COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA LEGISLATIVE ELECTION OF 19 DECEMBER 1931 ==================================================================== Parties -------------------------------------------------------------------- * ALP - Australian Labor Party * CP - Country Party * EC – Emergency Committee (the name used by the United Australia Party in South Australia) VOTING BY CONSTITUENCY ==================================================================== SOUTH AUSTRALIA ==================================================================== ADELAIDE, SA 44,008 enrolled, 41,634 (94.6%) voted ==================================================================== Inner Adelaide: East Adelaide, North Adelaide, Prospect, St Peters -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1929 two-party majority: ALP over Nationalist 11.4 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 3,872 (09.3%) informal 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 52,698 enrolled, 50,952 (96.7%) voted ==================================================================== East of Adelaide: Angaston, Gawler, Magill, Mitcham -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1929 two-party majority: ALP over Nationalist 04.7 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Moses GABB * EC 37,719 76.8 (+31.5) David Fraser ALP 11,390 23.2 (-31.5) -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1,843 (03.6%) informal 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 in 1934. Died 6 March 1951 -------------------------------------------------------------------- BARKER, SA 52,506 enrolled, 50,557 (96.3%) voted ==================================================================== South-east South Australia: Glenelg, Mt Barker, Mt Gambier, Plympton -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1929 two-party majority: Nationalist over ALP 01.2 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Malcolm CAMERON * EC 30,597 64.0 (+12.8) Cyril Hasse ALP 10,904 22.8 (-26.0) Percy Spehr 6,291 13.2 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 2,765 (05.5%) informal 47,792 20.7 e 19.5 to UAP -------------------------------------------------------------------- Malcolm Duncan Cameron (1873-1935): Elected 1922, 1925, 1928, 1929, 1931 Cameron retired in 1934. Died 1 March 1935 -------------------------------------------------------------------- BOOTHBY, SA 48,892 enrolled, 46,964 (96.1%) voted ==================================================================== Suburban Adelaide: Burnside, Goodwood, Norwood, Unley -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1929 two-party majority: ALP over Nationalist 05.6 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Samuel Lindsay 3,978 09.0 John PRICE * EC 30,440 68.5 (+24.1) Cecil Skitch ALP 10,016 22.5 (-33.1) -------------------------------------------------------------------- 2,530 (05.4%) informal 44,434 24.0 e 29.6 to UAP -------------------------------------------------------------------- John Lloyd Price (1882-1941): Elected 1928, 1929, 1931 -------------------------------------------------------------------- GREY, SA 38,142 enrolled, 35,834 (93.9%) voted ==================================================================== Outback South Australia: Peterborough, Port Lincoln, Port Pirie, Streaky Bay -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1929 two-party majority: ALP over Country Party 09.6 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1,805 (05.0%) informal 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 55,669 enrolled, 53,529 (96.2%) voted ==================================================================== Suburban Adelaide: Hindmarsh, Port Adelaide, Semaphore, Thebarton -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1929 majority: none (ALP unopposed) -------------------------------------------------------------------- Ernest Evans EC 20,657 40.3 Hon Norman MAKIN * ALP 28,047 54.7 Sidney O'Flaherty 2,524 04.9 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 2,301 (04.3%) informal 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 37,444 enrolled, 36,300 (96.9%) voted ==================================================================== North-central South Australia: Balaklava, Kapunda, Renmark, Wallaroo -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1929 two-party majority: Nationalist over ALP 06.9 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Maurice Collins 12,030 34.7 Charles HAWKER * EC 22,596 65.3 (+29.2) -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1,674 (04.6%) informal 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. --------------------------------------------------------------------