COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA FIFTEENTH PARLIAMENT ==================================================================== BY-ELECTIONS ==================================================================== WAKEFIELD, SA ==================================================================== North-east South Australia: Angaston, Gawler, Kapunda, Renmark -------------------------------------------------------------------- 10 December 1938, following the death of Hon Charles Hawker -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1937 two-party majority: UAP over ALP 13.4 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 54,388 -00.3 Votes cast: 50,918 93.6 -02.9 Informal votes: 1,114 02.2 -01.7 Formal votes: 49,804 97.8 +01.7 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Butler + UAP 19,591 39.3 -24.1 Sydney McHugh ALP 18,870 37.9 +01.3 Percival Quirke 11,343 22.8 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 49,804 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Butler was SA MHA for Wooroora 1915-18, 1921-38, Light 1938. He was Premier of South Australia 1927-30, 1933-38. He was the grandfather of Hon Mark Butler MP. 2. Quirke was SA MHA Stanley 1941-56, Burra 1956-68. He ran as a "returned soldier primary producer" candidate (The News, 12 October 1938). -------------------------------------------------------------------- 2nd count: Quirke's 11,343 votes distributed -------------------------------------------------------------------- Butler + 1,958 17.3 21,549 43.3 McHUGH 9,385 82.7 28,255 56.7 -------------------------------------------------------------------- > 11,343 49,804 06.7 20.1 to ALP -------------------------------------------------------------------- Sydney McHugh (1892-1952): Elected 1938 By Born: 21 March 1892, Quorn, South Australia. Career: Educated state schools. Farmer and grazier. Military Service 1914-18. State politics: SA MHA for Burra Burra 1924-27, 1930-33 --------------------------------------------------------------------