COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA LEGISLATIVE ELECTION OF 21 AUGUST 1943 ==================================================================== Source: Australian Government publications HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ==================================================================== VOTING BY DIVISION ==================================================================== NORTHERN TERRITORY ==================================================================== 1940 majority: Independent over Independent 11.8 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 4,190 -27.0 Votes cast: 2,478 59.1 -15.2 Informal votes: 58 02.3 +00.2 Formal votes: 2,420 97.7 -00.2 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- Sydney Barker 99 04.1 Adair Blain * 859 35.5 Hector Fuller 99 04.1 Alexander Grant 43 01.8 William Murray ALP 682 28.2 John Nelson 602 24.9 Harry Russell 36 01.5 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 2,420 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. The white population of the Territory had fallen sharply following the Japanese bombing of Darwin in 1942. 2. For Nelson, see Northern Territory 1949. 3. Blain's vote of 35.5% was a decrease of 3.4% from the 38.9% he polled in 1940. He was a prisoner-of-war at the time of the elections. He had taken the precaution of filling in a nomination form before he left Australia. -------------------------------------------------------------------- 2nd count: Russell's 36 votes distributed -------------------------------------------------------------------- Barker 2 05.6 101 04.2 Blain * 12 33.3 871 36.0 Fuller 1 02.8 100 04.1 Grant 1 02.8 44 01.8 Murray 11 30.6 693 28.6 Nelson 9 25.0 611 25.2 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 36 2,420 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 3rd count: Grant's 44 votes distributed -------------------------------------------------------------------- Barker 5 11.4 106 04.4 Blain * 14 31.8 885 36.6 Fuller 11 25.0 111 04.6 Murray 11 25.0 704 29.1 Nelson 3 06.8 614 25.4 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 44 2,420 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 4th count: Barker's 106 votes distributed -------------------------------------------------------------------- Blain * 48 45.3 933 38.6 Fuller 22 20.8 133 05.5 Murray 20 (18.9 724 29.9 Nelson 16 15.1 630 26.0 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 106 2,420 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 5th count: Fuller's 133 votes distributed -------------------------------------------------------------------- Blain * 57 42.9 990 40.9 Murray 35 26.3 759 31.4 Nelson 41 30.8 671 27.7 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 133 2,420 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 6th count: Nelson's 671 votes distributed -------------------------------------------------------------------- BLAIN * 284 42.3 1,274 52.6 Murray 387 57.7 1,146 47.4 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 671 2,420 02.6 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Adair MacAlister Blain (1894-1983): Elected 1934, 1937, 1940, 1943 Military Service 1940-45. -------------------------------------------------------------------- The member for the Northern Territory could vote only on matters affecting the Territory. --------------------------------------------------------------------