COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA LEGISLATIVE ELECTION OF 13 DECEMBER 1919 ==================================================================== HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ==================================================================== VOTING BY DIVISION ==================================================================== SOUTH AUSTRALIA ==================================================================== ADELAIDE, SA =================================================================== Inner Adelaide: Adelaide, North Adelaide, Prospect, Walkerville -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1917 majority: none (ALP unopposed) -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 34,476 00.0 Votes cast: 21,492 62.3 Informal votes: 785 03.7 Formal votes: 20,707 96.3 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- Reginald BLUNDELL Nat 10,523 50.8 Edwin Yates * ALP 10,184 49.2 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 20,707 00.8 -------------------------------------------------------------------- > George Edwin Yates (1871-1959): Elected 1914 By, 1914, 1917. Defeated 1919 Later career: See Adelaide 1922. > Reginald Pole Blundell (1873-1945): Elected 1919 Born: 4 February 1873, Adelaide. Career: Primary education. Tobacco worker and tobacco worker union official. President Adelaide Trades and Labor Council. Left ALP 1916. State politics: SA MHA for South Adelaide 1907-18. Minister for Industry 1915-17, Minister for Marine 1915-17, Minister for Repatriation 1917-18, Minister for Industry 1917-18. -------------------------------------------------------------------- ANGAS, SA ==================================================================== Country South Australia: Angaston, Eudunda, Gawler, Kapunda -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1917 two-party majority: Nationalist over ALP 00.8 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 29,940 +00.7 Votes cast: 19,300 64.5 -05.1 Informal votes: 615 03.2 -01.3 Formal votes: 18,685 96.8 +01.3 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- Moses GABB ALP 9,468 50.7 +01.5 Hon Patrick Glynn * Nat 9,217 49.3 -01.5 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 18,685 00.7 01.5 to ALP -------------------------------------------------------------------- > Patrick McMahon Glynn (1855-1931): Elected 1901, 1903, 1906, 1910, 1913, 1914, 1917. Defeated 1919 Minister for Home and Territories to 3 February 1920 Died 28 October 1931 > Joel Moses Gabb (1882-1951): Elected 1919 Born: 1882, Adelaide. Career: Educated Prince Edward College, Adelaide. Church worker, greengrocer. -------------------------------------------------------------------- BARKER, SA ==================================================================== South-east South Australia: Glenelg, Mt Barker, Mt Gambier, Strathalbyn -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1917 two-party majority: Nationalist over ALP 13.9 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 39,045 +00.3 Votes cast: 24,307 62.3 -07.9 Informal votes: 2,238 09.2 +05.8 Formal votes: 22,069 90.8 -05.8 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- Albert Davies ALP 7,023 31.8 -04.3 John LIVINGSTON * Nat 13,233 60.0 -03.9 Alexander Williams 1,813 08.2 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 22,069 14.1 e 00.2 to Nat -------------------------------------------------------------------- John Livingston (1856-1935): Elected 1906, 1910, 1913, 1914, 1917, 1919 Livingston retired in 1922. Later career: Grazier. Died 4 September 1935 -------------------------------------------------------------------- BOOTHBY, SA ==================================================================== Suburban Adelaide: Mitcham, Norwood, St Peters, Unley -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1917 two-party majority: Nationalist over ALP 14.5 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 46,773 +01.7 Votes cast: 31,493 67.3 -06.8 Informal votes: 2,341 07.4 +04.3 Formal votes: 29,152 92.6 -04.3 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- George Illingworth 1,779 06.1 William STORY * Nat 18,501 63.5 -01.0 Stanley Whitford ALP 8,872 30.4 -05.1 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 29,152 16.6 e 02.1 to Nat -------------------------------------------------------------------- Whitford was SA MLA for North Adelaide 1921-27, SA MLC for Central No 1 1929-41. -------------------------------------------------------------------- William Harrison Story (1857-1924): Elected 1917, 1919 -------------------------------------------------------------------- GREY, SA ==================================================================== Outback South Australia: Gladstone, Melrose, Petersburg, Port Pirie -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1917 two-party majority: Nationalist over ALP 07.7 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 33,826 -02.2 Votes cast: 23,101 68.3 -01.8 Informal votes: 616 02.7 -00.8 Formal votes: 22,485 97.3 +00.8 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- Charles Gray ALP 10,843 48.2 +05.9 Hon Alexander POYNTON * Nat 11,642 51.8 -05.9 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 22,485 01.8 05.9 to ALP -------------------------------------------------------------------- Alexander Poynton (1853-1935): Elected 1901, 1903, 1906, 1910, 1913, 1914, 1917, 1919 Honorary Minister to 4 February 1920 Minister for Home and Territories 4 February 1920 to 21 December 1921 Postmaster-General from 21 December 1921 -------------------------------------------------------------------- HINDMARSH, SA ==================================================================== Suburban Adelaide: Goodwood, Hindmarsh, Port Adelaide, Thebarton -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1917 two-party majority: Nationalist over ALP 05.8 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 49,772 +04.7 Votes cast: 34,380 69.1 -05.8 Informal votes: 906 02.6 -00.9 Formal votes: 33,474 97.4 +00.9 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- Hon William Archibald * Nat 16,279 48.6 -07.2 Norman MAKIN ALP 17,195 51.4 +07.2 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 33,474 01.4 07.2 to ALP -------------------------------------------------------------------- > William Archibald (1852-1926): Elected 1910, 1913, 1914, 1917. Defeated 1919 Later career: Bookseller. Died 28 June 1926 > Norman John Oswald Makin (1889-1982): Elected 1919 Born: 31 March 1889, Sydney. Career: Educated public schools, Broken Hill, NSW. Patternmaker, union official. President South Australian ALP 1918-19. -------------------------------------------------------------------- WAKEFIELD, SA ==================================================================== Country South Australia: Balaklava, Kadina, Kooringa, Moonta -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1917 two-party majority: Nationalist over ALP 06.2 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 34,403 -00.4 Votes cast: 24,018 69.8 -03.2 Informal votes: 2,133 08.9 -05.5 Formal votes: 21,885 91.1 +05.5 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Foster * Nat 10,872 49.7 -06.5 Edward Stokes ALP 8,067 36.9 -06.9 Herbert Tuck F&S 2,946 13.5 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 21,885 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 2nd count: Tuck's 2,946 votes distributed -------------------------------------------------------------------- FOSTER * 1,908 64.8 12,780 58.4 Stokes 1,038 35.2 9,105 41.6 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 2,946 21,885 08.4 02.2 to Nat -------------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Witty Foster (1856-1932): Elected 1909 By, 1910, 1913, 1914, 1917, 1919 --------------------------------------------------------------------