COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA FOURTEENTH PARLIAMENT ==================================================================== BY-ELECTIONS ==================================================================== FAWKNER, Vic ==================================================================== Suburban Melbourne: Armadale, Malvern, Prahran, South Yarra -------------------------------------------------------------------- 17 August 1935, following the death of George Maxwell -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1934 two-party majority: UAP over ALP 19.4 e -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 48,030 -03.6 Votes cast: 41,973 87.4 -06.3 Informal votes: 946 02.3 -01.1 Formal votes: 41,027 97.7 +01.1 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- Donald Cameron ALP 16,433 40.1 +12.4 Harold HOLT + UAP 24,594 59.9 -06.6 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 41,027 09.9 09.5 to ALP -------------------------------------------------------------------- For Cameron, see Senate Victoria 1937. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Harold Edward Holt (1908-67): Elected 1935 By Born: 5 August 1908, Sydney. Career: Educated Wesley College, Melbourne, University of Melbourne. Solicitor from 1933. --------------------------------------------------------------------