October 2013 Australian Labor Party leadership election

October 2013 Australian Labor Party leadership election
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Candidate Bill Shorten Anthony Albanese
Percentage 52.0% 48.0%
Caucus 55 (64.0%) 31 (36.0%)
Members 12,196 (40.1%) 18,230 (59.9%)
Seat Maribyrnong (VIC) Grayndler (NSW)
Faction Right Left
Leader before election

Kevin Rudd
Chris Bowen (interim)

 Elected Leader

Bill Shorten

A leadership election was held in October 2013 to select Kevin Rudd's replacement as leader of the Australian Labor Party and Leader of the Opposition.[1] Bill Shorten was elected party leader,[2] and Tanya Plibersek was later confirmed as deputy leader.[3]

The declared candidates were Bill Shorten and Anthony Albanese, who were both ministers in the outgoing Labor government.[4] Nominations closed on 20 September 2013.[5]

Under new rules, the new leader was elected by public members of the Australian Labor Party over a period of twenty days, followed by a ballot of the Labor parliamentary party. Each of these two voting blocs was weighted equally in determining the winner.

During the leadership election, Chris Bowen, former Treasurer of Australia and Member of Parliament for McMahon, was Interim Leader of the Labor Party and served as Leader of the Opposition.[6]

Tanya Plibersek was unopposed in succeeding Anthony Albanese as deputy leader.

As of 2023, the 2013 Labor Party leadership election was the first and only leadership election where public party members voted in the election.

  1. ^ Kenny, Mark (9 September 2013). "Now search begins for leader to guide lost in the wilderness". The Age. Retrieved 10 September 2013.
  2. ^ "Bill Shorten elected Labor leader over Anthony Albanese after month-long campaign". abc.net.au. 13 October 2013. Retrieved 13 October 2013.
  3. ^ Packham, Ben (14 October 2013). "Tanya Plibersek endorsed by caucus to be deputy Labor leader". The Australian. Retrieved 14 October 2013.
  4. ^ "Anthony Albanese puts his hat into the ring for Labor leadership". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 13 September 2013.
  5. ^ "Anthony Albanese to run for Labor leadership against Bill Shorten". ABC News. Abc.net.au. 13 September 2013. Retrieved 14 September 2013.
  6. ^ Cullen, Simon (13 September 2013). "How do Labor's leadership voting rules work?". abc.net.au. Retrieved 13 September 2013.