COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA LEGISLATIVE ELECTION OF 5 MAY 1917 ==================================================================== HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ==================================================================== VOTING BY CONSTITUENCY ==================================================================== TASMANIA ==================================================================== BASS, Tas ==================================================================== Northern Tasmania: Fingal, Launceston, Ringarooma, Scottsdale -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1914 two-party majority: ALP over Liberal 06.0 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 22,998 +03.0 Votes cast: 16,613 72.2 -06.8 Informal votes: 478 02.9 +01.4 Formal votes: 16,135 97.1 -01.4 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- Hon Jens JENSEN * Nat 9,669 59.9 +15.9 James Mooney + ALP 6,466 40.1 -15.9 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 16,135 09.9 15.9 to Nat -------------------------------------------------------------------- Jens August Jensen (1856-1936): Elected 1910, 1913, 1914, 1917 Minister for Trade and Customs to 13 December 1918 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Jensen was dismissed after an adverse finding of the Royal Commission on Navy and Defence Administration. -------------------------------------------------------------------- DARWIN, Tas ==================================================================== Northern Tasmania: Emu Bay, Leven, Queenstown, Zeehan -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1914 two-party majority: ALP over Liberal 06.1 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 19,043 -04.4 Votes cast: 15,835 83.2 +04.6 Informal votes: 401 02.5 +00.3 Formal votes: 15,434 97.5 -00.3 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- Charles HOWROYD Nat 9,073 58.8 +14.9 Hon King O'Malley * ALP 6,361 41.2 -14.9 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 15,434 08.8 14.9 to Nat -------------------------------------------------------------------- > King O'Malley (1856-1953): Elected 1901, 1903, 1906, 1910, 1913, 1914. Defeated 1917 Later career: Author and businessman. Died 20 December 1953 > Charles Richard Howroyd (1867-1917): Elected 1917 Born: 1867, Yorkshire, England. Career: Educated England. Migrated 1887. Agent and stockbroker. Founding member Labour Party. Left ALP 1916. State politics: Tas MHA for North Launceston 1906-09, Bass 1909-17. Died 10 May 1917 (see By-elections) -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Howroyd died five days after polling day, making him the shortest-serving member in the history of the House of Representatives. Had he died before polling day, O'Malley would have been declared elected unopposed (see Kennedy, 1925). 2. By the time of his death in 1953 O'Malley was the last surviving member of the First Parliament elected in March 1901. -------------------------------------------------------------------- DENISON, Tas ==================================================================== Hobart area: Hobart, Hobart South, New Town, Queenborough -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1914 two-party majority: ALP over Liberal 05.9 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 25,350 +09.3 Votes cast: 20,047 79.1 +01.6 Informal votes: 576 02.9 -00.1 Formal votes: 19,471 97.1 +00.1 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- Hon William LAIRD SMITH * Nat 10,964 56.3 +12.2 Benjamin Watkins + ALP 8,507 43.7 -12.2 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 19,471 06.3 12.2 to Nat -------------------------------------------------------------------- Watkins was Tas MHA for Queenstown 1906-09, Darwin 1909-17, Franklin 1919-22, 1925-34. -------------------------------------------------------------------- William Henry Laird Smith (1869-1942): Elected 1910, 1913, 1914, 1917 -------------------------------------------------------------------- FRANKLIN, Tas ==================================================================== Southern Tasmania: Brighton, Huon, New Norfolk, Port Cygnet -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1914 majority: none (Liberal unopposed) -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 22,590 +03.3 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- William McWILLIAMS * Nat Unopposed -------------------------------------------------------------------- William James McWilliams (1860-1929): Elected 1903, 1906, 1910, 1913, 1914, 1917 -------------------------------------------------------------------- WILMOT, Tas ==================================================================== Central Tasmania: Deloraine, Devonport, Kentish, Longford -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1914 two-party majority: Liberal over ALP 10.9 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 18,700 +00.1 Votes cast: 13,378 71.5 -02.5 Informal votes: 566 04.2 +01.3 Formal votes: 12,812 95.8 -01.3 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- Llewellyn ATKINSON * Nat 7,874 61.5 +00.6 Hon Donald Cameron 590 04.6 Christopher Sheedy ALP 4,240 33.1 -06.0 Louis Page 108 00.8 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 12,812 14.2 03.3 to Nat -------------------------------------------------------------------- Cameron was a member for Tasmania 1901-03 and member for Wilmot 1904-06. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Llewellyn Atkinson (1867-1945): Elected 1906, 1910, 1913, 1914, 1917 --------------------------------------------------------------------