COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA LEGISLATIVE ELECTION OF 29-30 MARCH 1901 ==================================================================== SENATE ELECTION ==================================================================== TASMANIA (Six senators to be elected) ==================================================================== Enrolled voters: 38,870 Votes cast: 18,820 48.4 Informal votes: 417 02.2 Formal votes: 18,403 97.8 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Jonathan Best FT 962 05.2 Cyril CAMERON Prot 1,452 07.9 ELECTED 5 John CLEMONS FT 2,520 13.7 ELECTED 2 Hon Henry DOBSON FT 1,566 08.5 ELECTED 4 John KEATING Prot 3,761 20.4 ELECTED 1 James MACFARLANE FT 1,199 06.5 ELECTED 6 William Moore Prot 968 05.3 Arthur Morrisby 188 01.0 Henry Murray FT 740 04.0 David O'KEEFE Prot 1,904 10.3 ELECTED 3 Alfred Page 414 02.2 Robert Patterson FT 585 03.2 Donald Urquhart 1,156 06.3 James Waldron 758 04.1 Joseph Woolnough 230 01.2 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 18,403 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Since Tasmania was the only state to conduct its Senate election on a one voter one vote basis, it is the only state in which the actual number of voters is known. The total formal vote for the House of Representatives in Tasmania in 1901 was 18,041. This confirms the view that the actual number of voters in the other five states was higher than the number of votes divided by six. 2. O'Keefe joined the Labour Party Caucus when the Parliament met. 3. Best was Tas MHA for Deloraine 1894-97, 1899-1909, Wilmot 1909-12. 4. Moore was Tas MHA for Wellington 1871-77, Tas MLC for Mersey 1877-85, Russell 1885-1909. 5. Morrisby was Tas MLC for Gordon 1899-1916. 6. Murray was Tas MHA for East Devon 1891-97, La Trobe 1897-98, Devonport 1899-1900, La Trobe 1902-09. 7. Page was Tas MLC for Macquarie 1887-1909. 8. Patterson was Tas MHA for Hobart 1900-03, South Hobart 1903-04. 9. Urquhart was Tas MHA for Cumberland 1893, Montagu 1894-1900, Zeehan 1900-03, Devonport 1906-09. 10. Woolnough was Tas MHA for Sorrell 1893-1903. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Senators' terms began 30 March 1901. Clemons, Keating and O'Keefe elected for a term to end on 31 December 1906. Cameron, Dobson and Macfarlane elected for a term to end on 31 December 1903. -------------------------------------------------------------------- > Cyril St Clair Cameron (1857-1941): Elected 1901 Born: 5 December 1857, Launceston, Tasmania Career: Educated Launceston Grammar School, Edinburgh University. Pastoralist and professional soldier. Served Afghanistan 1878-80, South Africa 1899-1900. ADC to Governor-General. Warden of Evandale. Brother of Donald Cameron MP. > John Singleton Clemons (1862-1944): Elected 1901 Born: 1862, Tasmania Career: Educated Launceston Grammar School, Oxford University. Barrister. > Henry Dobson (1841-1919): Elected 1901 Born: 24 December 1841, Hobart Career: Educated Hutchins School. Barrister 1864. Investor and philanthropist. Colonial politics: Tas MHA for Brighton 1891-1900. Leader of the Opposition 1891-92, Premier 1892-94. > John Henry Keating (1872-1940): Elected 1901 Born: 28 June 1872, Hobart Career: Educated St Ignatius College, Sydney and University of Sydney. Barrister 1894. > James Macfarlane (1844-1914): Elected 1901 Born: 1844, Glasgow, Scotland Career: Educated Bruce Coastal School, London, England. Worked with shipping firm. Migrated 1870. Merchant and shipping agent. > David John O'Keefe (1864-1943): Elected 1901 Born: 21 August 1864, Longford, Tasmania Career: Educated state schools. Farm worker and miner. Labor journalist. Organiser, Australian Workers Union. -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Keating, 28 at the time of the 1901 election, was the youngest member of either house of the First Parliament. 2. There was no organised Labour Party in Tasmania in 1901. O'Keefe is shown as a Protectionist, but he was in effect a Labour candidate. He joined the Labour Caucus in 1901.