COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA LEGISLATIVE ELECTION OF 28 APRIL 1951 ==================================================================== Source: Australian Government publications HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ==================================================================== VOTING BY DIVISION ==================================================================== TASMANIA ==================================================================== BASS, Tas ==================================================================== Northern Tasmania: Launceston, Lilydale, St Leonards -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1949 two-party majority: Liberal over ALP 00.6 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 33,003 +00.4 Votes cast: 31,952 96.8 -00.1 Informal votes: 1,137 03.6 -00.9 Formal votes: 30,815 96.4 +00.9 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- Bruce KEKWICK * Lib 16,469 53.4 +02.8 Colman O'Byrne ALP 14,346 46.6 -02.8 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 30,815 03.4 02.8 to Lib -------------------------------------------------------------------- O'Byrne was the brother of Senator Hon Justin O'Byrne. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Bruce Huntley Kekwick (1910-82): Elected 1949, 1951 -------------------------------------------------------------------- DARWIN, Tas ==================================================================== Northern Tasmania: Devenport, Leven, Emu Bay, Table Cape -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1949 two-party majority: Liberal over ALP 06.6 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 31,470 +02.3 Votes cast: 30,632 97.3 +00.5 Informal votes: 822 02.7 +00.3 Formal votes: 29,810 97.3 -00.3 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- Arthur Foster ALP 5,171 17.3 Aubrey Luck + Lib 14,819 49.7 -06.9 Maxwell Poulter ALP 9,820 32.9 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 29,810 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. For Poulter, see Senate Queensland 1961. 2. The combined ALP vote was 50.3%, an increase of 6.9% from the 43.4% polled by one ALP candidate in 1949. -------------------------------------------------------------------- 2nd count: Foster's 5,171 votes distributed -------------------------------------------------------------------- LUCK + 1,284 24.8 16,103 54.0 Poulter 3,887 75.2 13,707 46.0 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 5,171 29,810 04.0 02.6 to ALP -------------------------------------------------------------------- Aubrey William George Luck (1900-99): Elected 1951 Born: 14 November 1900, West Tamar, Tasmania. Career: Educated state schools, Tasmania. Hardware and building merchant, Devonport, Tasmania. Devonport Municipal Council. -------------------------------------------------------------------- DENISON, Tas ==================================================================== Hobart area: Hobart, Newtown Queenborough -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1949 two-party majority: Liberal over ALP 05.1 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 31,209 -03.3 Votes cast: 29,995 96.1 +01.8 Informal votes: 1,001 03.3 +01.3 Formal votes: 28,994 96.7 -01.3 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- Mervyn McNeair ALP 13,545 46.7 +01.8 Athol TOWNLEY * Lib 15,449 53.3 -01.8 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 28,994 03.3 01.8 to ALP -------------------------------------------------------------------- Athol Gordon Townley (1907-63): Elected 1949, 1951 Minister for Social Services from 11 May 1951 -------------------------------------------------------------------- FRANKLIN, Tas ==================================================================== Southern Tasmania: Clarence, Kingborough, Moonah, Nelson -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1949 two-party majority: Liberal over ALP 08.0 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 34,399 +06.4 Votes cast: 33,377 97.0 +00.3 Informal votes: 934 02.8 +00.2 Formal votes: 32,443 97.2 -00.2 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- Charles FALKINDER * Lib 17,983 55.4 -02.6 Stewart Frost ALP 14,460 44.6 +02.6 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 32,443 05.4 02.6 to ALP -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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, 1951 -------------------------------------------------------------------- WILMOT, Tas ==================================================================== Central Tasmania: Beaconsfield, Deloraine, Latrobe, New Norfolk -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1949 two-party majority: ALP over Liberal 02.6 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 33,919 +01.9 Votes cast: 32,612 96.1 +00.8 Informal votes: 1,072 03.3 00.0 Formal votes: 31,540 96.7 00.0 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- Lionel Browning Lib 14,794 46.9 -00.5 Gilbert DUTHIE * ALP 16,746 53.1 +00.5 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 31,540 03.1 00.5 to ALP -------------------------------------------------------------------- Gilbert William Arthur Duthie (1912-98): Elected 1946, 1949, 1951 --------------------------------------------------------------------