COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA TWENTIETH PARLIAMENT ==================================================================== Source: Australian Government publications BY-ELECTIONS ==================================================================== LYNE, NSW ==================================================================== North Coast NSW: Kempsey, Macksville, Port Macquarie, Taree -------------------------------------------------------------------- 22 March 1952, following the death of Jim Eggins -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1951 two-party majority: Country Party over ALP 18.8 e -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 40,160 +00.6 Votes cast: 36,974 92.1 -04.9 Informal votes: 565 01.5 -00.1 Formal votes: 36,409 98.5 +00.1 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- Joseph Cordner 421 01.2 Edward Hayes ALP 13,588 37.3 +07.4 Donald Lancaster + CP 10,631 29.2 Philip Lucock + CP 10,994 30.2 Edward Spensley 775 02.1 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 36,409 -------------------------------------------------------------------- The combined Country Party vote was 59.4%, a decline of 6.1% from the 65.5% polled by one Country Party candidate in 1951. -------------------------------------------------------------------- 2nd count: Cordner's 421 votes distributed -------------------------------------------------------------------- Hayes 274 65.1 13,862 38.1 Lancaster + 64 15.2 10,695 29.4 Lucock + 41 09.7 11,035 30.3 Spensley 42 10.0 817 02.2 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 421 36,409 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 3rd count: Spensley's 817 votes distributed -------------------------------------------------------------------- Hayes 148 (18.1 14,010 38.5 Lancaster + 276 33.8 10,971 30.1 Lucock + 393 48.1 11,428 31.4 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 817 36,409 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 4th count: Lancaster's 10,971 votes distributed -------------------------------------------------------------------- Hayes 915 08.3 14,925 41.0 LUCOCK + 10,056 91.7 21,484 59.0 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 10,971 36,409 09.0 09.8 to ALP -------------------------------------------------------------------- Philip Ernest Lucock (1916-96): Elected 1952 by Born: 16 January 1916, Kent, England. Career: Migrated to New Zealand 1923, to Australia 1937. Educated New Zealand. Worked in retail trade. Military Service 1941-42. Presbyterian minister 1948. Minister, Wingham, NSW. Religious broadcaster. --------------------------------------------------------------------