COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA TWELFTH PARLIAMENT ==================================================================== BY-ELECTIONS ==================================================================== FRANKLIN, Tas ==================================================================== Southern Tasmania: Kingborough, Moonah, Nelson, New Norfolk -------------------------------------------------------------------- 14 December 1929, following the death of William McWilliams -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1929 majority: Independent over Nationalist 04.9 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 24,473 +02.6 Votes cast: 22,520 92.0 +00.3 Informal votes: 931 04.1 -02.2 Formal votes: 21,589 95.9 +02.2 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- Archibald Blacklow Nat 5,003 23.2 Francis Foster 820 03.8 Charles Frost ALP 9,615 44.5 Peter Murdoch 1,476 06.8 Alfred Seabrook Nat 4,675 21.7 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 21,589 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. For Blacklow, see Franklin 1931. 2. Foster was Tas MHA for Wilmot 1937-41. He was an independent Nationalist candidate. 3. Murdoch was Tas MHA for Franklin 1922-28. 4. Seabrook was member for Franklin 1922-28. 5. The combined Nationalist vote was 44.9%, a decrease of 0.2% from the 45.1% polled by one Nationalist candidate Seabrook) at the 1929 general election. -------------------------------------------------------------------- 2nd count: Foster's 820 votes distributed -------------------------------------------------------------------- Blacklow 402 49.0 5,405 25.0 Frost 213 26.0 9,828 45.5 Murdoch 132 16.1 1,608 07.4 Seabrook 73 08.9 4,748 22.0 -------------------------------------------------------------------- > 820 21,589 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 3rd count: Murdoch's 1,608 votes distributed -------------------------------------------------------------------- Blacklow 648 40.3 6,053 28.0 Frost 398 24.8 10,226 47.4 Seabrook 562 35.0 5,310 24.6 -------------------------------------------------------------------- > 1,608 21,589 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 4th count: Seabrook's 5,310 votes distributed -------------------------------------------------------------------- Blacklow 4,332 81.6 10,385 48.1 FROST 978 18.4 11,204 51.9 -------------------------------------------------------------------- > 5,310 21,589 01.9 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Charles William Frost (1881-1964): Elected 1929 By Born: 1881, Tasmania. Career: Primary education. Orchardist, Margate, Tasmania. Kingsborough Council. --------------------------------------------------------------------