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A general election for the 56th Parliament of New South Wales (NSW) was held on Saturday 28 March 2015. Members were elected to all 93 seats in the Legislative Assembly using optional preferential voting. Members were also elected to 21 of the 42 seats in the Legislative Council using optional preferential proportional representation voting. The election was conducted by the New South Wales Electoral Commission. The incumbent Liberal/National Coalition Government led by Premier Mike Baird and Deputy Premier Troy Grant was re-elected with a slightly reduced majority in the Legislative Assembly, where government is formed. The main Opposition Labor Party under Luke Foley won an increased share of the vote in most districts, though the party lost ground in some key races, including Foley's seat of Auburn. It managed to take 14 seats off the Coalition, mostly in areas of Labor "heartland" lost to the Liberals during the landslide in 2011. Most notably, Labor regained seats in west Sydney, the Central Coast and the lower Hunter. Baird had campaigned on a controversial plan to lease 49 per cent of the state-owned electricity distribution network (known as the "poles and wires") in order to deliver an ambitious transport and social infrastructure program. Labor, supported by the state's union movement, ran on an anti-privatisation platform, while also promising a moratorium on coal-seam gas (CSG) extraction, and encouraging voters to register a protest vote against the Liberal-led Coalition federal government. Although the poles-and-wires proposal was poorly received in opinion polls, Baird himself was widely liked by the electorate. Candidate nominations closed on 12 March and early voting began on the 16th. The election was notable for NSW in that: *this was the first time since 1973 that a non-Labor government had been reelected with an overall majority *one of the main party leaders, Labor's Foley, was not a member of the Legislative Assembly prior to the election *the Liberals' campaign to lease part of the State's electricity assets was supported by a number of senior Labor figures, who disagreed with their party's stance on "poles and wires" *the Greens won three seats in the Assembly, a record for a mainland state, and came close to winning a fourth *voters could vote online for the second time at a State general election using the iVote system run by the New South Wales Electoral Commission ==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「New South Wales state election, 2015」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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