1984 New South Wales state election

1984 New South Wales state election

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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 Decrease11 Increase9
Popular vote 1,466,413 1,292,996
Percentage 48.77% 43.00%
Swing Decrease6.95 Increase4.16
TPP 52.4% 47.6%
TPP swing Decrease6.3 Increase6.3

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.