COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA LEGISLATIVE ELECTION OF 13 APRIL 1910 ==================================================================== SENATE ELECTION ==================================================================== WESTERN AUSTRALIA (Three senators to be elected) ==================================================================== Enrolled voters: 134,979 -07.2 Votes cast: 83,916 62.2 +26.0 Informal votes: 4,544 05.4 -01.3 Formal votes: 79,372 94.6 +01.3 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Richard BUZACOTT ALP 43,032 54.2 ELECTED 2 Hon Hugh DE LARGIE * ALP 41,205 51.9 ELECTED 3 Nathaniel Harper Lib 35,948 45.3 George HENDERSON * ALP 44,215 55.7 ELECTED 1 Walter Kingsmill Lib 37,263 46.9 Archibald Sanderson Lib 36,453 45.9 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 238,116 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Percentages shown are percentages of 79,372, 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. Harper was WA MLA for Beverley 1901-11, Pingelly 1911-14. 3. For Kingsmill, see Senate Western Australia 1922. 4. Sanderson was WA MLC for Metropolitan-Suburban 1912-22. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Senators' terms began 1 July 1910. Buzacott, de Largie and Henderson elected for a term ending 30 June 1916. Continuing senators (term to end 30 June 1913): Patrick LYNCH (ALP), Edward NEEDHAM (ALP), Hon George PEARCE (ALP). -------------------------------------------------------------------- > Richard Buzacott (1867-1933): Elected 1910 Born: 1867, Clare, South Australia Career: Educated state schools, South Australia. Miner, Broken Hill, NSW. In Western Australia from 1900. President, Amalgamated Miners Association. President Australian Labour Federation 1904. State politics: WA MLA for Menzies 1908 > Hugh de Largie (1859-1947): Elected 1901, 1903, 1910 > George Henderson (1861-1929): Elected 1903, 1910 > Patrick Joseph Lynch (1867-1944): Elected 1906 > Edward Needham (1872-1956): Elected 1906 > George Foster Pearce (1870-1952): Elected 1901, 1906 Minister for Defence from 29 April 1910 --------------------------------------------------------------------