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Ballina - 1988 (Roll: 31,988) Retained by National Party Preferences counted to completion Candidate Party Votes % Final % Mooney, Thomas Hilton Labor Party 8,240 28.12 9,159 32.00 Brown, Ivor William Australian Democrats 1,262 4.31 Page, Donald Loftus (Elected) National Party 18,022 61.50 19,465 68.00 Edwards, Di Independent 1,780 6.07 Formal Votes 29,304 Informal / Exhausted Votes 560 1.88 680 2.32 Total Votes / Turnout 29,864 93.36 Notes: New electorate with a notional National Party majority but no sitting MP. Distribution of Preferences Exclusion 1 Brown (DEM) Exclusion 2 Edwards (IND) Preferences New Totals Preferences New Totals Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes % Mooney (ALP) 369 40.24 8609 29.73 550 31.27 9159 32.00 Brown (DEM) -1262 Page (NAT) 234 25.52 18256 63.04 1209 68.73 19465 68.00 Edwards (IND) 314 34.24 2094 7.23 -2094 Votes In Count 917 28959 1759 28624 Exhausted 345 27.34 345 1.18 335 16.00 680 2.32