ELECTIONS TO THE TASMANIAN LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL ==================================================================== ELECTIONS IN 1915 ==================================================================== CAMBRIDGE ==================================================================== Nominations 23 April 1915 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Charles E DAVIES * Unopposed -------------------------------------------------------------------- Charles Ellis Davies (1847-1921): Elected 1897, 1903, 1909, 1915 Died 1 February 1921: See by-election -------------------------------------------------------------------- Launceston Examiner, 24 April 1915 HOBART ==================================================================== Nominations 23 April, polling 4 May 1915 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Frank BOND * 1,629 52.0 Dr William E Bottrill 272 08.7 William Crooke 108 03.5 Edmund Dwywer Gray Labor 864 27.8 Martin M Ryan Labor 251 08.0 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 3,124 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. For Dwyer Gray (later Dwyer-Gray), see House of Assembly 1928, Denison. 2. Labor ran two candidates because the party was divided on the issue of state aid to Catholic schools, which Dwyer Gray opposed and Ryan supported. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Frank Bond (1856-1931): Elected 1903. Defeated 1906. Elected 1909, 1915 -------------------------------------------------------------------- LAUNCESTON ==================================================================== Following the death of Charles Russen -------------------------------------------------------------------- Nominations 5 January, polling 22 January 1915 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 2,562 Votes cast: 1,296 50.6 Informal votes: 25 01.9 Formal votes: 1,271 89.1 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- William C Oldham 329 25.9 George Paton 245 19.3 Tasman Shields 317 24.9 David Storrer 263 20.7 William C Wilson 117 09.2 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 1,271 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Storrer was MHA for Launceston 1902-03, for West Launceston 1903. MHR for Bass 1903-10. -------------------------------------------------------------------- 2nd count: Wilson's 117 votes distributed -------------------------------------------------------------------- Oldham 22 18.8 351 27.6 Paton 23 19.7 268 21.1 Shields 32 27.4 349 27.5 Storrer 40 34.2 303 23.8 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 117 1,271 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 3rd count: Paton's 268 votes distributed -------------------------------------------------------------------- Oldham 85 31.7 436 34.3 Shields 78 29.1 427 33.6 Storrer 105 39.2 408 32.1 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 268 1,271 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 4th count: Storrer's 408 votes distributed -------------------------------------------------------------------- Oldham 121 36.3 557 46.6 SHIELDS 212 63.7 639 53.4 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Remaining 333 81.6 1,196 94.1 Exhausted 75 18.4 75 05.9 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 408 1,271 03.4 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Tasman Shields (1872-1950): Elected 1915 by Born: 20 November 1872, Launceston Career: Educated University of Tasmania. Lawyer. Brother of George Shields MHA. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Member of the Executive Council without Office 15 April 1916 to 12 August 1922 -------------------------------------------------------------------- RUSSELL ==================================================================== Nominations 23 April 1915 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Charles H HALL * Unopposed -------------------------------------------------------------------- Charles Henry Hall (1851-1922): Elected 1909, 1915 --------------------------------------------------------------------