COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA LEGISLATIVE ELECTION OF 21 SEPTEMBER 1940 ==================================================================== HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ==================================================================== VOTING BY DIVISION ==================================================================== NORTHERN TERRITORY ==================================================================== 1937 majority: Independent over Independent 02.0 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 5,737 +80.1 Votes cast: 4,263 74.3 -05.8 Informal votes: 88 02.1 +00.9 Formal votes: 4,175 97.9 -00.9 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- Adair Blain * 1,622 38.9 Frederick Colson 841 20.1 Lindsay Craig 1,321 31.6 John McDonald 391 09.4 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 4,175 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Blain's vote of 38.9% was an increase of 0.7% from the 38.2% he polled in 1937. -------------------------------------------------------------------- 2nd count: McDonald's 391 votes distributed -------------------------------------------------------------------- Blain * 144 36.8 1,766 42.3 Colson 158 40.4 999 23.9 Craig 89 22.8 1,410 33.8 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 391 4,175 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 3rd count: Colson's 999 votes distributed -------------------------------------------------------------------- BLAIN * 813 81.4 2,579 61.8 Craig 186 (18.6 1,596 38.2 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 999 4,175 11.8 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Adair MacAlister Blain (1894-1983): Elected 1934, 1937, 1940 Military service from 1939. Blain was a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese from 1942. -------------------------------------------------------------------- The member for the Northern Territory could vote only on matters affecting the Territory. --------------------------------------------------------------------