COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA LEGISLATIVE ELECTION OF 21 AUGUST 1943 ==================================================================== Source: Australian Government publications HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ==================================================================== VOTING BY DIVISION ==================================================================== SOUTH AUSTRALIA ==================================================================== ADELAIDE, SA ==================================================================== Inner Adelaide: East Adelaide, Norwood, Prospect, St Peters -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1940 two-party majority: UAP over ALP 04.7 e -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 72,652 +11.5 Votes cast: 69,605 95.8 +00.8 Informal votes: 2,714 03.9 -01.1 Formal votes: 66,891 96.1 +01.1 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- Cyril CHAMBERS ALP 40,110 60.0 +26.1 Fred Stacey * UAP 22,636 33.8 -16.2 Alfred Watts CPA 2,854 04.3 Edwin Yates 1,291 01.9 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 66,891 15.6 e 20.3 to ALP -------------------------------------------------------------------- Yates was member for Adelaide 1912-19 and 1922-31. He was an independent Labor candidate. -------------------------------------------------------------------- > Fred Hurtle Stacey (1879-1964): Elected 1931, 1934, 1937, 1940. Defeated 1943 Died 17 September 1964 > Cyril Chambers (1897-1975): Elected 1943 Born: 28 February 1897, Adelaide. Career: Educated St Johns Baptist School, Hayward Academy, Adelaide. Dental surgeon 1921. Henley and Grange Council. Military Service 1940-43. -------------------------------------------------------------------- BARKER, SA ==================================================================== South-east South Australia: Glenelg, Mt Barker, Mt Gambier, Murray Bridge -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1940 two-party majority: Country Party over ALP 15.9 e -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 63,984 +00.8 Votes cast: 62,402 97.5 +01.5 Informal votes: 1,816 02.9 -00.2 Formal votes: 60,586 97.1 +00.2 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- Hon Archie Cameron * UAP 24,616 40.6 -18.0 John Gartner 1,222 02.0 Frank Halleday 10,508 17.3 Harry Krantz ALP 24,240 40.0 +13.3 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 60,586 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Cameron's vote is compared to the vote he polled as a Country Party candidate in 1930. 2. Halleday was independent SA MLC for Southern division 1938-43. He advocated a National Government (Border Chronicle, 11 June 1943). -------------------------------------------------------------------- 2nd count: Gartner's 1,222 votes distributed -------------------------------------------------------------------- Cameron * 513 42.0 25,129 41.5 Halleday 539 44.1 11,047 18.2 Krantz 170 13.9 24,410 40.3 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 1,222 60,586 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 3rd count: Halleday's 11,047 votes distributed -------------------------------------------------------------------- CAMERON * 6,165 55.8 31,294 51.7 Krantz 4,882 44.2 29,292 48.3 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 11,047 60,586 01.7 14.2 to ALP -------------------------------------------------------------------- Archie Galbraith Cameron (1895-1956): Elected 1934, 1937, 1940, 1943 Military Service 1940-44. -------------------------------------------------------------------- BOOTHBY, SA ==================================================================== Suburban Adelaide: Burnside, Edwardstown, Mitcham, Unley -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1940 two-party majority: UAP over ALP 15.2 e 1941 by-election two-party majority: UAP over ALP 06.6 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 77,711 +10.0 Votes cast: 75,679 97.4 +02.4 Informal votes: 2,597 03.4 00.0 Formal votes: 73,082 96.6 00.0 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- Alan Finger CPA 6,986 09.6 Dr Grenfell Price * UAP 32,869 45.0 -12.4 Thomas Sheehy ALP 30,896 42.3 +14.3 John Turner 2,331 03.2 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 73,082 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 2nd count: Turner's 2,331 votes distributed -------------------------------------------------------------------- Finger 365 15.7 7,351 10.1 Price * 961 41.2 33,830 46.3 Sheehy 1,005 43.1 31,901 43.7 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 2,331 73,082 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 3rd count: Finger's 7,351 votes distributed -------------------------------------------------------------------- Price * 2,062 28.1 35,892 49.1 SHEEHY 5,289 71.9 37,190 50.9 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 7,351 73,082 00.9 16.1 to ALP -------------------------------------------------------------------- > Archibald Grenfell Price (1892-1977): Elected 1941 By. Defeated 1943 Later career: Master, St Marks College, University of Adelaide. Chairman, National Library 1960-71. Knighted 1963. Died 20 July 1977 > Thomas Neil Sheehy (1899-1984): Elected 1943 Born: 19 May 1899, Adelaide. Career: Educated Adelaide School of Mines. Military Service 1917-18. Building contractor. -------------------------------------------------------------------- GREY, SA ==================================================================== Outback South Australia: Port Lincoln, Port Pirie, Wallaroo, Whyalla -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1940 two-party majority: Country Party over ALP 7.7 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 52,071 +00.1 Votes cast: 50,261 96.5 -00.1 Informal votes: 1,241 02.5 -00.6 Formal votes: 49,020 97.5 +00.6 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- Albert Badman * UAP 23,285 47.5 -05.3 Edgar RUSSELL ALP 25,735 52.5 +15.1 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 49,020 02.5 10.2 to ALP -------------------------------------------------------------------- Badman had been elected as a Country Party member in 1940. The Country Party in South Australia having ceased to exist, he stood as a UAP candidate. His vote is compared with the vote he polled as a Country Party candidate in 1940. The ALP majority over the UAP is compared with the ALP majority over the Country Party in 1940. -------------------------------------------------------------------- > Albert Oliver Badman (1885-1977): Elected 1937, 1940. Defeated 1943 Later career: Farmer. President, Primary Producers Union of South Australia 1954-61. Died 24 April 1977 > Edgar Hugo Degenaart Russell (1890-1963): Elected 1943 Born: 24 October 1890, Booleroo Centre, South Australia. Career: Educated public schools. Bank clerk, manager. Private accountant. -------------------------------------------------------------------- HINDMARSH, SA ==================================================================== Suburban Adelaide: Hindmarsh, Port Adelaide, Semaphore, Thebarton -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1940 two-party majority: ALP over UAP 15.7 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 77,146 +11.8 Votes cast: 75,213 97.5 +01.9 Informal votes: 1,824 02.4 -01.4 Formal votes: 73,389 97.6 +01.4 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- James Butler UAP 17,030 23.2 -11.1 Hon Norman MAKIN * ALP 56,359 76.8 +11.1 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 73,389 26.8 11.1 to ALP -------------------------------------------------------------------- Norman John Oswald Makin (1889-1982): Elected 1919, 1922, 1925, 1928, 1929, 1931, 1934, 1937, 1940, 1943 Minister for the Navy to 15 August 1946 Minister for Munitions to 15 August 1946 Minister for Aircraft Production 2 February 1945 to 15 August 1946 Resigned seat 15 August 1946 (no by-election held) Later career: Ambassador to the United States 1946-51, President United Nations Security Council. See Sturt 1954. -------------------------------------------------------------------- WAKEFIELD, SA ==================================================================== North-east South Australia: Angaston, Gawler, Kapunda, Renmark -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1940 two-party majority: UAP over ALP 03.4 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 54,903 +00.2 Votes cast: 53,000 96.5 +00.2 Informal votes: 1,327 02.5 -00.4 Formal votes: 51,673 97.5 +00.4 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- John Duncan-Hughes * UAP 25,229 48.8 -04.6 Albert SMITH ALP 26,444 51.2 +04.6 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 51,673 01.2 04.6 to ALP -------------------------------------------------------------------- > John Grant Duncan-Hughes (1882-1962): Elected 1922, 1925. Defeated 1928. Elected 1940. Defeated 1943 Later career: Lawyer. Died 13 August 1962 > Albert Edward Smith (1881-1965): Elected 1943 Born: 2 January 1881, Kent, England. Career: Migrated as child. Educated Clare, South Australia. Service station proprietor, Clare, South Australia. Clare Council. --------------------------------------------------------------------