COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA
LEGISLATIVE ELECTION OF 12 DECEMBER 1906
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SENATE ELECTION
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WESTERN AUSTRALIA (Three senators to be elected)
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Enrolled voters:                          145,473         +24.4
Votes cast:                                52,712   36.2
Informal votes:                             3,550   06.7
Formal votes:                              49,162   93.3
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Candidate                      Party        Votes   %
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Charles Clarke                 WAP         21,540   43.8
Patrick LYNCH                  Lab         26,270   53.4  ELECTED 3
Henry Mills                    WAP         23,121   47.0
Edward NEEDHAM                 Lab         26,938   54.8  ELECTED 2
Hon George PEARCE *            Lab         28,852   58.7  ELECTED 1
Edward Wittenoom               WAP         20,765   42.2
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Total                                     147,486
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1. Percentages shown are percentages of 49,162, indicating the 
proportion of voters who supported each candidate. The percentages 
column will thus add up to 300%, since each voter cast three votes.
2. Wittenoom was WA MLC for Geraldton 1883-84, 1885-86, Central 
1894, 1895-98, North 1902-06, 1910-34.
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Senators' terms began 1 January 1907. Lynch, Needham and Pearce 
elected for a term ending 30 June 1913. Continuing senators (term to 
end 30 June 1910): John CROFT (Lab), Hon Hugh DE LARGIE (Lab), 
George HENDERSON (Lab).
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> John William Croft (1870-1913): Elected 1903
Croft retired in 1910.
Died 1913
> Hugh de Largie (1859-1947): Elected 1901, 1903
> George Henderson (1861-1929): Elected 1903
> Patrick Joseph Lynch (1867-1944): Elected 1906 
Born: 1867, Ireland
Career: Educated Ireland. Migrated 1886. Goldminer, farmworker, 
ship's stoker, enginedriver. General Secretary Western Australian 
Goldfields Enginedrivers Association. Boulder City Council.
State politics: WA MLA for Mt Leonora 1904-06. Minister for Public 
Works 1905.
> Edward Needham (1872-1956): Elected 1906 
Born: 30 September 1872, Lancashire, England.
Career: Educated Catholic schools England. Coalminer, shipyard 
worker. Migrated 1900. Boilermaker, Fremantle, Western Australia. 
Union and Labour Party official. Brother-in-law of Rt Hon John 
Curtin, MP.
State politics: WA MLA for Fremantle 1904-05.
> George Foster Pearce (1870-1952): Elected 1901, 1906
Minister for Defence 13 November 1908 to 2 June 1909
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