State election for New South Wales, Australia in March 1984
1984 New South Wales state election
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24 March 1984 (1984-03-24)
1988 →
All 99 seats in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly and 15 (of the 45) seats in the New South Wales Legislative Council 50 Assembly seats were needed for a majority
First party
Second party
Leader
Neville Wran
Nick Greiner
Party
Labor
Liberal/National coalition
Leader since
17 November 1973
15 March 1983
Leader's seat
Bass Hill
Ku-ring-gai
Last election
69 seats
28 seats
Seats won
58
37
Seat change
11
9
Popular vote
1,466,413
1,292,996
Percentage
48.77%
43.00%
Swing
6.95
4.16
TPP
52.4%
47.6%
TPP swing
6.3
6.3
Two-candidate-preferred margin by electorate
Premier before election
Neville Wran
Labor
Elected Premier
Neville Wran
Labor
Elections were held in the state of New South Wales, Australia, on Saturday 24 March 1984. The Labor government led by Neville Wran won a fourth term in office, though with a reduced (if still sizeable) majority and a 7% swing against it.
As the two previous elections each saw the sitting Opposition Leader lose the election and failing to be elected to Parliament, the 1984 election saw Nick Greiner becoming the first Opposition Leader to lose an election and retain his seat since Pat Hills in 1973.
Independents Ted Mack and John Hatton retained their seats of North Shore and South Coast respectively. They were joined on the cross benches by a third independent and Bruce Duncan.
Duncan, a former National Country Party member, withdrew from the party in protest at their change to the National Party name. He ran on an "Independent Country Party" ticket and won his seat of Lismore.
At a 1981 referendum, voters had approved an increase in the maximum parliamentary term from three years to four.
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