2023 New South Wales state election
25 March 2023
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All 93 seats in the Legislative Assembly and 21 (of the 42) seats in the Legislative Council 47 Assembly seats needed for a majority | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Registered | 5,521,688 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Turnout | 4,861,148 (88.04%) (2.96 pp) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 2023 New South Wales state election was held on 25 March 2023 to elect the 58th Parliament of New South Wales, including all 93 seats in the Legislative Assembly and 21 of the 42 seats in the Legislative Council. The election was conducted by the New South Wales Electoral Commission (NSWEC).
The incumbent minority Liberal–National Coalition government, led by Premier Dominic Perrottet, sought to win a fourth successive four-year term in office but was defeated by the Labor Party, led by Opposition Leader Chris Minns. The Greens, the Shooters, Fishers and Farmers Party, other minor parties and several independents also contested the election.
The outcome was the first Labor government in the state in 12 years, ending the longest period of Coalition government in New South Wales history.
The election was also the second time in history that the Australian Labor Party had gained control of the entirety of mainland Australia at the federal and state levels simultaneously (leaving Tasmania as the only state with a Liberal government), a feat that had last been achieved in 2007.
Though the Coalition was defeated, Labor was unable to win enough seats to govern with a majority, resulting in a hung parliament. However, Labor was able to form government with the support of independent MPs Alex Greenwich, Greg Piper, and Joe McGirr, who guaranteed Labor confidence and supply. Piper also made an agreement with Labor to become the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly, having previously served as a deputy speaker.
New South Wales has compulsory voting, with optional preferential, instant runoff voting in single-member electorates for the lower house, and single transferable voting with optional preferential above-the-line voting in the proportionally represented upper house.
The online voting system iVote was not used in the election. The NSW government had suspended the use of iVote after the 2021 NSW local council elections saw five wards affected by access outages, with three significant enough that an analysis suggested there was a 60% chance the wrong candidate had been elected. As a result, the NSW Supreme Court ordered that those elections be voided and re-run.