NSW Elections - 1988 Results

Bligh - 1988 (Roll: 32,225)
Candidate	Party	Votes	%	Final	%
Independent gain from Liberal Party
Preferences required, Preferences counted to completion, Preferences changed primary result, No absolute majority for winning candidate
Aubrey, Ross	Labor Party	7,112	26.63
Yabsley, Michael Robert (Defeated)	Liberal Party	11,748	44.00	12,431	49.37
Thompson, Bruce Duncan	Call to Australia	293	1.10
Zingarelli, Joseph Albert	Australian Democrats	415	1.55
Moore, Clover (Elected)	Independent	7,135	26.72	12,748	50.63
Formal Votes		26,703
Informal / Exhausted Votes		944	3.41	1,524	5.71
Total Votes / Turnout		27,647	85.79
Notes: Clover Moore was a former South Sydney and later Sydney City Councillor. Like Frank Sartor, who contested neighbouring McKell, she had been serving on the Council and considering a run for the Lord Mayors position when the council was sacked in 1987. Like Sartor, she was also to serve as Lord Mayor, elected to the position after the re-combination of Sydney and South Sydney councils in 2004.