September 2015 Liberal Party of Australia leadership spill

Liberal Party of Australia
Leadership spill, September 2015
	Leadership election
Leader before election; Tony Abbott;	Elected Leader ; Malcolm Turnbull;
	Deputy leadership election
Deputy before election; Julie Bishop;	Elected Deputy ; Julie Bishop;

A motion seeking a leadership spill of the federal parliamentary leader of the Liberal Party of Australia and Prime Minister was proposed by Malcolm Turnbull, who requested the ballot on 14 September 2015. The incumbent Prime Minister, Tony Abbott, announced that a meeting of Liberal members of the House and Senate would take place at 9:15 pm AEST on 14 September 2015 for the purpose of a spill motion.^[1]^[2]^[3] During the meeting a vote was held for the leadership and deputy leadership. Turnbull defeated Abbott, 54 votes to 44, becoming the leader of the Liberal Party of Australia and Prime Minister-nominee. Julie Bishop retained her position of deputy leader defeating Kevin Andrews 70 votes to 30.^[4]

With no contender, a February 2015 leadership spill motion had seen Abbott defeat a motion to spill the leadership 61 votes to 39.

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