COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA SIXTEENTH PARLIAMENT ==================================================================== BY-ELECTIONS ==================================================================== SWAN, WA ==================================================================== Country Western Australia: Canning, Guildford, Northam, Swan -------------------------------------------------------------------- 21 December 1940, following the death of Henry Gregory -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1940 two-party majority: Country Party over ALP 07.5 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 53,685 +01.7 Votes cast: 45,392 84.6 -07.8 Informal votes: 701 01.5 -02.7 Formal votes: 44,691 98.5 +02.7 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- Claude Barker 4,980 11.1 James Dinan ALP 16,729 37.4 +09.2 Percy Ferguson + CP 10,628 23.8 Thomas Marwick + CP 12,354 27.6 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 44,691 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Barker was WA MLA for Irwin-Moore 1939. 2. Ferguson was WA MLA for Moore 1927-30, Irwin-Moore 1930-39. 3. The combined Country Party vote was 51.4%, a decrease of 1.6% from the 53.0% polled by two Country Party candidates at the 1940 election. -------------------------------------------------------------------- 2nd count: Barker's 4,980 votes distributed -------------------------------------------------------------------- Dinan 3,493 70.1 20,222 45.3 Ferguson + 755 15.2 11,383 25.5 Marwick + 732 14.7 13,086 29.3 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 4,980 44,691 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 3rd count: Ferguson's votes distributed -------------------------------------------------------------------- Dinan 932 08.2 21,154 47.3 MARWICK + 10,451 91.8 23,537 52.3 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 11,383 44,691 02.3 05.2 to ALP -------------------------------------------------------------------- Thomas William Marwick (1895-1960): Elected 1940 By Born: 29 April 1895, York, Western Australia Career: Educated Catholic schools and Perth Technical College. Engineer. Farmer at Brooktown and York, Western Australia. Senate: Senator for Western Australia 1936-37. --------------------------------------------------------------------