Stephen Mayne's complete electoral record


January 12, 2010

Stephen Mayne has participated in more contested elections than any other Australian. Here is a brief summary of his complete record in contested elections.

  1. December 11, 1999: by-election for Jeff Kennett's seat of Burwood, 6.7% to finish 3rd out of 5 (beat the Green)
  2. May 18, 2000: AMP, last with 33.89%. See results.
  3. October 23, 2000: ASX, last with 13.52%. See results.
  4. October 26, 2000: Commonwealth Bank, last with 39.71%. See results
  5. November 2, 2000: WA News, last with 28.41%. See results.
  6. November 9, 2000: Westfield Holdings, last with record low 0.37%. See results.
  7. November 20, 2000: Telstra, 7th out of 9 on 14.65% of the proxies with 5 incumbents re-elected. See results.
  8. November 20, 2000: Woolworths, 54.74% of proxies but defeated on show of hands in a very dubious process. See results.
  9. November 29, 2000: NRMA Insurance, 45.59% on the proxies before very dubious use of undirected proxies by Nick Whitlam. See results.
  10. December 11, 2000: David Jones, last with 11.46%. See results.
  11. December 14, 2000: NAB, last with 9.14%. See results.
  12. February 2001: Axa Asia Pacific, last with a very bad 1.1% due to French controlling shareholding. See results.
  13. July 2001: Melbourne Lord Mayor, 13th out of 19 with primary vote of 4.3%
  14. October 29, 2001: ASX, last with 10.69%. See results.
  15. November 1, 2001: Southern Cross Broadcasting, last with 3.85%. See results
  16. November 2, 2001: NRMA Insurance, last with 10.69%. See results.
  17. November 7, 2001: John Fairfax, last with 20.58%. See results.
  18. November 14, 2001: Spotless 6.5% of vote. See results
  19. November 16, 2001: Telstra, last out of 11 candidates with 4.76% and 5 incumbents re-elected. See results.
  20. November 27, 2001: PMP, last with 11.24%, other challenger got 15.62%. See results.
  21. June 2002: Melbourne Press Club committee, 17th and last.
  22. October 2, 2002: Copyright Agency Ltd, third out of four with top two elected
  23. October 9, 2002: News Corp, last with 12.89% of proxies but line-ball from the floor. See results
  24. October 2002: RACV, 4th of 5 with 2 incumbents re-elected.
  25. October 29, 2002: ASX, last with 18.7%. See results.
  26. May 2003: AMP, last with a very disappointing 11.41% which prompted two year retirement from board tilts. See results.
  27. October 14, 2005: RACV, last out of 4 and couldn't even beat my wife who came third as two incumbents returned.
  28. October 27, 2005: Gunns, last with 14.7%. See results.
  29. November 18, 2005: John Fairfax, last with 7.85%. See results.
  30. July 20, 2006: Macquarie Bank, last with respectible 15.49%. See results.
  31. November 14, 2006: Telstra, best of the five outside candidates with 9.53%. See results.
  32. November 24, 2006: Woolworths, last with 3.01%, a big contrast to 2000 tilt. See results.
  33. November 25, 2007: Victorian election, disappointing 1.33% for People Power in upper house Southern Metro region.
  34. November 9, 2007: WA News, got 18% of the proxies on a platform of giving the board some media experience. See results.
  35. November 24, 2007: Federal election in Higgins, 2% and finished 4th out of 8, getting more than Family First, the Democrats and the two other independents, which was a good outcome.
  36. April 23, 2008: West Australian Newspapers,14% of the vote. See results.
  37. May 1, 2008: Alumina, polled just 6% on a platform to break up the cosy lunch club board that runs this post box company. See results.
  38. September 2008: ASX, only attracted 5% direct support on a platform that ASX rescind waivers given to Babcock and Macquarie vehicles but the abstain vote of 20% suggested there was plenty of sympathy.See results.
  39. November 27, 2008: BHP Billiton, attracted 365.9 million votes or 12.38% of the total which was much higher than expected as shareholders supported the platform opposing the Rio Tinto takeover. See results.
  40. November 27, 2008: Centro Retail, recommended by proxy adviser Risk Metrics and received 435 million votes in favour which was 71% of the independent vote after deducting 1.1 billion shares voted against by Centro itself. See results.
  41. November 2008: was elected to Manningham Council in the Heidi ward where 3 of the 10 candidates got up. Received 19% of primary vote.
  42. June 2009: ran for the board of OZ Minerals and received only 101 million votes in favour and 1.2 billion against. See results.
  43. November 10, 2009: one of three outside challengers for Fairfax Media board but came last with just 3% in favour. See results.
  44. December 10, 2009: only received 0.9% of the vote at AGM of Ten Network Holdings.
  45. December 17, 2009: travelled to Brisbane for NAB AGM and did better than expected with 5.6% in favour.
  46. December 23, 2009: running for board of AWB.