COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA TWENTY-NINTH PARLIAMENT ==================================================================== HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ==================================================================== BY-ELECTIONS ==================================================================== BASS, Tas ==================================================================== Northern Tasmania: Georgetown, Launceston, Lilydale, St Leonards -------------------------------------------------------------------- 28 June 1975, following the resignation of Hon Lance Barnard -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1974 two-party majority: ALP over Liberal 04.0 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 46,744 -00.4 Votes cast: 43,563 93.2 -02.0 Informal votes: 773 01.8 -00.2 Formal votes: 42,790 98.2 +00.2 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- Marcus Aussie-Stone 243 00.6 Paul Kent 904 02.1 John Macrostie ALP 15,609 36.5 -17.5 Sydney Negus 124 00.3 Kevin NEWMAN Lib 24,638 57.6 +11.6 Violet Petrovsky 1,272 03.0 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 42,790 10.3 e 14.3 to Lib -------------------------------------------------------------------- Negus was a Senator for Western Australia 1971-74. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Kevin Eugene Newman (1933-99): Elected 1975 By Born: 10 October 1933, Sydney Career: Educated Royal Military College, Duntroon. Military Service 1956-75. Husband of Senator Hon Jocelyn Newman. Father of Hon Campbell Newman, Premier of Queensland. --------------------------------------------------------------------