Jim McGinty

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Jim McGinty

James Andrew "Jim" McGinty (born 22 September 1949) is an Australia

Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
n politician.

A member of the Australian Labor Party

Australian Labor Party

The Australian Labor Party is an List of political parties in Australia.Known as the Australian Labor Party#Etymology for short, the party is the current governing party of Australia, since the Australian federal election, 2007....
(ALP), he currently represents the Electoral district of Fremantle

Electoral district of Fremantle

Fremantle is an Electoral districts of Western Australia of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Western Australia....
in the Western Australian Legislative Assembly

Western Australian Legislative Assembly

The Legislative Assembly, or lower house, is one of the two chambers of parliament in the Australian state of Western Australia. It sits in Parliament House, Perth in the state capital, Perth, Western Australia....
. He held three key posts in the Gallop

Geoff Gallop

Geoffrey Ian Gallop, Order of Australia is an Australian academic and former politician. He was the Premier of Western Australia from 2001 to 2006....
and Carpenter

Alan Carpenter

Alan John Carpenter , Australian politician, was the 28th Premier of Western Australia from 26 January 2006 until 23 September 2008. He took office following the resignation of Dr Geoff Gallop....
Labor governments including that of Attorney General

Attorney-General of Western Australia

The Attorney-General of Western Australia is the member of the Government of Western Australia responsible for maintenance and improvement of Western Australia's system of law and justice....
, Minister for Health, and Minister for Electoral Affairs.

McGinty studied Arts and Law at the University of Western Australia

University of Western Australia

The University of Western Australia is the oldest university in the state of Western Australia. Established in February 1911, it is the only university in the state to be a member of the prestigious Group of Eight , as well as the Sandstone universities....
. Before entering politics, he worked as an industrial officer, then became Secretary of the Miscellaneous Workers' Union.

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James Andrew "Jim" McGinty (born 22 September 1949) is an Australia

Australia

Australian Labor Party

Electoral district of Fremantle

Western Australian Legislative Assembly

Geoff Gallop

Geoffrey Ian Gallop, Order of Australia is an Australian academic and former politician. He was the Premier of Western Australia from 2001 to 2006....
and Carpenter

Alan Carpenter

Attorney-General of Western Australia

University of Western Australia

By-election

A by-election or bye-election is an election held to fill a political office that has become vacant between regularly-scheduled elections....
for Fremantle in 1990, and has held the seat ever since. In the Lawrence ministry

Carmen Lawrence

Dr. Carmen Mary Lawrence , is an Australian politician; a former Premier of Western Australia and the first woman to become Premier of a State of the Commonwealth of Australia....
of 1991 – 1993 he served as Minister for Housing, Construction, Services, Heritage and Environment.

In 1994 Lawrence resigned to pursue a spot in federal politics, and was replaced as Leader of the State Opposition by her deputy, Ian Taylor. However Taylor resigned after only four months as leader, and McGinty unexpectedly replaced him as Leader of the Opposition. McGinty led the ALP until 1996, when he was replaced by Geoff Gallop

Geoff Gallop

Geoffrey Ian Gallop, Order of Australia is an Australian academic and former politician. He was the Premier of Western Australia from 2001 to 2006....
.

In the 2008 WA election

Western Australian state election, 2008

A general election was held in the States and territories of Australia of Western Australia on Saturday 6 September 2008 to elect 59 members to the Western Australian Legislative Assembly and 36 members to the Western Australian Legislative Council....
McGinty faced the prospect of losing his seat to Greens

Australian Greens

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candidate Adele Carles when the Liberal

Liberal Party of Australia

The Liberal Party of Australia is an List of political parties in Australia.Founded a year after the Australian federal election, 1943 to replace the United Australia Party, the centre-right Liberal Party competes with the centre-left Australian Labor Party for political office....
candidate Brian Christie and Carles were neck-and-neck. If Christie had finished third, most of his preferences would have been transferred to Carles (as Liberal and Labor are both rivals, they would almost certainly have not flowed to Labor), meaning that McGinty would have lost the election by over 3000 votes. Carles eventually slipped to third by 500 votes.