1976 Australian Labor Party leadership spill information
1976 Australian Labor Party Leadership spill
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27 January 1976
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Candidate
Gough Whitlam
Lionel Bowen
Frank Crean
Caucus vote
36 (57.1%)
14 (22.2%)
13 (20.6%)
Leader before election
Gough Whitlam
Elected Leader
Gough Whitlam
A leadership spill in the Australian Labor Party, the party of opposition in the Parliament of Australia, was held on 27 January 1976, the date of the first Caucus meeting following the 1975 election.
Dismissed Prime Minister Gough Whitlam was comfortably re-elected leader of the ALP ahead of senior MPs Lionel Bowen and Frank Crean on the first ballot. A much more extensive series of ballots was required to fill the deputy leadership with eight contenders narrowed down to a final ballot seeing Tom Uren narrowly defeat Paul Keating 33 votes to 30.[1]
To date, this is the last Australian Labor Party leadership spill at the federal level to be contested by more than two candidates.
^"Clear win to Whitlam". The Canberra Times. 28 January 1976. p. 1.
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