COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA LEGISLATIVE ELECTION OF 16 DECEMBER 1903 ==================================================================== HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ==================================================================== VOTING BY CONSTITUENCY ==================================================================== WESTERN AUSTRALIA ==================================================================== COOLGARDIE, WA ==================================================================== Outback Western Australia: Coolgardie, Menzies, Mt Leonora, Mt Magnet -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1901 two-party majority: Labour over Free Trade 02.8 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 21,686 +35.8 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- Hugh MAHON * Lab Unopposed -------------------------------------------------------------------- Hugh Mahon (1857-1931): Elected 1901, 1903 Postmaster-General 27 April 1904 to 17 August 1904 -------------------------------------------------------------------- FREMANTLE, WA ==================================================================== Suburban Perth: Canning, Claremont, Fremantle, Murray -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1901 two-party majority: Free Trade over Labour 10.3 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 19,511 +16.4 Votes cast: 6,021 30.9 -00.2 Informal votes: 408 06.8 +04.0 Formal votes: 5,613 93.2 -04.0 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- William CARPENTER Lab 3,439 61.3 +25.1 Elias Solomon * FT 2,174 38.7 -18.0 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 5,613 11.3 21.6 to Lab -------------------------------------------------------------------- > Elias Solomon (1839-1909): Elected 1901. Defeated 1903 Died 23 May 1909 > William Henry Carpenter (1863-1930): Elected 1903 Born: 5 April 1863, Wiltshire, England. Career: Primary education. Migrated 1886. Railways foreman, South Australia. To Fremantle 1902, leading unionist. Colonial/State politics: SA MHA for Encounter Bay 1896-1902. -------------------------------------------------------------------- KALGOORLIE, WA ==================================================================== Outback Western Australia: Boulder, Hannans, Ivanhoe, Kalgoorlie -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1901 majority: Free Trade over Independent 14.1 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 23,208 +23.4 Votes cast: 9,019 38.9 Informal votes: 286 03.2 Formal votes: 8,733 96.8 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- Charles FRAZER Lab 5,820 66.6 John Kirwan * FT 2,913 33.4 -30.7 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 8,733 16.6 -------------------------------------------------------------------- > John Waters Kirwan (1869-1949): Elected 1901. Defeated 1903 Later career: Press proprietor and leading business figure. WA MLC for South-Western Province 1908-46. President of the Legislative Council 1926-46. Knighted 1930. Died 9 September 1949 > Charles Edward Frazer (1880-1913): Elected 1903 Born: 1880, Yarrawonga, Victoria. Career: Primary education. To Western Australian goldfields 1895. Railway worker, President Enginedrivers Union, Secretary Kalgoorlie Trades Hall Council. -------------------------------------------------------------------- PERTH, WA ==================================================================== Inner Perth: Guildford, North Perth, Perth, Subiaco -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1901 two-party majority: Labour over NLPL 09.1 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 27,105 +46.7 Votes cast: 6,193 22.8 -08.3 Informal votes: 354 05.7 +03.9 Formal votes: 5,839 94.3 -03.9 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- James FOWLER * Lab 4,248 72.8 +13.7 Harry Venn FT 1,591 27.2 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 5,839 22.8 13.7 to Lab -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. The Labour majority over Free Trade is compared with the Labour majority over the Protectionists in 1901. 2. Venn was WA MLC for Wellington 1880-90, WA MLA for Wellington 1890-1901. -------------------------------------------------------------------- James Mackinnon Fowler (1865-1940): Elected 1901, 1903 -------------------------------------------------------------------- SWAN, WA ==================================================================== Country Western Australia: Albany, Collie, Northam, Williams -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1901 majority: none (Protectionist unopposed -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 25,432 +33.7 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- Rt Hon Sir John FORREST * Prot Unopposed -------------------------------------------------------------------- John Forrest (1847-1918): Elected 1901, 1903 Minister for Home Affairs to 27 April 1904 Treasurer from 5 July 1905 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Forrest was one of the group of conservative Protectionists who supported an alliance with Reid against Labour. Despite this, he refused office under Reid out of loyalty to Deakin and served in Deakin's second ministry. He formed the Western Australian Party to contest the 1906 election. --------------------------------------------------------------------