1996 SENATE NEW SOUTH WALES 58th count: Coonan's 27,637 surplus votes distributed -------------------------------------------------------------------- WOODS * E 526,041 14.3 ELECTED 1 BROWNHILL * E 526,041 14.3 ELECTED 3 COONAN E 526,041 14.3 ELECTED 5 Sperling 313 (01.1) 145,141 03.9 WEST * E 526,041 14.3 ELECTED 2 CHILDS * E 526,041 14.3 ELECTED 4 Wheelwright * 48 (00.2) 322,500 08.8 Bourne * 350 (01.3) 381,195 10.4 Sims 26,912 (97.4) 202,364 05.5 (exhausted 12 704 ) (lost by fraction 2 174 ) -------------------------------------------------------------------- > 27,637 3,682,283 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 59th count: Sperling's 145,141 surplus votes distributed -------------------------------------------------------------------- WOODS * E 526,041 14.3 ELECTED 1 BROWNHILL * E 526,041 14.3 ELECTED 3 COONAN E 526,041 14.3 ELECTED 5 WEST * E 526,041 14.3 ELECTED 2 CHILDS * E 526,041 14.3 ELECTED 4 Wheelwright * 5,206 (03.6) 327,706 08.9 Bourne * 136,289 (94.1) 517,484 14.1 Sims 3,413 (02.4) 205,777 05.6 (exhausted 250 954 ) (lost by fraction -17 157 ) -------------------------------------------------------------------- > 145,141 3,682,283 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 60th count: Sims's 205,777 surplus votes distributed -------------------------------------------------------------------- WOODS * E 526,041 14.4 ELECTED 1 BROWNHILL * E 526,041 14.4 ELECTED 3 COONAN E 526,041 14.4 ELECTED 5 WEST * E 526,041 14.4 ELECTED 2 CHILDS * E 526,041 14.4 ELECTED 4 Wheelwright * 71,696 (40.2) 399,402 10.9 BOURNE * 106,675 (59.8) 624,159 17.1 ELECTED 6 (exhausted 267 1,221 ) (lost by fraction 0 157 ) (undistributed 27,139 27,139 ) -------------------------------------------------------------------- > 205,777 3,682,283 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Senators' terms began 1 July 1996. Bourne, Brownhill, Childs, Coonan, West and Woods elected for a term ending 30 June 2002. Continuing senators (term to end 30 June 1999): Michael BAUME (Lib), Hon John FAULKNER (ALP), Michael FORSHAW (ALP), Sandy McDONALD (NPA), Belinda NEAL (ALP), John TIERNEY (Lib) -------------------------------------------------------------------- > Michael Ehrenfried Baume (born 1930): Elected 1984, 1987, 1993 Resigned place 9 September 1996 (see Appointments) Later career: Consul-General in New York. > Vicki Worrall Bourne (born 1954): Elected 1990, 1996 > David Gordon Cadell Brownhill (born 1935): Elected 1984, 1987, 1990, 1996 Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Trade from 11 March 1996 Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Primary Industries and Energy 11 March 1996 to 6 October 1997 > Bruce Kenneth Childs (born 1934): Elected 1980, 1983, 1984, 1987, 1990, 1996 Resigned place 10 September 1997 (see Appointments) > Helen Lloyd Coonan (born 1947): Elected 1996 Born 29 October 1947, Wagga Wagga NSW Career: Educated Sydney University. Barrister and solicitor, mediator, author. > John Philip Faulkner (born 1954): Appointed 1989. Elected 1993 Minister for Environment Sport and Territories to 11 March 1996 Appointed Delegate to the 1998 Constitutional Convention > Michael George Forshaw (born 1952): Appointed 1994 > John Alexander Lindsay Macdonald (born 1954): Elected 1993 > Belinda Jane Neal (born 1963): Appointed 1994 Resigned place 3 September 1998 (see Appointments) Later career: Contested the House of Representatives at Robertson, NSW, 1998, defeated > John William Tierney (born 1946): Appointed 1991. Elected 1993 > Suzanne West (born 1947): Appointed 1987. Defeated 1987. Elected 1990, 1996 Appointed Delegate to the 1998 Constitutional Convention > Thomas Clive Wheelwright (born 1953): Appointed 1995. Defeated 1996 > Robert Leslie Woods (born 1947): Appointed 1994. Elected 1996 Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Health and Family Services 11 March 1996 to 3 February 1997 Resigned place 7 March 1997 (see Appointments) -------------------------------------------------------------------- Woods resigned following revelations about his personal life and allegations of misuse of parliamentary entitlements. --------------------------------------------------------------------