New South Wales general election, 1978
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| Legislative Assembly election, 1978 | ||||
| Party[1] | Vote %[2] | Seats[3] | ||
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| Labor | 57.8 | ↑8.2 | 63 | ↑13 |
| Liberal | 27.0 | ↓9.3 | 18 | ↓12 |
| National Country | 9.9 | ↓0.1 | 17 | ↓1 |
| Independents | 1 | 0 | ||
| Labor win | ||||
A general election was held in the state of New South Wales, Australia, on Saturday, October 7, 1978. The result was the "Wranslide": a landslide victory for the Australian Labor Party under Neville Wran.
It is notable for being so successful for the Labor Party that it managed to win seats from the Leader of Opposition, Peter Coleman and many other prominent Shadow Ministers. Labor also won seats on the North Shore and Northern Beaches of Sydney which were considered Coalition heartland such as Willoughby (contested for the Liberal Party by Nick Greiner who later became Premier), Manly, Wakehurst and Cronulla. These seats had never been won by Labor before this election.
The state's first elections to the New South Wales Legislative Council, the state parliament's upper house, were held simultaneously. Voters had approved a referendum to introduce a directly-elected council in June of that year.
The election was also the first in the state to be contested by the Australian Democrats and the National Country Party.
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[edit] Issues
Labor continued to campaign heavily on the strengths of Wran himself, with the slogan "Wran's our man".
[edit] Electoral System
The New South Wales Legislative Assembly had 99 members elected using Instant run-off voting, a form of preferential voting. The allocation of preferences was compulsory at the 1978 election.
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