cleary References Wills by-election Category:Victorian federal by-elections Wills by-election, 1992 Wills by-election