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1988 Adelaide by-election

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Field	Value
election_name	1988 Adelaide by-election
country	South Australia
type	parliamentary
vote_type	Primary
ongoing	no
previous_election	1987 Australian federal election
previous_year	1987
election_date	6 February 1988
next_election	1990 Australian federal election
next_year	1990
seats_for_election	Division of Adelaide (SA) in the House of Representatives
image1
candidate1	Mike Pratt
party1	South Australian Liberal Party
popular_vote1	26,777
percentage1	44.4%
swing1	8.9
image2	{{CSS image crop	Image = Senator Don Farrell crop.jpg
bSize	150	cWidth = 120	cHeight = 160	oTop = 5	oLeft = 14}}
candidate2	Don Farrell
party2	South Australian Labor Party
popular_vote2	22,897
percentage2	38.0%
swing2	10.9
image3
candidate3	Ian McLeish
party3	Australian Democrats
popular_vote3	7,097
percentage3	11.8%
swing3	2.7
1blank	TPP
2blank	TPP swing
1data1	51.9%
2data1	8.4
1data2	48.2%
2data2	8.4
title	MP
before_election	Chris Hurford
before_party	South Australian Labor Party
after_election	Mike Pratt
after_party	South Australian Liberal Party

A by-election was held for the Australian House of Representatives seat of Adelaide on 6 February 1988. This was triggered by the resignation of Labor Party MP Chris Hurford to become Australia's Consul-General in New York City.

The election was won by Liberal candidate Mike Pratt with an 8.4 percent two-party-preferred swing on a 1.9 percent margin, defeating Labor candidate Don Farrell.

The 1988 Port Adelaide by-election occurred seven weeks later.

Candidates

Independent – Bronwyn Mewett
Independent – Peter Consandine, republican campaigner who later founded the Republican Party of Australia
Independent – Michael Brander
Independent – John Litten
Australian Democrats – Ian McLeish
Unite Australia Party – Dorothy McGregor-Dey, who contested Mayo for the party in 1987
National Party of Australia – Bryan Stokes, the party's 1987 candidate
Australian Labor Party – Don Farrell, assistant secretary of the Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees Association (SDA). Farrell was later influential in the South Australian Labor Party, and serves in the Senate (2016–present), having served previously from 2008 to 2014
Liberal Party of Australia – Mike Pratt, a local farmer

Campaign

The proposed introduction of time-based billing for local telephone calls was reportedly a major issue in the campaign. The intended change by government-owned telecommunications monopoly Telecom Australia was announced early in the campaign and was subsequently endorsed by Prime Minister Bob Hawke, who then faced "a backlash from its own left wing, unions and the public". The Liberal Party campaigned heavily on the issue and Liberal candidate Mike Pratt "had a largel model of a telephone receiver placed on the roof of his campaign van to help push home the party message".

Results

References

(1 February 1988). "Time-charge issue could swing SA by-election". [[Canberra Times]].
(8 February 1988). "9.05pc by-election swing leaves Labor reeling". Canberra Times.

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