COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA
LEGISLATIVE ELECTION OF 31 MAY 1913
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SENATE ELECTION
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TASMANIA (Three senators to be elected)
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Enrolled voters:                          106,746         +08.4
Votes cast:                                80,398   75.3
Informal votes:                             4,998   06.2
Formal votes:                              75,400   93.8
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Candidate                      Party        Votes   %
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Thomas BAKHAP                   Lib        39,331   52.2  ELECTED 2
Hon Cyril Cameron *                         4,615   06.1
Hon John CLEMONS *              Lib        38,249   50.7  ELECTED 3
James Guy                       ALP        35,062   46.5
James Hurst                     ALP        34,583   45.9
Hon John KEATING *              Lib        39,409   52.3  ELECTED 1
James Ogden                     ALP        34,951   46.4
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Total                                     226,200
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1. Percentages shown are percentages of 75,400, 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. For Guy, see Senate Tasmania 1914.
3. Hurst was Tas MHA for Darwin 1910-12, 1919-26.
4. For Ogden, see Senate Tasmania 1922.
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Senators' terms began 1 July 1913. Bakhap, Clemons and Keating 
elected for a term ending 30 June 1919. Continuing senators (term 
to end 30 June 1916): James LONG (ALP), Hon David O'KEEFE (ALP), 
Rudolph READY (ALP).
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> Thomas Jerome Kingston Bakhap (1866-1923): Elected 1913 
Born: 29 October 1866, Ballaarat, Victoria
Career: No formal education. Shopworker, tinminer at Lottah, 
Tasmania. Chinese interpreter. 
State politics: Tas MHA for Bass 1909-13
> Cyril St Clair Cameron (1857-1941): Elected 1901. Defeated 1903. 
Elected 1906. Defeated 1913
Later career: Pastoralist. Military Service 1914-18.
Died 22 December 1941
> John Singleton Clemons (1862-1944): Elected 1901, 1906, 1913
Minister without portfolio from 24 June 1913
> John Henry Keating (1872-1940): Elected 1901, 1906, 1913
> James Joseph Long (1870-1932): Elected 1910
> David John O'Keefe (1864-1943): Elected 1901. Defeated 1906. 
Elected 1910
> Rudolph Keith Ready (1878-1958): Elected 1910
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Bakhap's father was a Chinese migrant called Bak Hap. He was the 
first, and until 1990 the only, person of Asian descent elected to 
the Commonwealth Parliament.
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