COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA LEGISLATIVE ELECTION OF 10 DECEMBER 1949 ==================================================================== Source: Australian Government publications HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ==================================================================== VOTING BY DIVISION ==================================================================== QUEENSLAND ==================================================================== BOWMAN, Qld ==================================================================== Inner Brisbane: Bulimba, Coorparoo -------------------------------------------------------------------- New seat: 1946 notional two-party majority: ALP over Liberal 02.7 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 40,357 Votes cast: 38,509 95.4 Informal votes: 877 02.3 Formal votes: 37,632 97.7 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- Wilfred Coutts + ALP 16,886 44.9 -07.8 Mabel Hanson CPA 656 01.7 Malcolm McCOLM Lib 20,090 53.4 +06.1 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 37,632 03.8 e 06.5 to Lib -------------------------------------------------------------------- For Coutts, see Griffith 1954. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Malcolm Llewellyn McColm (1914-66): Elected 1949 Born: 25 June 1914, Cardiff, Wales. Career: Migrated as child. Educated Scots College, Warwick, Queensland. Bushworker. Military Service 1936-46. Public servant. -------------------------------------------------------------------- BRISBANE, Qld ==================================================================== Inner Brisbane: Fortitude Valley, Kelvin Grove, Merthyr, Paddington -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1946 two-party majority: ALP over Liberal 07.0 e Effect of 1948 redistribution: 06.7 shift to ALP New notional majority: ALP over Liberal 13.7 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 39,680 -42.8 Votes cast: 37,134 93.6 +01.4 Informal votes: 1,021 02.7 -00.5 Formal votes: 36,113 97.3 +00.5 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- Albert Graham CPA 1,954 05.4 Hon George LAWSON * ALP 18,890 52.3 -07.4 James Long Lib 15,269 42.3 +06.0 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 36,113 07.3 e 06.4 to Lib -------------------------------------------------------------------- George Lawson (1881-1966): Elected 1931, 1934, 1937, 1940, 1943, 1946, 1949 -------------------------------------------------------------------- CAPRICORNIA, Qld ==================================================================== Queensland Coast: Fitzroy, Gladstone, Mt Morgan, Rockhampton -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1946 two-party majority: Liberal/Country Party over ALP 02.9 Effect of 1948 redistribution: 01.7 shift to Liberal New notional majority: Liberal over ALP 04.6 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 34,137 -45.7 Votes cast: 32,991 96.6 +02.5 Informal votes: 508 01.5 -00.3 Formal votes: 32,483 98.5 +00.3 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- Harold Gardner ALP 15,121 46.6 +02.1 George PEARCE + Lib 16,949 52.2 -00.1 Edward Robertson CPA 413 01.3 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 32,483 02.3 e 02.3 to ALP -------------------------------------------------------------------- Gardner was Qld MLA for Rockhampton 1956-60. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Henry George Pearce (born 1917): Elected 1949 Born: 17 September 1917, Rockhapmton, Queensland. Career: Educated state schools. Retail manager. Fulltime Secretary, Central Queensland Red Cross. -------------------------------------------------------------------- DARLING DOWNS, Qld ==================================================================== South-east Queensland: Crows Nest, Jandaryan, Pittsworth, Toowoomba -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1946 two-party majority: Country Party over ALP 11.9 e Effect of 1948 redistribution: 01.3 shift to ALP New notional majority: Country Party over ALP 10.6 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 37,757 -32.2 Votes cast: 36,711 97.2 +01.0 Informal votes: 587 01.6 -00.1 Formal votes: 36,124 98.4 +00.1 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- Charles Farquharson 3,041 08.4 James Kane ALP 11,281 31.2 -05.0 Charles Lacaze 260 00.7 Raymond Mullaly CPA 281 00.8 Reginald SWARTZ + Lib 21,261 58.9 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 36,124 12.5 e 01.9 to Lib -------------------------------------------------------------------- Kane was Qld MLA for East Toowoomba 1935-38. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Reginald William Colin Swartz (1911-2006): Elected 1949 Born: 14 April 1911, Brisbane. Career: Educated Toowoomba and Brisbane Grammar schools. Oil company executive. Military Service 1940-46. -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Although this was a Country Party seat on the 1946 figures, the Country Party agreed not to contest it against the Liberals in exchange for an uncontested return for the sitting member, Arthur Fadden, in the new seat of McPherson (Courier-Mail, 29 November 1949). 2. The Liberal majority over the ALP is compared with the Country Party majority over the ALP in 1946 -------------------------------------------------------------------- DAWSON, Qld ==================================================================== Queensland Coast: Mackay, Mirani, Proserpine, Rockhampton North -------------------------------------------------------------------- New seat: 1946 notional two-party majority: ALP over Liberal 01.2 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 36,070 Votes cast: 33,729 93.5 Informal votes: 659 02.0 Formal votes: 33,070 98.0 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Andrew CPA 1,379 04.2 -03.5 George Burns + ALP 12,389 37.5 -05.3 Charles DAVIDSON * CP 19,302 58.4 +12.3 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 33,070 08.6 e 09.8 to CP -------------------------------------------------------------------- Davidson was member for Capricornia 1946-49. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Charles William Davidson (1897-1985): Elected 1946, 1949 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Davidson had been elected as a joint Liberal-Country Party candidate in 1946, but had sat as a Liberal 1946-49. He was endorsed for Dawson as a Country Party candidate only and sat as a Country Party member from 1949. -------------------------------------------------------------------- FISHER, Qld ==================================================================== North of Brisbane: Gympie, Landsborough, Nanago, Widgee -------------------------------------------------------------------- New seat: 1946 notional two-party majority: Country Party over ALP 16.6 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 42,662 Votes cast: 40,482 94.9 Informal votes: 453 01.1 Formal votes: 40,029 98.9 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- Charles ADERMANN * CP 26,630 66.5 +05.3 Norman Logan 3,419 08.5 Edmund Roberts ALP 9,980 24.9 -02.2 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 40,029 20.7 e 04.1 to CP -------------------------------------------------------------------- Adermann was member for Maranoa 1943-49. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Charles Frederick Adermann (1896-1979): Elected 1943, 1946, 1949 -------------------------------------------------------------------- GRIFFITH, Qld ==================================================================== Inner Brisbane: Buranda, Kurilpa, Maree, South Brisbane -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1946 two-party majority: ALP over Liberal 03.9 e Effect of 1948 redistribution: 04.3 shift to Liberal New notional majority: Liberal over ALP 00.4 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 38,616 -47.5 Votes cast: 36,751 95.2 +00.4 Informal votes: 1,179 03.2 -00.4 Formal votes: 35,572 96.8 +00.4 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- Douglas BERRY + Lib 18,381 51.7 +01.3 William Conelan * ALP 16,464 46.3 -03.3 Anna Slater CPA 727 02.0 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 35,572 01.9 e 01.5 to Lib -------------------------------------------------------------------- Following the redistribution, the Liberals are shown as the defending party. -------------------------------------------------------------------- > William Patrick Conelan (1893-1983): Elected 1939 By, 1940, 1943, 1946. Defeated 1949 Died 28 February 1983 > Douglas Reginald Berry (1907-57): Elected 1949 Born: 3 May 1907, Esk, Queensland. Career: Educated state schools, Ipswich Technical College. Retail butcher, owner of chain of butcher shops. -------------------------------------------------------------------- HERBERT, Qld ==================================================================== North Queensland: Ayr, Ingham, Townsville, Tully -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1946 two-party majority: ALP over Country Party 10.3 Effect of 1948 redistribution: 03.8 shift to ALP New notional majority: ALP over Country Party 14.1 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 39,051 -45.1 Votes cast: 36,375 93.1 +02.6 Informal votes: 1,160 03.2 -01.5 Formal votes: 35,215 96.8 +01.5 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- William Edmonds * ALP 17,395 49.4 +01.0 James Henderson CPA 1,847 05.2 -10.6 Douglas Jeffrey CP 15,973 45.4 +13.0 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 35,215 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 2nd count: Henderson's 1,847 votes distributed -------------------------------------------------------------------- EDMONDS * 1,503 81.4 18,898 53.7 Jeffrey 344 18.6 16,317 46.3 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 1,847 35,215 03.7 10.4 to CP -------------------------------------------------------------------- William Frederick Edmonds (1903-68): Elected 1946, 1949 -------------------------------------------------------------------- KENNEDY, Qld ==================================================================== North-west Queensland: Bowen, Charters Towers, Cloncurry, Longreach -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1946 two-party majority: ALP over Country Party 07.5 Effect of 1948 redistribution: 04.6 shift to ALP New notional majority: ALP over Country Party 12.1 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 31,364 -41.8 Votes cast: 28,004 89.3 +05.3 Informal votes: 533 01.9 -00.6 Formal votes: 27,471 98.1 +00.6 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- Sylvester Browne CP 11,397 41.5 +04.6 Hon William RIORDAN * ALP 15,127 55.1 -03.2 Eric Wyper CPA 947 03.4 -00.4 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 27,471 08.4 e 03.7 to CP -------------------------------------------------------------------- William James Riordan (1908-73): Elected 1936 By, 1937, 1940, 1943, 1946, 1949 Minister for the Navy to 19 December 1949 -------------------------------------------------------------------- LEICHHARDT, Qld ==================================================================== North Queenaland: Atherton, Cairns, Gordonvale, Mareeba -------------------------------------------------------------------- New seat: 1946 notional two-party majority: ALP over Country Party 07.5 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 37,467 Votes cast: 34,283 91.5 Informal votes: 1,427 04.2 Formal votes: 32,856 95.8 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- Thomas Gilmore CP 16,291 49.6 +08.0 Cecil Holdcroft + ALP 13,894 42.3 -11.2 Leslie Keough 424 01.3 Ralph Leinster CPA 1,141 03.5 -00.7 Thomas Mackey 1,106 03.4 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 32,856 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 2nd count: Keough's 424 votes distributed -------------------------------------------------------------------- Gilmore 105 24.8 16,396 49.9 Holdcroft 189 44.6 14,083 42.9 Leinster 72 17.0 1,213 03.7 Mackey 58 13.7 1,164 03.5 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 424 32,856 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 3rd count: Mackey's 1,164 votes distributed -------------------------------------------------------------------- GILMORE 472 40.5 16,868 51.3 Holdcroft 388 33.3 14,471 44.0 Leinster 304 26.1 1,517 04.6 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 1,164 32,856 01.7 e 09.2 to CP -------------------------------------------------------------------- Thomas Vernon Gilmore (1908-94): Elected 1949 Born: 7 May 1908, Wolfram, Queensland. Career: Educated state schools. Sugar cane farmer and tobacco grower, Babinda, Queensland. Military Service 1942-47. -------------------------------------------------------------------- LILLEY, Qld ==================================================================== Suburban Brisbane: Nundah, Sandgate, Toombul -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1946 two-party majority: ALP over Liberal 00.7 Effect of 1948 redistribution: 00.9 shift to Liberal New notional majority: Liberal over ALP 00.2 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 41,012 -46.7 Votes cast: 38,583 94.1 -01.8 Informal votes: 727 01.9 -01.1 Formal votes: 37,856 98.1 +01.1 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- James Hadley * ALP 15,368 40.6 -04.2 Bruce WIGHT + Lib 22,488 59.4 +15.2 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 37,856 09.4 09.2 to Lib -------------------------------------------------------------------- Following the redistribution, the Liberals are shown as the defending party. -------------------------------------------------------------------- > James Hadley (1893-1971): Elected 1943, 1946. Defeated 1949 Later career: Qld MLA for Nundah 1956-57. Died 16 July 1971 > Bruce McDonald Wight (1914-69): Elected 1949 Born: 16 June 1914, Mudgee, NSW. Career: Educated Sydney High School. Business manager, Brisbane. Military Service 1939-46. -------------------------------------------------------------------- McPHERSON, Qld ==================================================================== South-east Queensland: Beaudesert, Southport, Stanthorpe, Warwick -------------------------------------------------------------------- New seat: 1946 notional two-party majority: Liberal over ALP 19.1 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 35,359 Votes cast: 33,220 94.0 Informal votes: 521 01.6 Formal votes: 32,699 98.4 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- Rt Hon Arthur FADDEN * CP 24,263 74.2 +46.6 John Hilton ALP 8,436 25.8 -05.1 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 32,699 24.2 05.1 to CP -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Fadden was member for Darling Downs 1936-49. 2. Although this was a Liberal seat on the 1946 figures, the Liberals agreed not to oppose Fadden in exchange for an unopposed run for the Liberal candidate in Darling Downs (Courier-Mail, 29 November 1949). 3. The Country Party majority over the ALP is compared with the notional Liberal majority over the ALP in 1946. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Arthur William Fadden (1895-1973): Elected 1936 By, 1937, 1940, 1943, 1946, 1949 Treasurer from 19 December 1949 Leader of the Country Party -------------------------------------------------------------------- MARANOA, Qld ==================================================================== South-western Queensland: Dalby, Goondiwindi, Miles, Roma -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1946 two-party majority: Country Party over ALP 11.6 e Effect of 1948 redistribution: 05.8 shift to ALP New notional majority: Country Party over ALP 05.8 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 33,744 -41.7 Votes cast: 31,644 93.8 +04.2 Informal votes: 335 01.1 -00.7 Formal votes: 31,309 98.9 +00.7 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- Martin Laracy ALP 12,657 40.4 -01.6 Charles RUSSELL + CP 18,652 59.6 +06.3 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 31,309 09.6 03.8 to CP -------------------------------------------------------------------- Charles Wilfred Russell (1907-77): Elected 1949 Born: 24 April 1907, Tamworth, NSW. Career: Educated Cranbrook School, Sydney. Grazier. Military Service 1941-44. State politics: Qld MLA for Dalby 1947-49. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Russell resigned from the parliamentary Country Party in October 1950 after advocating the appreciation of the pound, contrary to party policy (Queensland Country Life, 19 October 1950). He was expelled from the party in August 1951 when he nominated as an independent for the 1951 election (Charleville Times, 23 August 1951). -------------------------------------------------------------------- MORETON, Qld ==================================================================== Suburban Brisbane: Kingston, Mt Gravatt, Sherwood, Wynnum -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1946 two-party majority: Liberal over ALP 15.7 e Effect of 1948 redistribution: 04.9 shift to ALP New notional majority: Liberal over ALP 10.8 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 43,927 -43.6 Votes cast: 41,811 95.2 +01.0 Informal votes: 867 02.1 -00.2 Formal votes: 40,944 97.9 +00.2 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- Hon Josiah FRANCIS * Lib 25,125 61.4 +08.1 William Thieme ALP 14,915 36.4 -05.6 William Yarrow CPA 904 02.2 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 40,944 11.6 e 00.8 to Lib -------------------------------------------------------------------- Josiah Francis (1890-1964): Elected 1922, 1925, 1928, 1929, 1931, 1934, 1937, 1940, 1943, 1946, 1949 Minister for the Army from 19 December 1949 Minister for the Navy from 19 December 1949 -------------------------------------------------------------------- OXLEY, Qld ==================================================================== South-east Queensland: Bremer, Goodna, Ipswich, Rosewood -------------------------------------------------------------------- New seat: 1946 notional two-party majority: Liberal over ALP 09.8 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 37,338 Votes cast: 36,123 96.7 Informal votes: 726 02.0 Formal votes: 35,397 98.0 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Donald Cameron + Lib 14,895 42.1 +08.9 Edmund Crisp CPA 576 01.6 Evan Marginson ALP 14,268 40.3 +00.2 John Martin CP 5,658 16.0 -11.0 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 35,397 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Marginson was Qld MLA for Ipswich West 1969-72, Wolston 1972-77. -------------------------------------------------------------------- 2nd count: Crisp's 576 votes distributed -------------------------------------------------------------------- Cameron + 131 22.7 15,026 42.4 Marginson 401 69.6 14,669 41.4 Martin 44 07.6 5,702 16.1 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 576 35,397 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 3rd count: Martin's 5,702 votes distributed -------------------------------------------------------------------- CAMERON + 5,071 88.9 20,097 56.8 Marginson 631 11.1 15,300 43.2 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 5,702 35,397 06.8 03.0 to ALP -------------------------------------------------------------------- Donald Alastair Cameron (1900-74): Elected 1949 Born: 17 March 1900, Ipswich, Queensland. Career: Educated Ipswich College and University of Sydney. Doctor. General practitioner, Ipswich, Queensland, 1932. Military Service 1939-45. -------------------------------------------------------------------- PETRIE, Qld ==================================================================== Suburban Brisbane: Enoggera, Kedron, North Pine, Windsor -------------------------------------------------------------------- New seat: 1946 notional two-party majority: Liberal over ALP 00.8 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 42,929 Votes cast: 40,567 94.5 Informal votes: 683 01.7 Formal votes: 39,884 98.3 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- Alan HULME + Lib 23,803 59.7 +14.6 Samuel Martin ALP 14,593 36.6 -07.4 James Ryan 1,488 03.7 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 39,884 11.6 e 10.8 to Lib -------------------------------------------------------------------- Alan Shallcross Hulme (1907-89): Elected 1949 Born: 14 February 1907, Sydney. Career: Educated state schools, Sydney. Accountant, Brisbane. President, Queensland Division Liberal Party 1946-49. -------------------------------------------------------------------- RYAN, Qld ==================================================================== Suburban Brisbane: Ashgrove, Ithaca, Moggill, Toowong -------------------------------------------------------------------- New seat: 1946 notional two-party majority: Liberal over ALP 01.1 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 44,642 Votes cast: 42,103 94.3 Informal votes: 755 01.8 Formal votes: 41,348 98.2 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- Nigel DRURY + Lib 24,917 60.3 +17.3 Leonard Eastment ALP 16,431 39.7 -06.6 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 41,348 10.3 09.2 to Lib -------------------------------------------------------------------- Eastment was Qld MLA for Ithaca 1952-56. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Edward Nigel Drury (1911-84): Elected 1949 Born: 15 May 1911, Clifton, Queensland. Career: Educated Brisbane Grammar School. Corporate accountant. Military Service 1942-46. Queensland State Executive, Liberal Party. -------------------------------------------------------------------- WIDE BAY, Qld ==================================================================== Queensland Coast: Bundaberg, Childers, Maryborough, Pialba -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1946 two-party majority: Country Party over ALP 15.1 e Effect of 1948 redistribution: 09.7 shift to ALP New notional majority: Country Party over ALP 05.4 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 40,917 -34.2 Votes cast: 39,587 96.7 +03.4 Informal votes: 572 01.4 -00.5 Formal votes: 39,015 98.6 +00.5 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- Bernard CORSER * CP 22,037 56.5 +09.0 Robert McDowell 6,037 15.5 Samuel Round ALP 10,941 28.0 -07.9 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 39,015 14.3 e 08.9 to CP -------------------------------------------------------------------- Bernard Henry Corser (1882-1967): Elected 1928 By, 1929, 1931, 1934, 1937, 1940, 1943, 1946, 1949 --------------------------------------------------------------------