Victorian state election, 1992

Victorian state election, 1992

1988 ← 3 October 1992 (1992-10-03) → 1996

All 88 seats in the Victorian Legislative Assembly and 22 (of the 44) seats in the Victorian Legislative Council   First party Second party   Leader Jeff Kennett Joan Kirner Party Liberal/National coalition Labor Leader since 23 April 1991 10 August 1990 Leader's seat Burwood Williamstown Last election 42 seats 46 seats Seats won 61 seats 27 seats Seat change 19 19 Percentage 56.30% 43.70% Swing 5.78 5.78

Premier before election Joan Kirner Labor Elected Premier Jeff Kennett Liberal/National coalition

Joan Kirner
Labor

Jeff Kennett
Liberal/National coalition

The 1992 Victorian state election, held on Saturday, 3 October 1992, was for the 52nd Parliament of Victoria. It was held in the Australian state of Victoria to elect all 88 members of the state's Legislative Assembly and 22 members of the 44-member Legislative Council.

The Labor government of Premier Joan Kirner, who had replaced John Cain on 10 August 1990, was defeated by the Liberal–National Coalition led by Jeff Kennett and Pat McNamara, who had campaigned on comprehensive economic and structural reform as well as changes to industrial relations.

At the 1988 state election, the Labor government had won a third term, gaining 46 of the 88 Legislative Assembly seats, but was sent reeling by a budget crisis. Despite this, polling indicated that the Liberal Opposition had been unable to gain any ground under Alan Brown, who had succeeded Jeff Kennett on 23 May 1989. Brown was, however, able to persuade the Nationals to agree to contest the next election as a Coalition, the first time the two main non-Labor parties in Victoria had fought an election together since 1950. The Liberals had actually won a majority of the two-party vote in 1988, but came up five seats short of making achieving government. It was believed that they had lost seats due to a number of three-cornered contests in rural areas.

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