REFERENDUM OF 19 AUGUST 1944
===================================================================
Title: Constitutional Alteration (Postwar Reconstruction and
 Democratic Rights)
-------------------------------------------------------------------

Proposal: To amend the Constitution to give the Commonwealth power 
for five years over fourteen specified matters relating to postwar 
reconstruction, and to provide guarantees of various civil rights.

State       Enrolment        Turnout          Informal   
-------------------------------------------------------------------
NSW         1,758,166      1,694,119 (96.3)     23,228 (01.4)
Vic         1,266,662      1,227,571 (96.9)     15,236 (01.2)
Qld           633,907        599,568 (94.6)      7,444 (01.2)
SA            403,133        392,443 (97.3)      4,832 (01.2)
WA            278,722        272,339 (97.7)      3,637 (01.3)
Tas           143,359        139,411 (97.2)      2,256 (01.6)
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Total       4,483,949      4,325,451 (96.5)     56,633 (01.3)
-------------------------------------------------------------------

State         Formal        For                  Against
-------------------------------------------------------------------
NSW         1,670,891       759,211 (45.4)       911,680 (54.6) *
Vic         1,212,335       597,848 (49.3)       614,498 (50.7) *
Qld           592,124       216,262 (36.5)       375,862 (63.5) *
SA            387,611       196,294 (50.6) *     191,317 (49.4)
WA            268,702       140,399 (52.2) *     128,303 (47.8)
Tas           137,155        53,386 (38.9)        83,769 (61.1) *
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Total       4,268,818     1,963,400 (46.0)     2,305,418 (54.0) *
-------------------------------------------------------------------
The proposal was rejected nationally and in four states and was 
therefore not carried.
-------------------------------------------------------------------