ELECTIONS TO THE TASMANIAN LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL ==================================================================== Sources: Reports of the Chief Electoral Officer (from 1929) QUEENBOROUGH ==================================================================== QUEENBOROUGH ==================================================================== Nominations 21 April, polling 10 May 1947 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 4,286 Votes cast: 3,211 74.9 Informal votes: 58 01.8 Formal votes: 3,153 98.2 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Russell O Lyons 1,435 45.5 William H STRUTT * 1,718 54.5 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 3,153 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Strutt was MLC for Hobart 1938-47. -------------------------------------------------------------------- William Henry Strutt (1878-1948): Elected 1938 by, 1941, 1947 Died 5 March 1948: see by-election -------------------------------------------------------------------- QUEENBOROUGH ==================================================================== Following the death of William H Strutt -------------------------------------------------------------------- Nominations 26 April, polling 8 May 1948 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 4,292 Votes cast: 3,436 80.1 Informal votes: 72 02.0 Formal votes: 3,364 98.0 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Hon Henry S Baker 1,424 42.3 Hubert C Lewis 824 24.5 Alan Miller 1,116 33.2 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 3,364 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Baker was MHA for Franklin 1928-46. -------------------------------------------------------------------- 2nd count: Lewis's 824 votes distributed -------------------------------------------------------------------- BAKER 422 51.2 1,846 54.9 Miller 402 48.8 1,518 45.1 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 824 3,364 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Henry Seymour Baker (1890-1968: Elected 1948 by -------------------------------------------------------------------- QUEENBOROUGH ==================================================================== Nominations 10 April, polling 2 May 1953 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 4,267 Votes cast: 3,399 79.7 Informal votes: 50 01.5 Formal votes: 3,349 98.5 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Hon Henry S BAKER * 1,790 53.4 Mabel Miller 1,559 46.6 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 3,349 -------------------------------------------------------------------- For Miller, see House of Assembly, Denison 1955 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Henry Seymour Baker (1890-1968: Elected 1948 by, 1953 --------------------------------------------------------------------