COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA LEGISLATIVE ELECTION OF 28 SEPTEMBER 1946 ==================================================================== Source: Australian Government publications HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ==================================================================== VOTING BY DIVISION ==================================================================== TASMANIA ==================================================================== BASS, Tas ==================================================================== Northern Tasmania: Launceston, Ringarooma, Scottsdale, St Leonards -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1940 two-party majority: ALP over UAP 07.3 e -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 29,350 +08.3 Votes cast: 27,552 93.9 +04.5 Informal votes: 557 02.0 -01.9 Formal votes: 26,995 98.0 +01.9 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- Claude Barnard * ALP 13,495 50.0 -01.2 Henry Spotswood Lib 8,219 30.4 +12.8 John Orchard 5,281 19.6 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 26,995 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 2nd count: Orchard's 5,281 votes distributed -------------------------------------------------------------------- BARNARD * 1,892 35.8 15,387 57.0 Spotswood 3,389 64.2 11,608 43.0 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 5,281 26,995 07.0 00.3 to Lib -------------------------------------------------------------------- Orchard was Tas MHA for Bass 1948-54, Tas LC for Cornwall 1954-61, Launceston 1966-68. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Herbert Claude Barnard (1890-1957): Elected 1934, 1937, 1940, 1943, 1946 Minister for Repatriation from 1 November 1946 -------------------------------------------------------------------- DARWIN, Tas ==================================================================== Northern Tasmania: Circular Head, Devonport, Emu Bay, Leven -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1943 two-party majority: UAP over ALP 01.5 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 32,436 +08.7 Votes cast: 29,957 92.4 -03.6 Informal votes: 730 02.4 -02.3 Formal votes: 29,227 97.6 +02.3 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- Harold Kirkpatrick ALP 13,392 45.8 Dame Enid LYONS * Lib 15,835 54.2 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 29,227 04.2 02.7 to Lib -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. The ALP vote of 45.8% was an increase of 3.2% from the 42.6% polled by two ALP candidates in 1943. 2. The Liberal vote of 54.2% was an increase of 5.3% from the 48.9% polled by three UAP candidates in 1943. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enid Muriel Lyons (1897-1981): Elected 1943, 1946 -------------------------------------------------------------------- DENISON, Tas ==================================================================== Hobart area: Hobart, Hobart North, New Town, Queenborough -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1943 two-party majority: ALP over UAP 09.0 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 31,398 +06.6 Votes cast: 29,332 93.4 -05.0 Informal votes: 874 03.0 -00.8 Formal votes: 28,458 97.0 +00.8 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr John GAHA * ALP 16,231 57.0 +09.7 John Hamilton Lib 12,227 43.0 +04.3 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 28,458 07.0 02.0 to Lib -------------------------------------------------------------------- John Francis Gaha (1894-1966): Elected 1943, 1946 Gaha retired at the 1949 election. Later career: Tas MHA for Denison 1950-64. Chief Secretary 1958-61, Minister for Police 1958-61, Minister for Transport 1958-61. Died 18 March 1966 -------------------------------------------------------------------- FRANKLIN, Tas ==================================================================== Southern Tasmania: Kingborough, Moonah, Nelson, New Norfolk -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1943 two-party majority: ALP over UAP 09.9 e -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 34,001 +09.0 Votes cast: 32,159 94.6 -01.6 Informal votes: 876 02.7 -00.1 Formal votes: 31,283 97.3 +00.1 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- Charles FALKINDER Lib 15,678 50.1 Hon Charles Frost * ALP 15,605 49.9 -09.0 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 31,283 00.1 10.0 to Lib -------------------------------------------------------------------- The Liberal vote of 50.1% was an increase of 9.0% from the 41.1% polled by two UAP candidates in 1943. -------------------------------------------------------------------- > Charles William Frost (1881-1964): Elected 1929 By. Defeated 1931. Elected 1934, 1937, 1940, 1943. Defeated 1946 Minister for Repatriation to 1 November 1946 Later career: Trade Commissioner to Ceylon 1947-48, High Commissioner to Ceylon 1948-50. Died 22 July 1964 > Charles William Jackson Falkinder (1921-93): Elected 1946 Born: 29 August 1921, Hobart. Career: Educated Hobart High School. Military Service 1940-45. -------------------------------------------------------------------- WILMOT, Tas ==================================================================== Central Tasmania: Deloraine, Evandale, Latrobe, Longford -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1943 two-party majority: UAP over ALP 01.7 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 27,368 +06.1 Votes cast: 25,880 94.6 -01.4 Informal votes: 671 02.6 00.0 Formal votes: 25,209 97.4 00.0 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- Gil DUTHIE ALP 13,032 51.7 +06.1 Hon Allan Guy * Lib 12,177 48.3 -00.9 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 25,209 01.7 03.4 to ALP -------------------------------------------------------------------- > James Allan Guy (1890-1979): Elected 1929, 1931. Defeated 1934. Elected 1940, 1943. Defeated 1946 Later career: See Senate 1949. > Gilbert William Arthur Duthie (1912-98): Elected 1946 Born: 21 May 1912, Nhill, Victoria. Career: Educated state schools and University of Melbourne. Schoolteacher and farmer, Victoria. Methodist minister 1938. At La Trobe, Tasmania, from 1944. --------------------------------------------------------------------