COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA LEGISLATIVE ELECTION OF 2 DECEMBER 1972 ==================================================================== Source: Australian Government publications HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ==================================================================== VOTING BY DIVISION ==================================================================== AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY ==================================================================== AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY ==================================================================== 1969 two-party majority: ALP over Liberal 21.2 e 1970 by-election two-party majority: ALP over Liberal 07.8 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 83,591 +32.1 Votes cast: 78,509 93.9 +01.0 Informal votes: 1,506 01.9 +00.1 Formal votes: 77,003 98.1 -00.1 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- Barry Blair 670 00.9 Arthur Burns 3,133 04.1 Terence Christie DLP 2,758 03.6 June Eatock 2,003 02.6 Keppel ENDERBY * ALP 40,147 52.1 -15.6 Alan Fitzgerald AP 10,529 13.7 +09.1 Peter Hughes Lib 17,556 22.8 -04.1 Harry Marsh 67 00.1 Michael Salvador 140 00.2 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 77,003 15.5 e 05.7 to Lib -------------------------------------------------------------------- Burns was professor of politics at the Australian National University. He ran as an Independent Labor candidate on an anti- abortion platform. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Keppel Earl Enderby (1926-2015): Elected 1970 By, 1972 Minister for the Capital Territory 19 December 1972 to 9 October 1973 Minister for the Northern Territory 19 December 1972 to 19 October 1973 Minister for Secondary Industry from 9 October 1973 Minister for Supply from 9 October 1973 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Australian Capital Territory was abolished at the 1974 redistribution. Enderby contested Canberra in 1974. --------------------------------------------------------------------