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Liberal and preselection
In July 1998, Liberal MP Peter McLellan, Member for Frankston East, resigned from the party in protest over alleged corrupt Liberal Party Senate preselection, changes to WorkCover and the auditor-general ’ s office.
Peacock gained Liberal preselection and was elected on 2 April, with a reduced majority.
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In 2001 Mirabella won preselection as the Liberal candidate to succeed Lou Lieberman as the member for Indi, standing against Sussan Ley, which she won in the 2001 federal election with a vote of 61. 15 % on a two-party preferred basis.
In March 2006, Josh Frydenberg, an investment banker and former political adviser, made known his intention to challenge Georgiou for his seat in an internal Liberal Party preselection.
Former state Liberal President Bob Tucker won preselection for the by-election, losing that contest to Labor's Leonie Short.
On 30 January 1995, he announced his nomination for the preselection contest for Bradfield, a safe Liberal seat in which Pymble was located and held since 1974 by shadow minister David Connolly.
" A bitter preselection campaign ensued, and on 13 May 1995 he gained the party's endorsement on a 96-to-93 vote, even though Connolly had the support of Liberal leader John Howard and deputy leader Peter Costello.
The incident attracted considerable publicity and there were calls from inside the Liberal Party to reverse his preselection, but he was supported by key decision-makers including the president of the NSW Liberal Party.
He is regarded as being from the conservative end of the South Australia Liberal Party, and defeated Liberal Senate leader and former Defence Minister Robert Hill, a moderate, in a preselection battle for the seat in 1994.
For the 1985 election, an electoral redistribution left both Brown and Stan Evans vying for Liberal preselection for the safe Liberal seat of Davenport.
Brown won preselection, but Evans stood as an Independent Liberal and won the seat.
At the 1992 state election, Doyle succeeded in winning Liberal preselection for the electorate of Malvern by defeating Geoff Leigh.
* Former South Australian state Liberal minister Robert Brokenshire contested the 2007 federal election for the party, and subsequently won preselection to replace retiring founder Evans in the state Legislative Council.
In April 2007, facing near-certain defeat in a preselection challenge by Liberal Party vice-president Mathias Cormann, he announced that he would retire at the end of his term in the Senate.
In 2007, following sitting member Bruce Baird's retirement, the seat attracted significant media attention due to the controversial preselection of Liberal candidate Michael Towke.
Liberal Party preselection for the 2010 Federal election was local Wyong Shire councillor and small business manager John McNamara.
He lost preselection again for the 2010 election, but once again the state executive intervened and restored him as Liberal candidate.
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This was to ultimately result in receiving preselection for the safe Liberal seat of East Yarra at the 1996 state election.

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