The Norwood state by-election, 1980 was a

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held on 16 February 1980 for the

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seat of Norwood. The seat had been held by former

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and

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MHA

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from the 1953 state election, until his resignation in February 1979. The subsequent March 1979 by-election was won by Labor's

Greg Crafter Gregory John Crafter (born 16 September 1944) is a former South Australian Labor Party politician. He was the member for Norwood from 1979 to 1993, with a short break from September 1979 to February 1980. Crafter was elected in a March 1979 ...

, but Crafter lost to the Liberal Party's Frank Webster at the September 1979 state election. The 1979 state election result was overturned because the

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found that a Liberal Party advertisement in an Italian language newspaper, which described Webster as "your representative" ("''il vostro deputato''"), gave the false impression that Webster was the sitting member.Red Silk: The Life of Elliott Johnston, QC
Penelope Debelle, Wakefield Press, 2011 Therefore, a by-election was held in February 1980, and Crafter regained the seat.

Result

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Result

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