Iain Frederick Evans was born on 18 April 1959 and is a former Australian politician.
15 Facts About Iain Evans
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Iain Evans was leader of the South Australian Division of the Liberal Party of Australia from 2006 to 2007.
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Iain Evans later gained a bachelor's degree for Building Technology from the SA Institute of Technology.
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Iain Evans's father is Stan Evans and mother, Barb Evans.
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Iain Evans was elected in the 1993 election landslide for the safe conservative seat of Davenport.
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Iain Evans gained the Deputy Leadership in November 2005 and with the resignation of Kerin after the electoral defeat of 2006 became Leader of the South Australian Liberal Party in a joint leadership ticket with factional rival Vickie Chapman.
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At a meeting in Norwood, Iain Evans reportedly commented that "when we lose the federal election at the end of the year, the Liberal Party will be in dire straits and we have got to plan to deal with that".
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Party president Christopher Moriarty accused Iain Evans of being "piss-weak and gutless" for not backing a business plan aimed at assisting the party out of its parlous financial situation.
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High-ranking party members were canvassing support for an urgent no-confidence motion in Mr Moriarty, with one senior figure quoted as saying that "Moriarty is to the Liberal Party what Mark Latham was to Labor", but others counselled Iain Evans against challenging Moriarty due to the high chance of failure.
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Remarkably on 30 March 2010 exactly four years after he had been elected Liberal leader, Iain Evans stood for the deputy's job but was defeated by the man who toppled him for the leadership in 2007, Hamilton-Smith.
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Iain Evans was defeated by Hamilton-Smith for a leadership position in a rematch between the two former leaders.
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Iain Evans was overlooked for the deputy's job despite getting the support of Redmond.
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Hamilton-Smith stood aside but Iain Evans did not renominate for the job and it went instead to Mitch Williams.
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Iain Evans, contested the now vacant deputy's job but was defeated by his former deputy Vickie Chapman.
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Iain Evans suffered a 2.8-point two-party swing against him, reduced to a margin of 8.1 points in Davenport at the 2014 state election, with two-party swings against him of up to 8 points in some booths, including the traditionally Liberal-voting booth of Belair which Labor won by three votes.