Australian Labor Party leadership spill, 1976

Australian Labor Party
Leadership spill, 1976
27 January 1976

 
Candidate Gough Whitlam Lionel Bowen Frank Crean
Caucus vote 36 14 13
Percentage 57.14 22.22 20.63
Leader before election

Gough Whitlam

 Elected Leader

Gough Whitlam

A leadership spill in the Australian Labor Party, the party of opposition in the Parliament of Australia, was held on 27 January 1976, the date of the first Caucus meeting following the 1975 election.

Dismissed Prime Minister Gough Whitlam was comfortably re-elected leader of the ALP ahead of senior MPs Lionel Bowen and Frank Crean on the first ballot. A much more extensive series of ballots was required to fill the deputy leadership with eight contenders narrowed down to a final ballot seeing Tom Uren narrowly defeat Paul Keating 33 votes to 30.[1]

Results

The following table gives the ballot results:

Name Votes Percentage
Gough Whitlam 36 57.14
Lionel Bowen 14 22.22
Frank Crean 13 20.63

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Clear win to Whitlam". The Canberra Times. 28 January 1976. p. 1.
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