Liberal Party of Australia leadership spill, 1993

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Liberal Party of Australia
leadership election, 1993

← 1990 March 23 1993 1994 →
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Candidate John Hewson John Howard Bruce Reid
Caucus vote 47 30 1
Percentage 60.25% 38.46% 1.28%

Leader before election

John Hewson

Elected Leader

John Hewson

A spill of the leadership of the Liberal Party of Australia took place on March 23 1993, following incumbent leader John Hewson receiving blame for losing the 1993 "unloseable election" because of his staunch promotion of a GST and an inability to sell his policies to voters. Initially Hewson stated he would not recontest but was convinced to do so to block former leader John Howard from winning. The spill was won by Hewson over Howard by 47 votes to 30 while backbencher Bruce Reid attracted only one sole vote.[1][2]

References

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  2. The Canberra Times, March 24 1993


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