2017_Cootamundra_state_by-election

2017 Cootamundra state by-election

Election result for Cootamundra, New South Wales, Australia

A by-election was held in the state electoral district of Cootamundra on 14 October 2017. The by-election was triggered by the resignation of Katrina Hodgkinson (National).^[1] The by-election was won by Steph Cooke for the National Party on preferences. The Nationals suffered a 20% swing on first preference votes and 10% on a two-party basis.

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The by-election was held on the same day as by-elections in Blacktown and Murray.

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Candidate nominations
Party		Candidate	Notes (not on ballot paper)
	Christian Democratic Party (Fred Nile Group)	Philip Langfield
	Greens NSW	Jeffrey Passlow	Formerly chief hospital pathology scientist and then a businessman, veteran environmentalist. Retired to a farm where he now raises boar goats and Wiltshire Horn sheep. He is an advocate for marriage equality and a transition to renewable energy.
	Shooters, Fishers and Farmers	Matthew Stadtmiller	Newspaper proprietor, former councillor and council candidate.
	Independent	Jim Saleam	Veteran anti-immigration activist and president of the Australia First Party, is standing as an Independent as the party is not registered for state elections.^[3]
	Country Labor	Charlie Sheahan	Councillor on Cootamundra-Gundagai Regional Council and farm manager who will seek to capitalise on opposition to forced council mergers in New South Wales.^[4]
	The Nationals	Steph Cooke	Businesswoman and 2017 NSW Florist of the Year.

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	National	Steph Cooke	21,093	46.2	−19.6
	Labor	Charlie Sheahan	10,930	24.0	−2.0
	Shooters, Fishers, Farmers	Matthew Stadtmiller	10,621	23.3	+23.3
	Christian Democrats	Philip Langfield	1,273	2.8	+0.5
	Greens	Jeffrey Passlow	1,238	2.7	−0.8
	Ind. Australia First	Jim Saleam	453	1.0	+1.0
Total formal votes			45,608	97.7	+0.4
Informal votes			1,057	2.3	−0.4
Turnout			46,665	87.2	−4.7
Two-party-preferred result
	National	Steph Cooke	24,114	60.5	−10.0
	Labor	Charlie Sheahan	15,769	39.5	+10.0
	National hold		Swing	−10.0

2017_Cootamundra_state_by-election

2017 Cootamundra state by-election

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