2009 New South Wales Labor Party leadership spill

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2009 New South Wales Labor Party
leadership spill
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Spill motion
 
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Nathan Rees.jpg
Candidate Spill motion Nathan Rees
Caucus vote4325
Seat– Toongabbie
Faction–Unaligned [a]
Leadership election
 
Kristina Keneally.jpg
Nathan Rees.jpg
Candidate Kristina Keneally Nathan Rees
Caucus vote4721
Seat Heffron Toongabbie
Faction Right Unaligned [a]
Leader before election

Nathan Rees

Elected Leader

Kristina Keneally

Deputy leadership election
 
The Hon. Carmel Mary TEBBUTT.jpg
Candidate Carmel Tebbutt
Caucus voteUnopposed
Seat Marrickville
Faction Left
Deputy before election

Carmel Tebbutt

Elected Deputy

Carmel Tebbutt

The 2009 New South Wales Labor Party leadership spill was held on 3 December 2009 to elect the leader of the New South Wales Labor Party and, ex officio, Premier of New South Wales. [1] [2]

Contents

Sitting premier Nathan Rees lost a spill motion after several months of speculation about a possible challenge. [3] [4] He contested the subsequent leadership election, but was defeated by planning minister Kristina Keneally. [5] [6] Carmel Tebbutt was returned unopposed as deputy leader (and Deputy Premier), creating the first all-female leadership team in Australia at a state or federal level. [7] [8]

Keneally was sworn in as premier the following day, becoming the first female Premier of New South Wales and the state's fourth premier in as many years. [9] [10] She led Labor to a landslide defeat less than two years later at the 2011 New South Wales state election. [11] [12]

Prior to the spill, Rees said that any challenger "would be a puppet" of factional powerbrokers Eddie Obeid and Joe Tripodi. [13] [14] The claim was rejected by Keneally, who stated "I am nobody's puppet, I am nobody's protege, I am nobody's girl". [15] [16]

Candidates

Leader

Declared

CandidateElectorateFactionAnnounced
 
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Nathan Rees Toongabbie Unaligned [a] 3 December 2009 [20] [21]
  Kristina KeneallyCrop.jpg Kristina Keneally Heffron Right 3 December 2009 [22]

Withdrew

Frank Sartor was defeated by Keneally in a vote of Labor Right MPs, with Keneally becoming the Right's candidate for leader. [23] [24]

CandidateElectorateFaction
 
Lord Mayor Frank Sartor at Aurora Place, 88 Phillip Street Sydney, 2000 A-00055976.jpg
Frank Sartor Rockdale Right

Deputy leader

Declared

CandidateElectorateFactionAnnounced
 
The Hon. Carmel Mary TEBBUTT.jpg
Carmel Tebbutt Marrickville Left [25] 3 December 2009

Results

Spill motion

2009 New South Wales Labor Party leadership spill: Spill motion [26] [27]
FactionCandidateVotes%±%
Spill motion 4363.2
Labor Nathan Rees 2536.8
Total votes68 100.0

Leader

2009 New South Wales Labor Party leadership spill: Leader [28]
FactionCandidateVotes%±%
Labor Right Kristina Keneally 4769.1
Labor Nathan Rees 2130.9
Total votes68 100.0

Deputy leader

2009 New South Wales Labor Party leadership spill: Deputy leader
FactionCandidateVotes%±%
Labor Left Carmel Tebbutt unopposed
Total votes68 100.0

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 Rees was a member of the Left faction until he became Premier in 2008, when he moved to being factionally unaligned. [17] [18] [19]

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