COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA LEGISLATIVE ELECTION OF 19 DECEMBER 1931 ==================================================================== HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ==================================================================== VOTING BY DIVISION ==================================================================== SOUTH AUSTRALIA ==================================================================== United Australia Party candidates in South Australia run under the name Emergency Committee (EC). ADELAIDE, SA ==================================================================== Inner Adelaide: East Adelaide, North Adelaide, Prospect, St Peters -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1929 two-party majority: ALP over Nationalist 11.4 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 44,008 +01.1 Votes cast: 41,634 94.6 +00.1 Informal votes: 3,872 09.3 +04.9 Formal votes: 37,762 90.7 -04.9 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- Agnes Goode 2,449 06.5 Thomas Howard 3,058 08.1 Fred Stacey EC 15,907 42.1 +03.5 Hon Crawford Vaughan 4,500 11.9 Edwin Yates * ALP 11,193 29.6 -31.8 John Zwolsman CPA 655 01.7 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 37,762 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Howard was SA MHA for Adelaide 1933-38. He was a Lang Labor candidate. The Lang supporters in South Australia were a splinter group from the ALP and are not classed with the ALP (NSW). 2. Vaughan was SA MHA for Torrens 1905-15, Sturt 1915-18. He was Premier of South Australia 1915-17. -------------------------------------------------------------------- 2nd count: Zwolsman's 655 votes distributed -------------------------------------------------------------------- Goode 112 17.1 2,561 06.8 Howard 181 27.6 3,239 08.6 Stacey 19 02.9 15,926 42.2 Vaughan 27 04.1 4,527 12.0 Yates * 316 48.2 11,509 30.5 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 655 37,762 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 3rd count: Goode's 2,561 votes distributed -------------------------------------------------------------------- Howard 829 32.4 4,068 10.8 Stacey 946 36.9 16,872 44.7 Vaughan 496 19.4 5,023 13.3 Yates * 290 11.3 11,799 31.2 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 2,561 37,762 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 4th count: Howard's 4,068 votes distributed -------------------------------------------------------------------- Stacey 1,056 26.0 17,928 47.5 Vaughan 181 04.4 5,204 13.8 Yates * 2,831 69.6 14,630 38.7 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 4,068 37,762 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 5th count: Vaughan's 5,204 votes distributed -------------------------------------------------------------------- STACEY 4,595 88.3 22,523 59.6 Yates * 609 11.7 15,239 40.4 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 5,204 37,762 09.6 21.0 to UAP -------------------------------------------------------------------- > George Edwin Yates (1871-1959): Elected 1914 By, 1914, 1917. Defeated 1919. Elected 1922, 1925, 1928, 1929. Defeated 1931 Later career: Secretary, South Australian ALP. Died 16 July 1959 > Fred Hurtle Stacey (1879-1964): Elected 1931 Born: 6 August 1879, Uraidla, South Australia. Career: Educated state schools. Farmworker. To Western Australian goldfields. In timber business, South Australia, 1907. St Peter's Council. -------------------------------------------------------------------- ANGAS, SA ==================================================================== East of Adelaide: Angaston, Gawler, Magill, Mitcham -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1929 two-party majority: ALP over Nationalist 04.7 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 52,698 +04.1 Votes cast: 50,952 96.7 +00.4 Informal votes: 1,843 03.6 -00.1 Formal votes: 49,109 96.4 +00.1 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- Moses GABB * EC 37,719 76.8 +31.5 David Fraser + ALP 11,390 23.2 -31.5 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 49,109 26.8 31.5 to UAP -------------------------------------------------------------------- Joes Moses Gabb (1882-1951): Elected 1919, 1922. Defeated 1925. Elected 1929, 1931 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Gabb was elected as an EC candidate, but sat as an independent. 2. Angas was abolished at the 1934 redistribution. Gabb retired at the 1934 election. Died 6 March 1951 -------------------------------------------------------------------- BARKER, SA ==================================================================== South-east South Australia: Glenelg, Mt Barker, Mt Gambier, Plympton -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1929 two-party majority: Nationalist over ALP 01.2 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 52,506 +05.2 Votes cast: 50,557 96.3 -00.7 Informal votes: 2,765 05.5 +00.4 Formal votes: 47,792 94.5 -00.4 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- Malcolm CAMERON * EC 30,597 64.0 +12.8 Cyril Hasse ALP 10,904 22.8 -26.0 Percy Spehr 6,291 13.2 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 47,792 20.7 e 19.5 to UAP -------------------------------------------------------------------- Malcolm Duncan Cameron (1873-1935): Elected 1922, 1925, 1928, 1929, 1931 Cameron retired at the 1934 election. Died 1 March 1935 -------------------------------------------------------------------- BOOTHBY, SA ==================================================================== Suburban Adelaide: Burnside, Goodwood, Norwood, Unley -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1929 two-party majority: ALP over Nationalist 05.6 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 48,892 -00.8 Votes cast: 46,964 96.1 +02.3 Informal votes: 2,530 05.4 +02.1 Formal votes: 44,434 94.6 -02.1 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- Samuel Lindsay 3,978 09.0 John PRICE * EC 30,440 68.5 +24.1 Cecil Skitch ALP 10,016 22.5 -33.1 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 44,434 24.0 e 29.6 to UAP -------------------------------------------------------------------- John Lloyd Price (1882-1941): Elected 1928, 1929, 1931 -------------------------------------------------------------------- GREY, SA ==================================================================== Outback South Australia: Peterborough, Port Lincoln, Port Pirie, Streaky Bay -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1929 two-party majority: ALP over Country Party 09.6 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 38,142 +01.6 Votes cast: 35,834 93.9 +01.2 Informal votes: 1,805 05.0 +00.7 Formal votes: 34,029 95.0 -00.7 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- Alfred Barns 1,292 03.8 James Hodgson 3,674 10.8 Andrew Lacey * ALP 12,691 37.3 -22.3 Philip McBride EC 16,372 48.1 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 34,029 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 2nd count: Barns's 1,292 votes distributed -------------------------------------------------------------------- Hodgson 775 60.0 4,449 13.1 Lacey * 147 11.4 12,838 37.7 McBride 370 28.6 16,742 49.2 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 1,292 34,029 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 3rd count: Hodgson's 4,449 votes distributed -------------------------------------------------------------------- Lacey * 1,631 36.7 14,469 42.5 McBRIDE 2,818 63.3 19,560 57.5 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 4,449 34,029 07.5 17.1 to UAP -------------------------------------------------------------------- The EC majority over the ALP is compared with the ALP majority over the Country Party in 1929. -------------------------------------------------------------------- > Andrew William Lacey (1887-1946): Elected 1922, 1925, 1928, 1929. Defeated 1931 Later career: SA MHA for Port Pirie 1933-46. Leader of the Opposition 1933-38. Died 24 August 1946 > Philip Albert Martin McBride (1892-1982): Elected 1931 Born: 18 June 1892, Kooringa, South Australia. Career: Educated Prince Alfred College, Adelaide. Grazier. -------------------------------------------------------------------- HINDMARSH, SA ==================================================================== Suburban Adelaide: Hindmarsh, Port Adelaide, Semaphore, Thebarton -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1929 majority: none (ALP unopposed) -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 55,669 +01.6 Votes cast: 53,529 96.2 Informal votes: 2,301 04.3 Formal votes: 51,228 95.7 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- Ernest Evans EC 20,657 40.3 Hon Norman MAKIN * ALP 28,047 54.7 Sidney O'Flaherty 2,524 04.9 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 51,228 08.4 e -------------------------------------------------------------------- For O'Flaherty, see Senate 1943. O'Flaherty was a Lang Labor candidate. The Lang supporters in South Australia were a splinter group from the ALP and are not classed with the ALP (NSW). -------------------------------------------------------------------- Norman John Oswald Makin (1889-1982): Elected 1919, 1922, 1925, 1928, 1929, 1931 Speaker of the House of Representatives to 16 February 1932 -------------------------------------------------------------------- WAKEFIELD, SA ==================================================================== North-central South Australia: Balaklava, Kapunda, Renmark, Wallaroo -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1929 two-party majority: Nationalist over ALP 06.9 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 37,444 +01.0 Votes cast: 36,300 96.9 +00.9 Informal votes: 1,674 04.6 +01.1 Formal votes: 34,626 95.4 -01.1 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- Maurice Collins 12,030 34.7 Charles HAWKER * EC 22,596 65.3 +29.2 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 34,626 15.3 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Collins was member for Wakefield 1928-29. He was an independent Country candidate. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Charles Allan Seymour Hawker (1894-1938): Elected 1929, 1931 Minister for Markets 6 January 1932 to 13 April 1932 Minister for Repatriation 6 January 1932 to 12 April 1932 Minister for Commerce 13 April 1932 to 23 September 1932 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Hawker had given a commitment during the election that he would vote for a reduction in parliamentary salaries. When Moses Gabb (Independent, Angas) moved a motion to reduce salaries (which the government opposed), Hawker resigned from the ministry so that he could vote for it. --------------------------------------------------------------------