1988 Oxley by-election

Candidates

• Independent - Michael Darby. Darby had previously contested Werriwa in New South Wales in the 1974 election for the Liberal Party. He later contested Dickson in the supplementary election in 1993 as an independent, and was fifth on the Liberal ticket for the Senate in New South Wales in 2004. In 2007 he contested Dobell for the Christian Democrats.
• Independent - Otto Kuhne. Kuhne later contested McPherson in the 1990 election as an independent, and Fadden in the 1993 election as a Natural Law Party candidate.
• National Party of Australia - Barry Hoffensetz, the party's 1987 candidate.
• Liberal Party of Australia - David Cooke.
• Australian Labor Party - Les Scott, a bank officer.

  Results