COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA LEGISLATIVE ELECTION OF 22 NOVEMBER 1958 ==================================================================== Source: Australian Government publications HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ==================================================================== VOTING BY DIVISION ==================================================================== TASMANIA ==================================================================== BASS, Tas ==================================================================== Northern Tasmania: Launceston, Lilydale, St Leonards -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1955 two-party majority: Labor over Liberal 07.1 e -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 36,115 +02.2 Votes cast: 35,062 97.1 -00.6 Informal votes: 1,258 03.6 -00.2 Formal votes: 33,804 96.4 +00.2 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- Leslie Arnold DLP 2,610 07.7 -00.2 Lance BARNARD * ALP 18,800 55.6 +00.1 Maxwell Bushby Lib 12,394 36.7 +00.1 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 33,804 07.9 e 00.8 to ALP -------------------------------------------------------------------- Bushby was Tas MHA for Bass 1961-86. He was the father of Senator David Bushby and of Senator Wendy Askew. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Lance Herbert Barnard (1919-97): Elected 1954, 1955, 1958 -------------------------------------------------------------------- BRADDON, Tas ==================================================================== Northern Tasmania: Devonport, Emu Bay, Leven, Table Cape -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1955 two-party majority: Liberal over Labor 08.9 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 35,282 +03.2 Votes cast: 33,888 96.0 -00.1 Informal votes: 1,334 03.9 00.0 Formal votes: 32,554 96.1 00.0 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- Ronald Davies ALP 15,243 46.8 +05.7 Francis Lane DLP 2,786 08.6 Aubrey Luck * Lib 14,525 44.6 -14.3 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 32,554 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 2nd count: Lane's 2,786 votes distributed -------------------------------------------------------------------- DAVIES 1,177 42.2 16,420 50.4 Luck * 1,609 57.8 16,134 49.6 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 2,786 32,554 00.4 09.3 to ALP -------------------------------------------------------------------- > Aubrey William George Luck (1900-99): Elected 1951, 1954, 1955. Defeated 1958 Died: 9 June 1999 > Ronald Davies (1919-80): Elected 1958 Born: 25 July 1919, La Trobe, Tasmania. Career: Educated state schools, University of Tasmania. Teacher. Military Service 1942-45. -------------------------------------------------------------------- DENISON, Tas ==================================================================== Hobart area: Hobart, Moonah, Nelson, New Town -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1955 two-party majority: Liberal over Labor 08.1 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 37,194 -03.4 Votes cast: 35,399 95.2 -00.1 Informal votes: 1,744 04.9 00.0 Formal votes: 33,655 95.1 00.0 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- Max Bound CPA 1,249 03.7 -02.0 Robert Lacey ALP 11,926 35.4 -01.4 Harold Senior DLP 2,775 08.2 Hon Athol TOWNLEY * Lib 17,705 52.6 -04.9 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 33,655 09.4 e 01.3 to Lib -------------------------------------------------------------------- For Lacey, see Senate Tasmania 1964. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Athol Gordon Townley (1907-63): Elected 1949, 1951, 1954, 1955, 1958 Minister for Supply to 10 December 1958 Minister for Defence from 10 December 1958 -------------------------------------------------------------------- FRANKLIN, Tas ==================================================================== Southern Tasmania: Clarence, Derwent Park, Glenorchy, Kingborough -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1955 two-party majority: Liberal over Labor 08.5 e -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 35,130 +12.6 Votes cast: 33,825 96.3 -00.8 Informal votes: 1,522 04.5 -00.2 Formal votes: 32,303 95.5 +00.2 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- Charles FALKINDER * Lib 17,484 54.1 +00.5 Lynda Heaven ALP 11,846 36.7 -03.6 Henry Scoles DLP 2,973 09.2 +03.1 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 32,303 11.5 e 03.0 to Lib -------------------------------------------------------------------- Heaven was Tas MHA for Franklin 1961-69. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Charles William Jackson Falkinder (1921-93): Elected 1946, 1949, 1951, 1954, 1955, 1958 -------------------------------------------------------------------- WILMOT, Tas ==================================================================== Central Tasmania: Beaconsfield, Deloraine, Latrobe, New Norfolk -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1955 two-party majority: Labor over Liberal 06.1 e -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 34,996 +16.6 Votes cast: 33,737 96.4 -00.1 Informal votes: 1,147 03.4 -00.3 Formal votes: 32,590 96.6 +00.3 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- Ralph Cameron Lib 11,328 34.8 -04.4 Gilbert DUTHIE * ALP 19,417 59.6 +04.6 Francis Lillis DLP 1,845 05.7 +00.0 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 32,590 10.7 e 04.6 to ALP -------------------------------------------------------------------- Gilbert William Arthur Duthie (1912-98): Elected 1946, 1949, 1951, 1954, 1955, 1958 --------------------------------------------------------------------