COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA LEGISLATIVE ELECTION OF 17 NOVEMBER 1928 ==================================================================== HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ==================================================================== VOTING BY DIVISION ==================================================================== WESTERN AUSTRALIA ==================================================================== FORREST, WA ==================================================================== Southern Western Australia: Albany, Katanning, Nelson, Williams -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1925 two-party majority: Country Party over ALP 10.9 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 40,754 -01.0 Votes cast: 36,821 90.3 +00.4 Informal votes: 1,309 03.6 +00.1 Formal votes: 35,512 96.4 -00.1 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- Cornelius Buckley ALP 14,049 39.6 +00.5 John PROWSE * CP 21,463 60.4 -00.5 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 35,512 10.4 00.5 to ALP -------------------------------------------------------------------- John Henry Prowse (1871-1944): Elected 1919, 1922, 1925, 1928 -------------------------------------------------------------------- FREMANTLE, WA ==================================================================== Suburban Perth: Balcatta, Claremont, Fremantle, West Subiaco -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1925 majority: Independent over ALP 08.1 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 43,864 +11.6 Votes cast: 40,785 93.0 +00.8 Informal votes: 1,253 03.1 +00.7 Formal votes: 39,532 96.9 -00.7 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- John Curtin ALP 19,433 49.2 +07.3 Frank Gibson Nat 11,402 28.8 Keith Watson 8,697 22.0 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 39,532 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Gibson was WA MLA for Fremantle 1921-24, WA MLC for Metropolitan- Suburban 1942-50, Suburban 1950-56. 2. Watson was WA MLC for Metropolitan 1948-68. -------------------------------------------------------------------- 2nd count: Watson's 8,697 votes distributed -------------------------------------------------------------------- CURTIN 1,156 13.3 20,589 52.1 Gibson 7,541 86.7 18,943 47.9 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 8,697 39,532 02.1 -------------------------------------------------------------------- John Joseph Ambrose Curtin (1885-1945): Elected 1928 Born: 8 January 1885, Creswick, Victoria. Career: Educated state schools, Melbourne. Factory worker, labor journalist. Briefly imprisoned as anti-conscriptionist. Secretary Timberworkers Union. To Western Australia 1917. Labor editor 1917-28. -------------------------------------------------------------------- KALGOORLIE, WA ==================================================================== Outback Western Australia: Geraldton, Irwin, Kalgoorlie, Yilgarn -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1925 two-party majority: ALP over Nationalist 07.6 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 29,149 -01.4 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- Albert GREEN * ALP Unopposed -------------------------------------------------------------------- Albert Ernest Green (1869-1940): Elected 1922, 1925, 1928 -------------------------------------------------------------------- PERTH, WA ==================================================================== Suburban Perth: East Perth, Maylands, North Perth, Subiaco -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1925 two-party majority: Nationalist over ALP 12.8 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 40,731 +04.9 Votes cast: 37,386 91.8 +00.5 Informal votes: 1,803 04.8 +01.5 Formal votes: 35,583 95.2 -01.5 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- John McCoo 1,499 04.2 Edward MANN * Nat 22,002 61.8 -01.0 Arthur Watts ALP 12,082 34.0 -03.2 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 35,583 14.9 e 02.1 to Nat -------------------------------------------------------------------- Watts was WA MLA for Northam 1904-05. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Edward Alexander Mann (1874-1951): Elected 1922, 1925, 1928 -------------------------------------------------------------------- On 10 September 1929 Mann was one of four Nationalist members who voted in committee against the Maritime Services Bill, leading to the fall of the Government. He was expelled from the Nationalist Party as a result. -------------------------------------------------------------------- SWAN, WA ==================================================================== Country Western Australia: Canning, Guildford, Northam, Swan -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1925 two-party majority: Country Party over ALP 16.2 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 48,648 +10.2 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- Henry GREGORY * CP Unopposed -------------------------------------------------------------------- Henry Gregory (1860-1940): Elected 1913, 1914, 1917, 1919, 1922, 1925, 1928 --------------------------------------------------------------------