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1988 Groom by-election

1988 Australian by-election

Field	Value
country	Queensland
type	parliamentary
ongoing	no
election_date	9 April 1988
image1	[[File:Liberal Party of Australia placeholder portrait.svg	150x150px]]
candidate1	Bill Taylor
party1	Liberal Party of Australia
popular_vote1	20,651
percentage1	33.3%
swing1	19.9
image2	[[File:Nationals_Placeholder.png	150x150px]]
candidate2	David Russell
party2	National Party of Australia
popular_vote2	17,814
percentage2	28.8%
swing2	20.1
image3	[[File:Labor_Placeholder.png	150x150px]]
candidate3	Linda Dwyer
party3	Australian Labor Party
popular_vote3	14,973
percentage3	24.2%
swing3	8.2
1blank	TCP
2blank	TCP swing
1data1	62.4%
2data1	62.4
1data2	37.6%
2data2	25.2
title	MP
before_election	Tom McVeigh
before_party	National Party of Australia
after_election	Bill Taylor
after_party	Liberal Party of Australia

A by-election was held for the Australian House of Representatives seat of Groom on 9 April 1988. It was triggered by the resignation of National Party MP Tom McVeigh.

The by-election was won by Liberal Party candidate Bill Taylor.

A month before the poll, Taylor was publicly backed by former Queensland premier Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen, who had been forced to resign as premier several months earlier, after losing the support of his National Party colleagues. Bjelke-Petersen said the Nationals had lost their way and turned their backs on traditional conservative policies.

Candidates

Australian Democrats – Mark Carew, the party's 1987 candidate.
Australian Labor Party – Linda Dwyer, the party's 1987 candidate.
Liberal Party of Australia – Bill Taylor, an officer in the Royal Australian Navy.
National Party of Australia – David Russell.
Independent – Peter Consandine, republican campaigner who later founded the Republican Party of Australia.
Independent – Vincent Burke. Burke later contested the Australian Senate as an ungrouped independent in 1990.

Results

References

"Vote for Libs, says Joh, the Nats are lost", ''The Courier-Mail'', 15 March 1988, pg 2.

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