COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA LEGISLATIVE ELECTION OF 12 DECEMBER 1906 ==================================================================== HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ==================================================================== VOTING BY CONSTITUENCY ==================================================================== TASMANIA ==================================================================== BASS, Tas ==================================================================== Northern Tasmania: Fingal, Launceston, Ringarooma, Scottsdale -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1903 majority: Protectionist over Free Trade 06.7 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 18,647 +06.1 Votes cast: 9,728 52.2 +10.1 Informal votes: 380 03.9 +01.5 Formal votes: 9,348 96.1 -01.5 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- William Oldham AS 3,522 37.7 -05.6 David STORRER * Prot 5,826 62.3 +05.6 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 9,348 12.3 -------------------------------------------------------------------- There was a swing of 5.6% from Anti-Socialist to Protectionist. -------------------------------------------------------------------- David Storrer (1854-1935): Elected 1903, 1906 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Storrer refused to support the Protectionist/Anti-Socialist fusion in 1908 and sat as an independent from 1909. -------------------------------------------------------------------- DARWIN, Tas ==================================================================== Northern Tasmania: Emu Bay, Leven, Queenstown, Zeehan -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1903 two-party majority: Labour over Protectionist 00.7 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 17,916 +11.2 Votes cast: 9,904 55.3 -02.7 Informal votes: 420 04.2 -00.7 Formal votes: 9,484 95.8 +00.7 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- Henry Bannister 849 08.9 William Lamerton AS 3,420 36.0 Hon King O'MALLEY * Lab 5,215 55.0 +04.6 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 9,484 09.5 08.8 to Lab -------------------------------------------------------------------- The Labour majority over the Anti-Socialists is compared with the Labour majority over the Protectionists in 1903. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Lamerton was Tas MHA for Zeehan 1903-06. -------------------------------------------------------------------- King O'Malley (1856-1953): Elected 1901, 1903, 1906 -------------------------------------------------------------------- DENISON, Tas ==================================================================== Hobart area: Hobart, Hobart South, New Town, Queenborough -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1903 majority: Protectionist over Free Trade 00.2 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 19,111 +15.1 Votes cast: 11,462 60.0 +08.2 Informal votes: 391 03.4 +00.4 Formal votes: 11,071 96.6 -00.4 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- William Brown 434 03.9 George Burns Lab 4,165 37.6 Hon Sir Philip FYSH * AS 6,473 58.5 +15.1 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 11,071 10.5 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Fysh stood as an Anti-Socialist having previously sat as a Protectionist. 2. Brown was Tas MHA for Campbell Town 1882-89, 1893-1903. He was an independent Protectionist candidate. 3. For Burns, see Illawarra 1913. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Philip Oakley Fysh (1835-1919): Elected 1901, 1903, 1906 Fysh retired in 1910. Died 20 December 1919 -------------------------------------------------------------------- FRANKLIN, Tas ==================================================================== Southern Tasmania: Brighton, Huon, New Norfolk, Port Cygnet -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1903 majority: Independent over Free Trade 04.6 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 17,591 +08.2 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- William McWILLIAMS * AS Unopposed -------------------------------------------------------------------- McWilliams stood for the Anti-Socialists having previously sat as an Independent. -------------------------------------------------------------------- William James McWilliams (1860-1929): Elected 1903, 1906 -------------------------------------------------------------------- WILMOT, Tas ==================================================================== Central Tasmania: Deloraine, Devonport, Kentish, Longford -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1903 majority: Free Trade over Protectionist 04.9 1904 by-election majority: Free Trade over Protectionist 02.0 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 16,944 +07.8 Votes cast: 9,100 53.7 +14.6 Informal votes: 392 04.3 +02.5 Formal votes: 8,708 95.7 -02.5 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- Llewellyn ATKINSON AS 3,935 45.2 -09.7 Hon Donald Cameron * 1,058 12.1 Charles Fenton Prot 510 05.9 -39.2 Thomas Wilson Lab 3,205 36.8 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 8,708 04.2 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Cameron, who failed to gain the Anti-Socialist endorsement for the seat, was an independent anti-socialist. 2. Fenton was Tas MHA for Wellington 1886-97. -------------------------------------------------------------------- > Donald Norman Cameron (1851-1931): Elected 1901. Defeated 1903. Elected 1904 By. Defeated 1906 Later career: Tas MHA for Wilmot 1912-13, 1925-28. Died 17 February 1931 > Llewellyn Atkinson (1867-1945): Elected 1906 Born: 18 December 1867, Launceston, Tasmania. Career: Educated Melbourne Grammar School and University of Melbourne. Barrister 1893. Practised, La Trobe, Tasmania. --------------------------------------------------------------------