COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA LEGISLATIVE ELECTION OF 21 AUGUST 1943 ==================================================================== Source: Australian Government publications THE SENATE ==================================================================== QUEENSLAND (Three senators to be elected) ==================================================================== Enrolled voters: 632,240 +04.9 Votes cast: 598,254 94.6 -00.7 Informal votes: 43,489 07.3 -02.0 Formal votes: 554,765 92.7 +02.0 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Gordon BROWN * ALP 299,815 54.0 ELECTED 1 Hon Joseph Collings * ALP 15,202 02.7 Group A Benjamin Courtice * ALP 7,891 01.4 James Annand CP 32,790 05.9 Group B Robert McGeoch CP 2,364 00.4 Charles Ware CP 2,196 00.4 Charles Brown UAP 173,209 31.2 Group C Paul Goldenstedt UAP 4,508 00.8 James McDonald UAP 6,464 01.2 James Kidman 3,914 00.7 Walter Hughes 6,412 01.2 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 554,765 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Charles Brown was Qld MLA for Gregory 1939-41. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 1st vacancy: Brown elected with an absolute majority of first preference votes --------------------------------------------------------------------- 2nd vacancy: Brown's 299,815 second preferences distributed --------------------------------------------------------------------- G BROWN * E ELECTED 1 COLLINGS * 289,863 96.7 305,065 55.0 ELECTED 2 Courtice * 4,221 01.4 12,112 02.2 Annand 2,147 00.7 34,937 06.3 McGeoch 571 00.2 2,935 00.5 Ware 238 00.1 2,434 00.4 C Brown 727 00.2 173,936 31.4 Goldenstedt 1,329 00.4 5,837 01.1 McDonald 331 00.1 6,795 01.2 Kidman 152 00.1 4,066 00.7 Hughes 236 00.1 6,648 01.2 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 299,815 554,765 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 3rd vacancy: G Brown's 299,815 second preferences distributed --------------------------------------------------------------------- G BROWN * E ELECTED 1 COLLINGS * E 15,202 02.7 ELECTED 2 COURTICE * 292,803 97.7 300,694 54.2 ELECTED 3 Annand 2,753 00.9 35,543 06.4 McGeoch 688 00.2 3,052 00.6 Ware 326 00.1 2,522 00.5 C Brown 899 00.3 174,108 31.4 Goldenstedt 1,400 00.5 5,908 01.1 McDonald 441 00.1 6,905 01.2 Kidman 210 00.1 4,124 00.7 Hughes 295 00.1 6,707 01.2 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 299,815 554,765 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Senators' terms began 1 July 1944. Brown, Collings and Courtice elected for a term ending 30 June 1950. Continuing senators (term to end 30 June 1947): Walter COOPER (CP), Hon Thomas CRAWFORD (UAP), Hon Harry FOLL (UAP). --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Gordon Brown (1885-1967): Elected 1931, 1937, 1943 President of the Senate from 23 September 1943 > Joseph Silver Collings (1865-1955): Elected 1931, 1937, 1943 Minister for the Interior to 13 July 1945 Vice-President of the Executive Council from 13 July 1945 > Walter Jackson Cooper (1891-1973): Elected 1928. Defeated 1931. Elected 1934, 1940 > Benjamin Courtice (1886-1972): Appointed 1937. Elected 1937, 1943 > Thomas William Crawford (1865-1948): Elected 1917, 1922, 1928, 1934, 1940 Crawford retired at the 1946 election. Died 8 June 1948 > Hattil Spencer Foll (1890-1977): Elected 1917, 1922, 1928, 1934, 1940 Foll retired at the 1946 election.. Later career: Grazier and company director, New England, NSW. Died 7 July 1977 ---------------------------------------------------------------------