1991 New South Wales state election

Elections to the 50th Parliament of New South Wales were held on Saturday 25 May 1991. All seats in the Legislative Assembly and half the seats in the Legislative Council were up for election. The Liberal–National Coalition government of Premier Nick Greiner, which enjoyed a considerable majority following their landslide win at the 1988 election, was seeking a second term in office against new Labor Opposition Leader Bob Carr.

1991 New South Wales state election
25 May 1991
All 99 seats in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly
and 15 (of the 44) seats in the New South Wales Legislative Council
50 Assembly seats were needed for a majority
  First party Second party
 
Leader Nick Greiner Bob Carr
Party Liberal/National coalition Labor
Leader since 15 March 1983 6 April 1988
Leader's seat Ku-ring-gai Maroubra
Last election 59 seats 43 seats
Seats won 49 46
Seat change 10 3
Popular vote 1,377,314 1,204,066
Percentage 44.68% 39.05%
Swing 4.87 0.56
TPP 52.69% 47.31%
TPP swing 3.27 3.27
Two-candidate-preferred margin by electorate
Premier before election

Nick Greiner
Liberal/National coalition

 Resulting Premier

Nick Greiner
Liberal/National coalition

The government had reduced the number of lower house seats from 109 to 99 for the 1991 election, reversing an increase approved by the Unsworth Labor government.

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