Tuggerah, an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales, was created in 1981 and abolished in 1988. [1] [2] [3]
Election | Member | Party | |
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1981 | Harry Moore | Labor | |
1984 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labor | Harry Moore | 18,345 | 55.8 | -3.3 | |
Liberal | Leslie Nunn | 10,416 | 31.7 | +2.1 | |
Independent | Clem Payne | 2,664 | 8.1 | +8.1 | |
Democrats | Lynn Sawyer | 1,438 | 4.4 | -6.9 | |
Total formal votes | 32,863 | 97.7 | +0.4 | ||
Informal votes | 766 | 2.3 | -0.4 | ||
Turnout | 33,629 | 93.2 | +2.2 | ||
Two-party-preferred result | |||||
Labor | Harry Moore | 61.8 | -5.0 | ||
Liberal | Leslie Nunn | 38.2 | +5.0 | ||
Labor hold | Swing | -5.0 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labor | Harry Moore | 17,724 | 59.1 | ||
Liberal | Joan Skaife | 8,883 | 29.6 | ||
Democrats | Lynn Sawyer | 3,382 | 11.3 | ||
Total formal votes | 29,989 | 97.3 | |||
Informal votes | 817 | 2.7 | |||
Turnout | 30,806 | 91.0 | |||
Two-party-preferred result | |||||
Labor | Harry Moore | 19,108 | 66.8 | -3.2 | |
Liberal | Joan Skaife | 9,503 | 33.2 | +3.2 | |
Labor hold | Swing | -3.2 |
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