New England by-election, 2017

A by-election for the Australian House of Representatives seat of New England will be held on 2 December 2017.

The trigger for the by-election was the judgment of the High Court of Australia sitting as the Court of Disputed Returns on 27 October 2017, which found that the sitting member, Nationals Leader and Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce, was ineligible under Section 44 of the Constitution to sit in the Parliament of Australia, by virtue of holding New Zealand citizenship at the time of his nomination and election.

Speaker of the House of Representatives Tony Smith issued the writ for the election on 27 October, the same day as the High Court's judgment.

Former independent member Tony Windsor, who retired at the 2013 election but contested the seat against Joyce in 2016, announced he would not be nominating as a candidate in the by-election.

Joyce subsequently renounced New Zealand citizenship, making him eligible for this by-election.

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