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Oxley - 1984 (Roll: 40,303) Retained by National Party Preferences required, Preferences counted to completion Candidate Party Votes % Final % Giles, William Noel Australian Democrats 997 2.78 Jeffery, Bruce Leslie (Elected) National Party 15,769 43.92 21,387 62.74 Barrett, John Gregory Independent 8,677 24.17 Viskauskas, George Labor Party 10,457 29.13 12,699 37.26 Formal Votes 35,900 Informal / Exhausted Votes 511 1.40 1,814 5.05 Total Votes / Turnout 36,411 90.34 Notes: Sitting National Party MP Jim Brown retired. Turner's study of the 1984 election notes that John Barrett ran as an Independent after missing out on National Party pre-selection. He was later to contest the local Federal seat of Lyne as a Liberal candidate in 1993, and nontested the Port Macquarie by-election in 1995 as an Independent when the Liberal Party chose not to contest the seat. Distribution of Preferences Exclusion 1 Giles (DEM) Exclusion 2 Barrett (IND) Preferences New Totals Preferences New Totals Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes % Giles (DEM) -997 Jeffery (NAT) 509 58.51 16278 45.50 5109 71.11 21387 62.74 Barrett (IND) 195 22.41 8872 24.80 -8872 Viskauskas (ALP) 166 19.08 10623 29.70 2076 28.89 12699 37.26 Votes In Count 870 35773 7185 34086 Exhausted 127 12.74 127 0.35 1687 19.01 1814 5.05