COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA EIGHTH PARLIAMENT ==================================================================== HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ==================================================================== BY-ELECTIONS ==================================================================== KALGOORLIE, WA ==================================================================== Outback Western Australia: Boulder, Hannans, Kalgoorlie, Yilgarn -------------------------------------------------------------------- 18 December 1920, following the expulsion from the House of Hon Hugh Mahon -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1919 two-party majority: ALP over Nationalist 02.1 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 20,789 -08.0 Votes cast: 16,434 79.1 -00.2 Informal votes: 113 00.7 -00.6 Formal votes: 16,321 99.3 +00.6 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- George FOLEY Nat 8,382 51.4 +03.5 Hon Hugh Mahon + ALP 7,939 48.6 -03.5 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 16,321 01.4 03.5 to Nat -------------------------------------------------------------------- Mahon was Member for Coolgardie 1901-13 and for Kalgoorlie 1913-17 and 1919-20. -------------------------------------------------------------------- George James Foley (1873-1945): Elected 1920 By Born: 1873, Walhalla, Victoria. Career: Educated state schools, Victoria. To Western Australia 1895, goldminer. Active miners union. Left ALP 1916. State politics: WA MLA for Leonora 1911-20. -------------------------------------------------------------------- This is the only House of Representatives by-election in which the Government has captured a seat from the Opposition. --------------------------------------------------------------------