2021 New South Wales Labor Party leadership election

2021 New South Wales Labor Party leadership election
← 2019 4 June 2021
 
Candidate Chris Minns
Result Unopposed
Seat Kogarah
Leader before election

Jodi McKay

 Elected Leader

Chris Minns

An election for the leadership of the New South Wales Labor Party was held in June 2021, following the resignation of leader Jodi McKay on 28 May 2021.[1]

Nominations for the leadership opened at 11:00 AEST on 4 June 2021.[2] Each candidate would have had 48 hours to produce at least 15 signatures from caucus members to nominate. With Chris Minns as the only candidate to nominate for the leadership, he was elected unopposed as the new party leader.[3] Prue Car was elected unopposed as deputy party leader four days later.[4]

  1. ^ Raper, Ashleigh; Bavas, Josh (28 May 2021). "Jodi McKay steps down as NSW Opposition Leader after Labor crisis meeting". Archived from the original on 28 May 2021. Retrieved 28 May 2021.
  2. ^ "Senior Labor MPs publicly endorse Chris Minns to end bruising ballot battle". Sydney Morning Herald. 2 June 2021. Retrieved 2 June 2021.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference abc_4jun21 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ "Londonderry MP Prue Car elected Deputy Leader of NSW Labor". Western Weekender. 8 June 2021. Retrieved 8 June 2021.