COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA
FIFTH PARLIAMENT
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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
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BY-ELECTIONS
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ADELAIDE, SA
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Inner Adelaide: Adelaide, North Adelaide, Prospect, Walkerville
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10 January 1914, following the death of Hon Ernest Roberts
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1913 two-party majority: ALP over Liberal 18.4
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Enrolled voters:                         36,657        +07.9
Votes cast:                              12,002  32.7  -43.2
Informal votes:                              73  00.6  -05.7
Formal votes:                            11,929  99.4  +05.7
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Candidate                       Party   Votes    %     Swing
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Edward Craigie                  Lib       1,857  15.6  -13.8
Edwin YATES +                   ALP      10,072  84.4  +18.2
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Total                                    11,929  34.4   16.0 to ALP
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George Edwin Yates (1871-1959): Elected 1914 By
Born: 14 May 1871, Staffordshire, England.
Career: Migrated as child. Primary education. Commercial traveller. 
Labor activist and union secretary. Secretary United Labor Party 
1911-14. 
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