COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA LEGISLATIVE ELECTION OF 19 DECEMBER 1931 ==================================================================== HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ==================================================================== VOTING BY DIVISION ==================================================================== TASMANIA ==================================================================== BASS, Tas ==================================================================== Northern Tasmania: Launceston, Ringarooma, Scottsdale, St Leonards -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1929 two-party majority: ALP over Nationalist 10.4 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 24,142 +02.9 Votes cast: 23,285 96.5 +01.1 Informal votes: 1,197 05.1 +03.7 Formal votes: 22,088 94.9 -03.7 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- Claude Barnard + ALP 6,763 30.6 -29.8 Allan Guy * UAP 10,293 46.6 +07.0 Harold Solomon 5,032 22.8 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 22,088 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. For Barnard, see Bass 1934. 2. Solomon was an independent Nationalist candidate. -------------------------------------------------------------------- 2nd count: Solomon's 5,032 votes distributed -------------------------------------------------------------------- Barnard 1,078 21.4 7,841 35.5 GUY * 3,954 78.6 14,247 64.5 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 5,032 22,088 14.5 24.9 to UAP -------------------------------------------------------------------- James Allan Guy (1890-1979): Elected 1929, 1931 Assistant Minister for Trade and Customs from 13 October 1932 -------------------------------------------------------------------- DARWIN, Tas ==================================================================== Northern Tasmania: Circular Head, Devonport, Emu Bay, Leven -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1929 two-party majority: Nationalist over ALP 05.9 e -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 24,922 +04.0 Votes cast: 23,998 96.3 +01.2 Informal votes: 887 03.7 +01.8 Formal votes: 23,111 96.3 -01.8 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- George BELL * UAP 16,149 69.9 +16.3 Joseph McGrath ALP 6,962 30.1 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 23,111 19.9 14.0 to UAP -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. McGrath was Tas MHA for Darwin 1934-37. 2. The ALP vote of 30.1% was a decrease of 16.3% from the 46.4% polled by two ALP candidates in 1929. -------------------------------------------------------------------- George John Bell (1872-1944): Elected 1919. Defeated 1922. Elected 1925, 1928, 1929, 1931 -------------------------------------------------------------------- DENISON, Tas ==================================================================== Hobart area: Hobart, Hobart North, New Town, Queenborough -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1929 two-party majority: ALP over Nationalist 09.2 e -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 23,900 +02.9 Votes cast: 23,112 96.7 +00.8 Informal votes: 1,166 05.0 +02.2 Formal votes: 21,946 95.0 -02.2 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- Hon Charles Culley * ALP 9,868 45.0 -12.5 Arthur HUTCHIN UAP 12,078 55.0 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 21,946 05.0 14.2 to UAP -------------------------------------------------------------------- The UAP vote of 55.0% was an increase of 13.3% from the 41.7% polled by four Nationalist candidates in 1929. -------------------------------------------------------------------- > Charles Ernest Culley (1877-1949): Elected 1928, 1929. Defeated 1931 Later career: Tas MHA for Denison 1934-49. President Tasmanian ALP 1944-47. Died 10 June 1949 > Arthur William Hutchin (1887-1965): Elected 1931 Born: 3 March 1887, Bathurst, NSW. Career: Educated NSW. Military Service 1910-20. Company manager. -------------------------------------------------------------------- FRANKLIN, Tas ==================================================================== Southern Tasmania: Kingborough, Moonah, Nelson, New Norfolk -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1929 majority: Independent over Nationalist 04.9 1929 by-election two-party majority: ALP over Nationalist 01.9 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 24,963 +03.8 Votes cast: 24,066 96.4 +01.1 Informal votes: 1,195 05.0 +03.5 Formal votes: 22,871 95.0 -03.5 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- Albert Beard 2,778 12.1 Archibald BLACKLOW UAP 12,819 56.0 +10.9 Charles Frost * ALP 7,274 31.8 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 22,871 13.0 e -------------------------------------------------------------------- > Charles William Frost (1881-1964): Elected 1929 By. Defeated 1931 Later career: See Franklin 1934. > Archibald Clifford Blacklow (1879-1965): Elected 1931 Born: 11 October 1879, Bagdad, Tasmania. Career: Educated Hutchins School, Hobart, and University of Sydney. Pharmacist, Sydney. Military Service 1916-19. To Tasmania 1925, dairyfarmer and pastoralist. -------------------------------------------------------------------- WILMOT, Tas ==================================================================== Central Tasmania: Deloraine, Evandale, Latrobe, Longford -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1929 two-party majority: ALP over Nationalist 02.9 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 22,938 +05.4 Votes cast: 22,010 96.0 +01.5 Informal votes: 1,026 04.7 +03.1 Formal votes: 20,984 95.3 -03.1 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- George Becker + ALP 5,586 26.6 -26.3 Hon Joseph LYONS * UAP 12,622 60.2 +13.1 George Pullen 2,776 13.2 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 20,984 22.1 e 25.0 to UAP -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Becker was Tas MHA for Bass 1912-31, Wilmot 1934-41. 2. Pullen was an independent Nationalist candidate. His candidacy reflected local conservative opposition to Lyons, who had refused to give a written statement repudiating all ALP policies. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Joseph Aloysius Lyons (1879-1939): Elected 1929, 1931 Prime Minister from 6 January 1932 Treasurer from 6 January 1932 Minister for Commerce 3 October 1932 to 13 October 1932 Leader of the Opposition to 6 January 1932 Leader of the United Australia Party --------------------------------------------------------------------