COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA LEGISLATIVE ELECTION OF 16 DECEMBER 1922 ==================================================================== HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ==================================================================== VOTING BY DIVISION ==================================================================== WESTERN AUSTRALIA ==================================================================== FORREST, WA ==================================================================== Southern Western Australia: Albany, Katanning, Nelson, Williams -------------------------------------------------------------------- New seat: 1919 notional two-party majority: Country Party over ALP 14.6 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 33,946 Votes cast: 13,886 40.9 Informal votes: 1,303 09.4 Formal votes: 12,583 90.6 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- John PROWSE * CP 10,007 79.5 +33.1 Peter Wedd Nat 2,576 20.5 +00.3 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 12,583 29.5 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Prowse was member for Swan 1919-22. -------------------------------------------------------------------- John Henry Prowse (1871-1941): Elected 1919, 1922 -------------------------------------------------------------------- FREMANTLE, WA ==================================================================== Suburban Perth: Balcatta, Claremont, Fremantle, West Subiaco -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1919 two-party majority: Nationalist over ALP 10.8 Effect of redistribution: 04.5 shift to ALP New notional majority: Nationalist over ALP 06.3 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 34,986 -19.5 Votes cast: 19,002 54.3 -07.7 Informal votes: 742 03.9 +01.5 Formal votes: 18,260 96.1 -01.5 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- William Hedges + Nat 3,550 19.4 -34.1 John Holman ALP 7,290 39.9 -04.4 William Watson 7,420 40.6 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 18,260 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Hedges was member for Fremantle 1906-13. 2. Holman was WA MLA for North Murchison 1901-04, Murchison 1904-21, Forrest 1923-25. 3. Watson was a conservative independent (Australian Dictionary of Biography). -------------------------------------------------------------------- 2nd count: Hedges's 3,550 votes distributed -------------------------------------------------------------------- Holman 589 16.6 7,879 43.1 WATSON 2,961 83.4 10,381 56.9 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 3,550 18,260 06.9 -------------------------------------------------------------------- William Watson (1864-1938): Elected 1922 Born: 22 October 1864, Campbell's Creek, Victoria. Career: Educated public schools. Miner, bricklayer, farmer, Victoria. To Western Australia 1893. Bacon manufacturer, Fremantle. Local benefactor. -------------------------------------------------------------------- KALGOORLIE, WA ==================================================================== Outback Western Australia: Geraldton, Irwin, Kalgoorlie, Yilgarn -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1919 two-party majority: ALP over Nationalist 02.1 1920 by-election two-party majority: Nationalist over ALP 01.4 Effect of redistribution: 01.8 shift to Nationalist New notional majority: ALP over Nationalist 00.3 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 31,081 +37.5 Votes cast: 18,137 58.4 -20.9 Informal votes: 917 05.1 +03.8 Formal votes: 17,220 94.9 -03.8 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- George Foley * Nat 7,331 42.6 +09.9 Albert GREEN ALP 9,889 57.4 +08.9 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 17,220 07.4 07.1 to ALP -------------------------------------------------------------------- > George James Foley (1873-1945): Elected 1920 By. Defeated 1922 Died 27 October 1945 > Albert Ernest Green (1869-1940): Elected 1922 Born: 21 December 1869, Avoca, Victoria. Career: Educated state schools, Victoria. Bricklayer. To Western Australia 1895. Organiser, Australian Workers Union. Labor journalist. State politics: WA MLA for Kalgoorlie 1911-13, 1914-21. -------------------------------------------------------------------- PERTH, WA ==================================================================== Suburban Perth: East Perth, Maylands, North Perth, Subiaco -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1919 two-party majority: Nationalist over ALP 11.0 Effect of redistribution: 00.8 shift to Nationalist New notional majority: Nationalist over ALP 11.8 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 33,577 -08.9 Votes cast: 15,706 46.8 -11.6 Informal votes: 1,246 07.9 +01.3 Formal votes: 14,460 92.1 -01.3 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- Harry Bolton Nat 1,728 12.0 Alfred Carson Nat 2,125 14.7 Nils Clementsen ALP 4,951 34.2 -00.3 Hon James Fowler * 2,583 17.9 Edward Mann Nat 3,073 21.3 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 14,460 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Bolton was WA MLA for North Fremantle 1904-11, South Fremantle 1911-17. 2. Bolton, Carson and Mann were all endorsed Nationalist candidates (West Australian, 24 November 1922). 3. Fowler had broken with Hughes in 1919, calling him a mountebank. (He left the ALP in 1909 partly because of his dislike of Hughes.) As a result he was refused Nationalist endorsement and stood as an independent Nationalist. (Australian Dictionary of Biography) 3. The combined Nationalist vote was 45.0%, a decrease of 16.8% from the 61.8% polled by two Nationalist candidates in 1919. -------------------------------------------------------------------- 2nd count: Bolton's 1,728 votes distributed -------------------------------------------------------------------- Carson 708 41.0 2,833 19.6 Clementsen 91 05.3 5,042 34.9 Fowler * 417 24.1 3,000 20.7 Mann 512 29.6 3,585 24.8 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 1,728 14,460 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 3rd count: Carson's 2,833 votes distributed -------------------------------------------------------------------- Clementsen 409 14.4 5,451 37.7 Fowler * 1,397 49.3 4,397 30.4 Mann 1,027 36.3 4,612 31.9 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 2,833 14,460 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 4th count: Fowler's 4,397 votes distributed -------------------------------------------------------------------- Clementsen 496 11.3 5,947 41.1 MANN 3,901 88.7 8,513 58.9 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 4,397 14,460 08.9 02.9 to ALP -------------------------------------------------------------------- > James Mackinnon Fowler (1865-1940): Elected 1901, 1903, 1906, 1910, 1913, 1914, 1917, 1919. Defeated 1922 Died 3 November 1940 > Edward Alexander Mann (1874-1951): Elected 1922 Born: 11 August 1874, Mt Gambier, South Australia. Career: Educated privately and University of Melbourne. Chemist. Government chemist, Western Australia. Ex-Labor member. -------------------------------------------------------------------- SWAN, WA ==================================================================== Country Western Australia: Canning, Guildford, Northam, Swan -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1919 majority: FSA over ALP 08.0 Effect of redistribution: cannot be calculated -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 33,034 +06.6 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- Henry GREGORY * CP Unopposed -------------------------------------------------------------------- Gregory was member for Dampier 1913-22 (Dampier was abolished at the 1922 redistribution). -------------------------------------------------------------------- Henry Gregory (1860-1940): Elected 1913, 1914, 1917, 1919, 1922 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Deputy Leader of the Country Party --------------------------------------------------------------------