COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA LEGISLATIVE ELECTION OF 29 MAY 1954 ==================================================================== Source: Australian Government publications HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ==================================================================== VOTING BY DIVISION ==================================================================== TASMANIA ==================================================================== BASS, Tas ==================================================================== Northern Tasmania: Launceston, Lilydale, St Leonards -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1951 two-party majority: Liberal over ALP 03.4 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 33,986 +03.0 Votes cast: 32,858 96.7 -00.1 Informal votes: 289 00.9 -02.7 Formal votes: 32,569 99.1 +02.7 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- Lance BARNARD ALP 16,623 51.0 +04.4 Bruce Kekwick * Lib 15,946 49.0 -04.4 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 32,569 01.0 04.4 to ALP -------------------------------------------------------------------- > Bruce Huntley Kekwick (1910-82): Elected 1949, 1951. Defeated 1954 Later career: Company director and musical director. Died 2 February 1982 > Lance Herbert Barnard (1919-97): Elected 1954 Born: 1 May 1919, Launceston, Tasmania. Career: Educated Launceston Technical College. Teacher, official of Teachers' Union. Military Service 1940-45. President Tasmanian ALP 1966-67 1970-71. Son of Hon Claude Barnard MP. -------------------------------------------------------------------- DARWIN, Tas ==================================================================== Northern Tasmania: Devenport, Leven, Emu Bay, Table Cape -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1951 two-party majority: Liberal over ALP 04.0 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 34,036 +08.2 Votes cast: 32,847 96.5 -00.8 Informal votes: 283 00.9 -01.8 Formal votes: 32,564 99.1 +01.8 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- Arthur Foster ALP 16,117 49.5 Aubrey LUCK * Lib 16,447 50.5 +00.8 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 32,564 00.5 03.5 to ALP -------------------------------------------------------------------- The ALP vote of 49.5% was a decrease of 0.8% from the 50.3% polled by two ALP candidates in 1951. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Aubrey William George Luck (1900-99): Elected 1951, 1954 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Darwin was abolished at the 1955 redistribution. Luck contested Braddon in 1955. -------------------------------------------------------------------- DENISON, Tas ==================================================================== Hobart area: Hobart, Newtown, Queenborough -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1951 two-party majority: Liberal over ALP 03.3 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 29,112 -06.7 Votes cast: 27,884 95.8 -00.3 Informal votes: 430 01.5 -00.8 Formal votes: 27,454 98.5 +00.8 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- Max Bound CPA 688 02.5 Robert Lacey ALP 12,322 44.9 -01.8 Hon Athol TOWNLEY * Lib 14,444 52.6 -00.7 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 27,454 02.8 e 00.5 to ALP -------------------------------------------------------------------- For Lacey, see Senate Tasmania 1964. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Athol Gordon Townley (1907-63): Elected 1949, 1951, 1954 Minister for Social Services to 9 July 1954 Minister for Air from 9 July 1954 Minister for Civil Aviation from 9 July 1954 -------------------------------------------------------------------- FRANKLIN, Tas ==================================================================== Southern Tasmania: Clarence, Kingborough, Moonah, Nelson -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1951 two-party majority: Liberal over ALP 05.4 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 39,883 +15.9 Votes cast: 38,149 95.7 -01.4 Informal votes: 306 00.8 -02.0 Formal votes: 37,843 99.2 +02.0 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- Charles FALKINDER * Lib 20,447 54.0 -01.4 Stewart Frost ALP 17,396 46.0 +01.4 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 37,843 04.0 01.4 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, 1954 -------------------------------------------------------------------- WILMOT, Tas ==================================================================== Central Tasmania: Beaconsfield, Deloraine, Latrobe, New Norfolk -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1951 two-party majority: ALP over Liberal 03.1 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 35,513 +04.7 Votes cast: 34,441 97.0 +00.9 Informal votes: 289 00.8 -02.5 Formal votes: 34,152 99.2 +02.5 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- Lionel Browning Lib 14,959 43.8 -03.1 Gilbert DUTHIE * ALP 19,193 56.2 +03.1 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 34,152 06.2 03.1 to ALP -------------------------------------------------------------------- Gilbert William Arthur Duthie (1912-98): Elected 1946, 1949, 1951, 1954 --------------------------------------------------------------------