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A by-election was held for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly seat of Ryde on 18 October 2008 to coincide with the Port Macquarie, Lakemba and Cabramatta by-elections. The by-election was triggered by the resignation of sitting member and Deputy Premier John Watkins, who cited exhaustion and the lack of time spent with his family for his resignation. Watkins resigned from parliament and his portfolio of Minister for Transport on 8 September 2008, prompting a Cabinet reshuffle. The by-election was won by Liberal candidate Victor Dominello on a swing of 23 percent. This was a marked turnaround to the result at the 2007 state election, when Dawkins was reelected with 60.09% of the two-party preferred vote.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher = New South Wales Electoral Commission ) 〕 However, at the time the writ was dropped, Labor had been sinking in the polls since being reelected a year earlier. It had suffered from several months of bad press that had driven its poll numbers downward. It was only polling at 44 percent support, a swing of almost eight percent from the 2007 election. Labor sat on a margin of 10.1 percent, which under normal circumstances would have been fairly safe. With Labor's declining poll numbers, however, commentators thought it was vulnerable to being taken by the Liberals. Dominello's victory turned Ryde from a safe Labor seat into a safe Liberal seat on paper in one stroke. At the time, it was the largest swing against a sitting government in New South Wales history; it has since been outdone by the 2010 Penrith by-election (which saw a 25 percent swing against Labor) and the 2013 Miranda by-election (which saw a 26 percent swing against the Coalition). The by-election came at a very bad time for the government. In addition to Labor's dwindling poll standing, Dawkins' resignation had touched off a domino effect that ultimately resulted in Premier Morris Iemma leaving politics as well. The loss of Ryde significantly weakened the standing of Iemma's successor, Nathan Rees, who would himself be ousted in a party room coup a year later. Labor would go on to suffer a landslide defeat at the 2011 state election. ==Results== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ryde state by-election, 2008」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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