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{{Short description|Election result for Mosman, New South Wales, Australia}}
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A by-election was held for the [[New South Wales Legislative Assembly]] seat of [[Electoral district of Mosman|Mosman]] on Saturday, 29 July 1972.<ref name="Green"/> It was triggered by the retirement of the former [[Leader of the New South Wales Liberal Party]] and Minister of the Crown, [[Pat Morton]].<ref name="Morton NSW parl">{{Cite NSW Parliament |id=1712 |name=Mr (Pat) Philip Henry Morton (1910–1999) |former=Yes |access-date=11 May 2019}}</ref>

The seat was subsequently won by [[David Arblaster]] ({{Australian politics/name|Liberal NSW}}). Despite Mosman being a safe Liberal seat, the Labor Party fielded a candidate. The Liberal primary vote fell 11.1% compared to the previous year's general election. The same four parties contested both.<ref name=ec2/>

==Background==
The seat of Mosman, a traditionally safe Liberal seat, had been held since 1947 by Pat Morton, who became Leader of the Liberal Party in 1955 until being deposed in 1959 by [[Robert Askin]].

As a [[Minister for Highways (New South Wales)|Minister for Highways]] and [[Minister for Local Government (New South Wales)|Local Government]] in the [[Askin–Cutler ministry (1965–68)|Askin Government from 1965]], Morton gained a reputation as being a strong advocate for allowing free enterprise and business to take precedence over planning controls and government regulation. His time as Minister was marked by increasing strains on state infrastructure and his pro-development stance was largely attributed as an attempt to alleviate these problems. Despite this, Morton and his State Planning Authority were continuously criticised for not being totally accountable to the public, particularly as the pro-business Sydney Commissioners worked side by side with the Planning authority to increase developments in the Sydney CBD to their highest levels ever, embodied by the construction of the [[MLC Centre]], the demolition of the [[Theatre Royal, Sydney]] and the [[Australia Hotel]].<ref name=retire/> Among the most controversial schemes undertaken by his government were also a massive freeway system that was planned to be driven through the hearts of historic inner-city suburbs including [[Glebe, New South Wales|Glebe]] and [[Newtown, New South Wales|Newtown]] and an equally ambitious scheme of '[[slum clearance]]' that would have brought about the wholesale destruction of the historic areas of [[Woolloomooloo]] and [[The Rocks, New South Wales|The Rocks]]. This eventually culminated in the 1970s [[Green ban]] movement led by the secretary of the NSW Builders' Labourers Federation, [[Jack Mundey]], to protect the architectural heritage of Sydney.<ref name=retire>{{cite news |url= https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=acpQAAAAIBAJ&sjid=f-UDAAAAIBAJ&pg=2298,5630604 |title=A free enterpriser bows out |newspaper=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]] |date=16 June 1972 |page=4 |via=Google News Archive |access-date=2011-02-02}}</ref>

At the [[1971 New South Wales state election|1971 election]], Askin's majority was reduced by four seats to the Labor Party under [[Pat Hills]]. Morton retained his seat, despite his primary vote falling to 62.7% from 73.5% in the [[1968 New South Wales state election|1968 election]].<ref name=ec2>{{cite NSW election  |year=1971 |district=Mosman |access-date=24 July 2020}}</ref> Morton remained as member until 16 June 1972, when he retired from parliament. At the time of his departure it had been rumoured that he had been threatening to dismiss [[Blacktown City Council]] if they did not stop blocking a $200 million development in [[Mount Druitt, New South Wales|Mount Druitt]].<ref name=retire/>

==Results==
<noinclude>The Liberal Party retained the seat, albeit on a significantly reduced margin, due in part to several major party candidates splitting the Liberal vote. The Liberal candidate, David Arblaster, emerged with 51% of the primary vote against Labor candidate and founding member of the Women's Electoral Lobby, [[Anne Conlon]]. [[Neil Mackerras]], brother of prominent psephologist [[Malcolm Mackerras]] and orchestra conductor [[Charles Mackerras|Sir Charles Mackerras]], stood as the [[Democratic Labor Party (historical)|Democratic Labor Party]] candidate.
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{{Election box begin
|title=<includeonly>[[1972 Mosman state by-election|</includeonly>1972 Mosman by-election<includeonly>]]</includeonly><br>Saturday 29 July{{hsp}}<ref name="Green">{{cite NSW election |title=1972 Mosman by-election |year=1971 |district=Mosman_1 |access-date=24 July 2020}}</ref>
}}
{{Election box candidate AU party
|candidate = [[David Arblaster]]
|party = Liberal NSW
|votes = 10,805 		 	
|percentage = 51.6 
|change = -11.1
}}

{{Election box candidate AU party
|candidate = [[Anne Conlon]]
|party = Labor NSW
|votes = 5,381 	 		 
|percentage = 25.7
|change = +6.2
}}

{{Election box candidate AU party
|candidate = [[Bridget Gilling]]
|party = Australia
|votes = 2,757 	 	 
|percentage = 13.2
|change = +3.2
}}

{{Election box candidate AU party
|candidate = [[Neil Mackerras]]
|party = DLP
|votes = 1,996 	 	
|percentage = 9.5
|change = +1.7
}}

{{Election box formal
|votes = 20,939
|percentage = 98.4
|change = +0.1
}}

{{Election box informal
|votes = 340 			 
|percentage = 1.6  
|change = -0.1
}}

{{Election box turnout
  |votes      = 21,279 			
  |percentage = 75.3
  |change     = -16.1
}}

{{Election box hold AU party
  |winner     = Liberal NSW
  |swing      = -11.1
}}

{{Election box end}}<includeonly>
[[Pat Morton]] ({{Australian politics/name|Liberal NSW}}) resigned.<ref name="Green"/></includeonly>

==See also==
*[[Electoral results for the district of Mosman]]
*[[List of New South Wales state by-elections]]

==References==
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{{NSW by-elections 43rd parl|state=expanded}}
{{Results of New South Wales state elections}}

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