COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA LEGISLATIVE ELECTION OF 16 DECEMBER 1903 ==================================================================== HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ==================================================================== BY-ELECTIONS 1903-1906 ==================================================================== WILMOT, Tas ==================================================================== Central Tasmania: Deloraine, Devonport, Kentish, Longford -------------------------------------------------------------------- 26 February 1904, following the death of Rt Hon Sir Edward Braddon -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1903 majority: Free Trade over Protectionist 04.9 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 15,718 00.0 Votes cast: 4,704 29.9 -09.2 Informal votes: 153 03.3 +01.5 Formal votes: 4,551 96.7 -01.5 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- Donald CAMERON FT 2,368 52.0 -02.9 John Cheek Prot 2,183 48.0 +02.9 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 4,551 02.0 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. There was a swing of 2.9% from Free Trade to Protectionist. 2. Cameron was a member for Tasmania 1901-03. 3. Cheek was Tas MLC for Westmorland 1907-13, 1919-42. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Donald Norman Cameron (1851-1931): Elected 1901. Defeated 1903. Elected 1904 By -------------------------------------------------------------------- MELBOURNE, Vic ==================================================================== Inner Melbourne: Bourke, East Melbourne, Lonsdale, West Melbourne -------------------------------------------------------------------- 30 March 1904, following the voiding of the election of Sir Malcolm McEacharn -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1903 two-party majority: Protectionist over Labour 00.2 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: unknown Votes cast: 16,700 Informal votes: 225 01.3 -00.1 Formal votes: 16,475 98.7 +00.1 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- Sir Malcolm McEacharn Prot 7,808 47.4 -02.8 Dr William MALONEY Lab 8,667 52.6 +02.8 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 16,475 02.6 02.8 to Lab -------------------------------------------------------------------- McEacharn was member for Melbourne 1901-03. -------------------------------------------------------------------- William Robert Nuttal Maloney (1854-1940): Elected 1904 By Born: 12 April 1854, Melbourne. Career: Educated Scotch College, Melbourne and English medical school. Doctor, Melbourne from 1888. Social worker and reform agitator. Colonial/State politics: Vic MLA for West Melbourne 1889-1903. -------------------------------------------------------------------- RIVERINA, NSW ==================================================================== Southern NSW: Berrigan, Deniliquin, Hay, Moama -------------------------------------------------------------------- 18 May 1904, following the voiding of the election of Robert Blackwood -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1903 two-party majority: Free Trade over Protectionist 00.0 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 19,031 +04.8 Votes cast: 10,995 57.8 +08.9 Informal votes: 264 02.4 00.0 Formal votes: 10,731 97.6 00.0 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert Blackwood FT 5,184 48.3 -01.7 Hon John CHANTER Prot 5,547 51.7 +01.7 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 10,731 01.7 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. There was a swing of 1.7% from Free Trade to Protectionist. 2. Blackwood was member for Riverina 1903-04 3. Chanter was member for Riverina 1901-03. -------------------------------------------------------------------- > Robert Officer Blackwood (1861-1940): Elected 1903. Election void 1904. Defeated 1904by Later career: President Pastoralists Union, Royal Agricultural Society, Director BHP. Died 22 September 1940 > John Moore Chanter (1845-1931): Elected 1901. Defeated 1903. Elected 1904by --------------------------------------------------------------------