Robert John Randall is an

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politician. Randall was the

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MP for the

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seat of

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from 1979 to 1982. Randall was also Liberal State President from 2003 to 2005, and a former Liberal Mayor of Henley and Grange Council. He held membership, c. 1998, with the

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. Since 2008 he has held membership with Family First.

Politics

Randall first contested the since-abolished seat of

as a Liberal at the 1977 election. Randall won the seat as a Liberal at the 1979 election and from the 1980 Norwood by-election Randall was the one-term

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Liberal government's most marginal seat holder on a one percent margin before losing the seat at the 1982 election. He again contested the seat as a Liberal at the 1989 election. The seat of Colton was created at the 1991 redistribution to replace the abolished seat of Henley Beach. Randall once again contested Liberal

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, this time for the 1993 election, but was defeated by preselection winner Steve Condous who went on to win the seat. Randall contested Colton as an

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. Randall was the lead

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candidate for South Australia in the

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at the 1998 federal election. Randall later left the Christian Democrats and again became a Liberal, serving from 2003 to 2005 as South Australian Liberal State President.Former Liberal leader joins Family First: SMH 23 June 2008
/ref> Randall was the seventh and last Liberal candidate for the

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at the 2006 election. After joining Family First in 2008, Randall claimed the Liberals had "moved so far to the

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that we don't recognise it any more". Randall was the second Family First candidate for the Legislative Council at the 2010 election, the Family First candidate for the seat of Hindmarsh at both the 2010 federal election and 2013 federal election and the Family First candidate for the state seat of Morphett at the 2014 election.Morphett, 2014 SA election: Antony Green ABC
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References

External links

SA Parliament profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Randall, Bob Living people Members of the South Australian House of Assembly Liberal Party of Australia members of the Parliament of South Australia Christian Democratic Party (Australia) politicians Family First Party politicians Year of birth missing (living people)