COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA LEGISLATIVE ELECTION OF 10 DECEMBER 1949 ==================================================================== Source: Australian Government publications HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ==================================================================== VOTING BY DIVISION ==================================================================== TASMANIA ==================================================================== BASS, Tas ==================================================================== Northern Tasmania: Launceston, Lilydale, St Leonards -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1946 two-party majority: ALP over Liberal 07.0 Effect of 1948 redistribution: 00.8 shift to Liberal New notional majority: ALP over Liberal 06.2 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 32,876 +12.0 Votes cast: 31,863 96.9 +03.0 Informal votes: 865 02.7 +00.7 Formal votes: 30,998 97.3 -00.7 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- Hon Claude Barnard * ALP 15,312 49.4 -06.8 Bruce KEKWICK Lib 15,686 50.6 +06.8 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 30,998 00.6 06.8 to Lib -------------------------------------------------------------------- > Herbert Claude Barnard (1890-1957): Elected 1934, 1937, 1940, 1943, 1946. Defeated 1949 Minister for Repatriation to 19 December 1949 Later career: Tas MHA for Bass 1950-57. Died 6 December 1957 > Bruce Huntley Kekwick (1910-82): Elected 1949 Born: 24 April 1910, South Australia. Career: Educated state schools, Adelaide. Company director. Insurance executive, Tasmania. Military Service 1940-46. -------------------------------------------------------------------- DARWIN, Tas ==================================================================== Northern Tasmania: Devenport, Leven, Emu Bay, Table Cape -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1946 two-party majority: Liberal over ALP 04.2 Effect of 1948 redistribution: 00.9 shift to ALP New notional majority: Liberal over ALP 03.3 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 30,774 -05.1 Votes cast: 29,785 96.8 +04.4 Informal votes: 728 02.4 00.0 Formal votes: 29,057 97.6 00.0 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- Harold Kirkpatrick ALP 12,602 43.4 -03.3 Dame Enid LYONS * Lib 16,455 56.6 +03.3 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 29,057 06.6 03.3 to Lib -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enid Muriel Lyons (1897-1981): Elected 1940, 1943, 1946, 1949 Vice-President of the Executive Council 19 December 1949 to 7 March 1951 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Lyons was the first woman Cabinet minister in the Commonwealth Parliament, although she did not administer a department. She resigned from the ministry due to ill-health. She retired at the 1951 election. Later career: Author and columnist. Member Australian Broadcasting Commission 1951-62. Died 2 September 1981 -------------------------------------------------------------------- DENISON, Tas ==================================================================== Hobart area: Hobart, Newtown, Queenborough -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1946 two-party majority: ALP over Liberal 07.0 Effect of 1948 redistribution: 01.2 shift to Liberal New notional majority: ALP over Liberal 05.8 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 32,278 +02.8 Votes cast: 30,439 94.3 +00.9 Informal votes: 614 02.0 -01.0 Formal votes: 29,825 98.0 +01.0 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- Henry Cosgrove + ALP 13,394 44.9 -10.9 Athol TOWNLEY Lib 16,431 55.1 +10.9 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 29,825 05.1 10.9 to Lib -------------------------------------------------------------------- Cosgrove was the son of Hon Sir Robert Cosgrove MHA, Premier of Tasmania 1939-47, 1948-58. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Athol Gordon Townley (1907-63): Elected 1949 Born: 3 October 1907, Hobart. Career: Educated state schools and University of Tasmania. Pharmacist. Military Service 1939-45. Brother of Rex Townley MHA, Leader of the Opposition 1950-56. Uncle of Senator Michael Townley. -------------------------------------------------------------------- FRANKLIN, Tas ==================================================================== Southern Tasmania: Clarence, Kingborough, Moonah, Nelson -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1946 two-party majority: Liberal over ALP 00.1 Effect of 1948 redistribution: 01.0 shift to Liberal New notional majority: Liberal over ALP 01.1 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 32,324 -04.1 Votes cast: 31,256 96.7 +02.1 Informal votes: 822 02.6 -00.1 Formal votes: 30,434 97.4 +00.1 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- Charles FALKINDER * Lib 17,644 58.0 +06.9 Stewart Frost ALP 12,790 42.0 -06.9 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 30,434 08.0 06.9 to Lib -------------------------------------------------------------------- Frost was Tas MHA for Franklin 1964-76. He was the son of Hon Charles Frost MP. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Charles William Jackson Falkinder (1921-93): Elected 1946, 1949 -------------------------------------------------------------------- WILMOT, Tas ==================================================================== Central Tasmania: Beaconsfield, Deloraine, Latrobe, New Norfolk -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1946 two-party majority: ALP over Liberal 01.7 Effect of 1948 redistribution: no change -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 33,288 +21.6 Votes cast: 31,718 95.3 +00.7 Informal votes: 1,036 03.3 +00.7 Formal votes: 30,682 96.7 -00.7 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- Gilbert DUTHIE * ALP 16,150 52.6 +00.9 Richard Furmage Lib 14,532 47.4 -00.9 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 30,682 02.6 00.9 to ALP -------------------------------------------------------------------- Gilbert William Arthur Duthie (1912-98): Elected 1946, 1949 --------------------------------------------------------------------