COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA LEGISLATIVE ELECTION OF 18 OCTOBER 1980 ==================================================================== THE SENATE ==================================================================== TASMANIA (Five senators to be elected) ==================================================================== Enrolled voters: 273,752 +04.4 Votes cast: 263,489 96.3 -00.4 Informal votes: 19,651 07.5 +00.4 Formal votes: 243,838 92.5 -00.4 Quota for election: 40,640 16.7 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Peter RAE * Lib 79,411 32.6 ELECTED 1 Michael Townley * Lib 13,879 05.7 Group A Peter Jones Lib 2,808 01.2 Q:2.365 Brian HARRADINE * 51,912 21.3 ELECTED 3 Harry Upston 335 00.1 Group B > Q:1.286 Norman Siberry AD 6,542 02.7 Group C Rae Saxon AD 488 00.2 Q:0.191 Brian Austen AD 750 00.3 Jean HEARN * ALP 53,164 21.8 ELECTED 2 John Coates ALP 29,391 12.1 Group D John White ALP 4,278 01.8 Q:2.137 Edmund Press 492 00.2 Q:0.1210 Norman Eather 388 00.2 Q:0.0955 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 243,838 -------------------------------------------------------------------- White was Tas MHA for Denison 1986-98, MLC for Newdegate 1998-99. -------------------------------------------------------------------- 2nd count: Rae's 38,771 surplus votes distributed -------------------------------------------------------------------- RAE * E 40,640 16.7 ELECTED 1 TOWNLEY * 36,499 94.1 50,378 20.7 ELECTED 4 Jones 1,668 04.3 4,476 01.8 HARRADINE * E 51,912 21.3 ELECTED 3 Upston 144 00.4 479 00.2 Siberry 173 00.4 6,715 02.8 Saxon 32 00.1 520 00.2 Austen 21 00.1 771 00.3 HEARN * E 53,164 21.8 ELECTED 2 Coates 197 00.5 29,588 12.1 White 20 00.1 4,298 01.8 Press 13 00.0 505 00.2 Eather 4 00.0 392 00.2 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 38,771 243,838 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 3rd count: Hearn's 12,524 surplus votes distributed -------------------------------------------------------------------- RAE * E 40,640 16.7 ELECTED 1 TOWNLEY * 35 00.3 50,413 20.7 ELECTED 4 Jones 9 00.1 4,485 01.8 HARRADINE * E 51,912 21.3 ELECTED 3 Upston 17 00.1 496 00.2 Siberry 20 00.2 6,735 02.8 Saxon 14 00.1 534 00.2 Austen 8 00.1 779 00.3 HEARN * E 40,640 16.7 ELECTED 2 COATES 12,117 96.8 41,705 17.1 ELECTED 5 White 285 02.3 4,583 01.9 Press 12 00.1 517 00.2 Eather 7 00.1 399 00.2 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 12,524 243,838 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Senators' terms began 1 July 1981. Coates, Harradine, Hearn, Rae and Townley elected for a term ending 30 June 1987. Continuing senators (term to end 30 June 1981): Brian ARCHER (Lib), Dr Donald GRIMES (ALP), Michael TATE (ALP), Shirley WALTERS (Lib), John WATSON (Lib) -------------------------------------------------------------------- > Brian Roper Archer (1929-2013): Elected 1975, 1977 > John Coates (born 1944): Elected 1980 Born: 23 February 1944, Melbourne Career: Educated University of Sydney. Biochemist, University of Tasmania. MHR for Denison 1972-75. > Donald James Grimes (born 1937): Elected 1974, 1975, 1977 > Brian Harradine (1935-2014): Elected 1975, 1980 > Jean Margaret Hearn (1921-2017): Apppointed 1980 > Peter Elliot Rae (born 1932): Elected 1967, 1974, 1975, 1980 > Michael Carter Tate (born 1945): Elected 1977 > Michael Townley (born 1934): Elected 1970, 1974, 1975, 1980 > Mary Shirley Walters (1925-2017): Elected 1975, 1977 > John Odin Wentworth Watson (born 1937): Elected 1977 --------------------------------------------------------------------