2022 Liberal Party of Australia leadership election

2022 Liberal Party of Australia
leadership election

Leadership election
← 2018 30 May 2022
 
Candidate Peter Dutton
Caucus vote Unopposed
Seat Dickson (Qld.)
Faction National Right

Leader before election

Scott Morrison

Elected Leader

Peter Dutton

Deputy leadership election
← 2018 30 May 2022
 
Candidate Sussan Ley
Caucus vote Unopposed
Seat Farrer (NSW)
Faction Centre Right

Deputy Leader before election

Josh Frydenberg

Elected Deputy Leader

Sussan Ley

A leadership election of the Liberal Party of Australia was held on 30 May 2022,[1] following the defeat of the Scott Morrison government at the 2022 federal election and the resignation of Morrison as party leader.[2] The newly elected leader would become Leader of the Opposition to the Labor Party government of Anthony Albanese. A separate leadership spill for the Liberal Party's Coalition partner National Party was also held on the same day.

Peter Dutton was elected unopposed as leader, while Sussan Ley was elected unopposed as deputy leader.[3] Dutton, who is from Queensland, is the first leader outside of New South Wales to lead the Liberal Party since Alexander Downer in 1995 from South Australia. Simon Birmingham was re-elected leader of the Liberal Party in the Senate.[4][5]

Dutton is only the second Liberal leader after Downer outside of New South Wales and Victoria. Notwithstanding the party's inaugural leader and deputy leader Robert Menzies and Eric Harrison who had continued with their leadership positions from the previous United Australia Party, the election of Dutton as leader and Ley as his deputy marks the first time that both a new leader and new deputy leader were elected unopposed simultaneously.

  1. ^ "Peter Dutton confirms he'll run for leadership of the Liberal Party in wake of election loss". SBS World News. 25 May 2022. Retrieved 27 May 2022.
  2. ^ "Scott Morrison concedes defeat in Australian election". The New York Times. 21 May 2022. Retrieved 21 May 2022.
  3. ^ "Peter Dutton elected new Liberal Party leader, Sussan Ley becomes deputy leader". ABC News. 30 May 2022.
  4. ^ "Here's what's coming up on Afternoon Briefing". ABC News. 30 May 2022.
  5. ^ "Simon Birmingham to lead the Senate again". The Advertiser. 30 May 2022.