New South Wales state election, 1984

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24 March 1984 (1984-03-24)

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All 99 seats in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly and 15 (of the 45) seats in the New South Wales Legislative Council 50 Assembly seats were needed for a majority

	First party	Second party

Leader	Neville Wran	Nick Greiner
Party	Labor	Liberal/National coalition
Leader since	17 November 1973	15 March 1983
Leader's seat	Bass Hill	Ku-ring-gai
Last election	69 seats	28 seats
Seats won	58 seats	37 seats
Seat change	11	9
Percentage	48.77%	43.00%
Swing	6.95	4.16

Legislative Assembly after the election

Premier before election

Neville Wran
Labor

Elected Premier

Neville Wran
Labor

Elections were held in the state of New South Wales, Australia, on Saturday 24 March 1984. The Labor government led by Neville Wran won a fourth term in office, though with a reduced (if still sizeable) majority and a 7% swing against it.

As the two previous elections each saw the sitting Opposition Leader lose the election and failing to be elected to Parliament, the 1984 election saw Nick Greiner becoming the first Opposition Leader to lose an election and retain his seat since Pat Hills in 1974.

Independents Ted Mack and John Hatton retained their seats of North Shore and South Coast respectively. They were joined on the cross benches by a third independent and Bruce Duncan.

Duncan, a former National Country Party member, withdrew from the party in protest at their change to the National Party of Australia name. He ran on an "Independent Country Party" ticket and won his seat of Lismore.

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