COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA SEVENTEENTH PARLIAMENT ==================================================================== BY-ELECTIONS ==================================================================== HENTY, Vic ==================================================================== Suburban Melbourne: Bentleigh, East Malvern, Oakleigh, Sandringham -------------------------------------------------------------------- 30 March 1946, following the resignation of Arthur Coles -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1943 majority: Indpendent over UAP 05.5 e -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 80,883 +03.2 Votes cast: 72,360 89.5 -08.0 Informal votes: 1,086 01.5 -01.9 Formal votes: 71,274 98.5 +01.9 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- Valentine Doube ALP 32,556 45.7 Jo GULLETT Lib 38,718 54.3 +16.2 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 71,274 04.3 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Doube was Vic MLA for Oakleigh 1950-61, Albert Park 1970-79. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Henry Baynton Somer Gullett 1914-99): Elected 1946 By Born: 16 December 1914, London, England. Career: Educated Geelong Grammar School, Oxford University, Sorbonne MA). Journalist. Military Service 1939-45. Farmer, Yea, Victoria. Son of Hon Sir Henry Gullett MP. --------------------------------------------------------------------