Legislative elections for the Victorian Legislative Assembly and for half the seats in the Victorian Legislative Council were held on Saturday October 1, 1988. John Cain's Labor government maintained a narrow majority on the floor of the Legislative Assembly. The Legislative Assembly, or lower house, is one of the two chambers of the parliament of Victoria in Australia. ... The Legislative Council, or upper house, is one of the two chambers of the Parliament of Victoria, Australia. ... October 1 is the 274th day of the year (275th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... John Cain John Cain (born 26 April 1931), Australian politician, was Labor Premier of the state of Victoria from 1982 to 1990. ... The Legislative Assembly, or lower house, is one of the two chambers of the parliament of Victoria in Australia. ...

The Campaign

The campaign was dominated by the governments handling of the Victorian Economic Development Corporation scandal but Labor was able limit its losses to just one seat - Warrandyte - to due an effective strategy of targeting Liberal leader Jeff Kennett whose aggressive leadership style was still seen as a liability as well as the instability in the federal Coalition due to the Joh for Canberra campaign. ^[1] A scandal is a widely publicized incident involving allegations of wrong-doing, disgrace, or moral outrage. ... The Liberal Party of Australia is an Australian liberal conservative political party. ... This article or section contains information that has not been verified and thus might not be reliable. ... The Coalition in Australian politics refers to the grouping of two political parties that has existed in the form of a coalition agreement since 1922, with only brief breaks (e. ... The Joh for Canberra or Joh for PM campaign was the 1987 attempt of the Queensland branch of the National Party of Australia to install Queensland Premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen as Prime Minister of Australia. ...

Labor also ran a successful strategy of targeting marginal middle class seats, enabling it to win a majority of seats despite winning less than 50% of the two party preferred vote. Instant-runoff voting (IRV) (also known as the Alternative Vote and by several other names) is an electoral system used for single winner elections in which voters rank candidates in order of preference. ...

Legacy

Jeff Kennett was dumped as Liberal leader in 1989 in a party room coup. Alan Brown led the party until, he too, was deposed in another party room coup which returned Kennett to the leadership. 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Alan John Brown (born 25 January 1946), Australian politician, was an Liberal member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly and Leader of the Opposition from 1989-1991. ...

Due to the narrow result the belief that had the Liberals and the Nationals had been in Coalition they would have won government. Despite what Political Scientist Brian Costar called a 'lack of psephological evidence to support this assertion' this belief led to pressure from the business community that led to the formation of the first Liberal-National Coalition in Victoria over forty years. ^[2] The National Party of Australia is an Australian political party. ... See also: Political Science Notable political scientists Kenneth Arrow - Nobel Memorial Prize winning economist who published influential paper on his widely cited Arrows Impossibility Theorem Robert Axelrod Duncan Black - Responsible for unearthing the work of many early political scientists, including Charles Dodgson Jean-Charles de Borda - 18th century mathematician... Psephology is a term for the statistical study of elections. ...

Results

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References

1. ^ B.J Costar & N. Economou, 'Elections and Electoral Change 1982-92' in M. Considine & B. J Costar (eds) Trials in Power: Cain, Kirner and Victoria 1982-92, Melbourne University Press, 1992, p 255-6.
2. ^ B.J Costar, 'Coalition Government: An Unequal Partnership' in B.J Costar & N. Economou (eds) The Kennett Revolution: Victorian Politics in the 1990s, UNSW Press, Sydney, 1998, p. 89