COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA LEGISLATIVE ELECTION OF 13 APRIL 1910 ==================================================================== HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ==================================================================== VOTING BY CONSTITUENCY ==================================================================== TASMANIA ==================================================================== BASS, Tas ==================================================================== Northern Tasmania: Fingal, Launceston, Ringarooma, Scottsdale -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1906 majority: Protectionist over Anti-Socialist 12.3 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 20,905 +12.1 Votes cast: 11,882 56.8 +04.6 Informal votes: 248 02.1 -01.8 Formal votes: 11,643 97.9 +01.8 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- Jens JENSEN ALP 6,612 56.8 David Storrer * 5,022 43.2 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 11,643 06.8 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Storrer was an independent protectionist candidate. -------------------------------------------------------------------- > David Storrer (1854-1935): Elected 1903, 1906. Defeated 1910 Died 13 November 1935 > Jens August Jensen (1856-1936): Elected 1910 Born: 1865, Victoria. Career: Primary education. Orchardist. Beaconsfield Council. State politics: Tas MHA for George Town 1903-09, Wilmot 1909 -------------------------------------------------------------------- DARWIN, Tas ==================================================================== Northern Tasmania: Emu Bay, Leven, Queenstown, Zeehan -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1906 two-party majority: Labour over Anti-Socialist 09.5 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 20,145 +12.4 Votes cast: 10,796 53.6 -01.7 Informal votes: 234 02.1 -02.1 Formal votes: 10,862 97.9 +02/1 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- William Fisher Lib 3,881 36.7 +00.7 Hon King O'MALLEY * ALP 6,681 63.3 +08.3 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 10,862 13.3 03.8 to ALP ------------------------------------------------------------------- Fisher was Tas MLC for Huon 1880-82. -------------------------------------------------------------------- King O'Malley (1856-1953): Elected 1901, 1903, 1906, 1910 Minister for Home Affairs from 29 April 1910 -------------------------------------------------------------------- DENISON, Tas ==================================================================== Hobart area: Hobart, Hobart South, New Town, Queenborough -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1906 two-party majority: Anti-Socialist over Labour 10.5 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 19,670 +02.9 Votes cast: 12,701 64.6 +04.6 Informal votes: 359 02.8 -00.6 Formal votes: 12,342 97.2 +00.6 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- Matthew Simmons Lib 5,172 41.9 William LAIRD SMITH ALP 7,170 58.1 +20.5 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 12,342 08.1 18.6 to ALP -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. The Liberal vote of 41.9% was a decline of 20.5% from the 62.4% polled by one Protectionist and one Anti-Socialist candidate in 1906. 2. Laird Smith appeared second on the ballot paper because his name was legally Smith. -------------------------------------------------------------------- William Henry Laird Smith (1869-1942): Elected 1910 Born: 15 September 1869, Tasmania. Career: Educated Devonport Grammar School. Electrician, electrical engineer. Official, engineers union. -------------------------------------------------------------------- FRANKLIN, Tas ==================================================================== Southern Tasmania: Brighton, Huon, New Norfolk, Port Cygnet -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1906 majority: none (Anti-Socialist unopposed) -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 19,914 +13.2 Votes cast: 12,264 61.6 Informal votes: 354 02.9 Formal votes: 11,910 97.1 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- William McWILLIAMS * Lib 6,356 53.4 William Shoobridge ALP 5,554 46.6 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 11,910 03.4 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Shoobridge was Tas MHA for Franklin 1916-19, 1922-25, Wilmot 1925- 28, 1929-31. -------------------------------------------------------------------- William James McWilliams (1860-1929): Elected 1903, 1906, 1910 -------------------------------------------------------------------- WILMOT, Tas ==================================================================== Central Tasmania: Deloraine, Devonport, Kentish, Longford -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1906 two-party majority: Anti-Socialist over Labour 04.2 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 17,822 +05.2 Votes cast: 9,966 55.9 +02.2 Informal votes: 252 02.5 -01.8 Formal votes: 9,714 97.5 +01.8 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- Llewellyn ATKINSON * Lib 5,498 56.6 Thomas Wilson ALP 4,216 43.4 +06.6 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 9,714 06.6 02.4 to Lib -------------------------------------------------------------------- The Liberal vote of 56.6% was a decrease of 6.6% from the 63.2% polled by one Protectionist and two Anti-Socialist candidates (one of them Atkinson) in 1906. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Llewellyn Atkinson (1867-1945): Elected 1906, 1910 --------------------------------------------------------------------