COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA THIRD PARLIAMENT ==================================================================== HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ==================================================================== BY-ELECTIONS ==================================================================== ADELAIDE, SA ==================================================================== Inner Adelaide: Adelaide, North Adelaide, Prospect, Walkerville -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1906 majority: none (Protectionist unopposed) -------------------------------------------------------------------- 13 June 1908, following the death of Rt Hon Charles Kingston -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 29,874 +02.7 Votes cast: 10,068 33.7 Informal votes: 60 00.6 Formal votes: 10,008 99.4 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- Alexander McLachlan 4,887 48.8 Ernest ROBERTS ALP 5,121 51.2 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 10,008 01.2 -------------------------------------------------------------------- For McLachlan, see Senate South Australia 1925. He was an independent anti-socialist candidate. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Ernest Alfred Roberts (1869-1913): Elected 1908 By Born: 21 February 1869, London, England. Career: Primary education. Seaman. Migrated 1889. Waterside worker, Port Pirie, Secretary Wharf Laborers Union. Military Service, South Africa, 1899-1902. Labor editor. Colonial/State politics: SA MHA for Gladstone 1896-1902, Adelaide 1905-08. --------------------------------------------------------------------