Liberal Party of Australia leadership spill, 1993

Liberal Party of Australia
Leadership spill, 1993

← 1990 23 March 1993 1994 →
Candidate John Hewson John Howard Bruce Reid Caucus vote 47 30 1 Percentage 60.2% 38.4% 1.4%
Leader before election John Hewson Elected Leader John Hewson

John Hewson

John Hewson

A spill of the leadership of the Liberal Party of Australia took place on March 23 1993, following incumbent leader John Hewson receiving blame for losing the 1993 "unloseable election" because of his staunch promotion of a Goods and Services Tax and an inability to sell his policies to voters. Initially Hewson stated he would not recontest but was convinced to do so to block former leader John Howard from winning. The spill was won by Hewson over Howard by 47 votes to 30 while backbencher Bruce Reid attracted only one sole vote. For the Deputy leadership Michael Wooldridge won against Peter Costello

The following table gives the ballot results:

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