ELECTIONS TO THE TASMANIAN LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL ==================================================================== ELECTIONS IN 1919 ==================================================================== DERWENT ==================================================================== Nominations 25 April 1919 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Ellis DEAN * Unopposed -------------------------------------------------------------------- Ellis Dean (1854-1920): Elected 1901, 1907, 1913, 1919 Died 8 November 1920 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Hobart Mercury, 26 April 1919 TAMAR ==================================================================== Nominations 30 April, polling 6 May 1919 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Richard C Field 321 33.0 Ernest W Freeland 373 38.4 Henry Murray 137 14.1 George Sheilds 97 10.0 Montagu M L Vertigan 44 04.5 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 972 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Field was MHA for Wilmot 1909-12. 2. Murray was MHA for East Devon 1891-97, for Latrobe 1897-98. for Devonport 1898-1900, for Latrobe 1902-09. 3. For Shields, see House of Assembly, Bass 1923 countback. -------------------------------------------------------------------- 2nd count: Vertigan's 44 votes distributed -------------------------------------------------------------------- Field 5 11.4 326 33.5 Freeland 8 18.2 381 39.2 Murray 14 31.8 151 15.5 Sheilds 17 38.6 114 11.7 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 44 972 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 3rd count: Sheilds's 114 votes distributed -------------------------------------------------------------------- Field 33 29.0 359 36.9 Freeland 48 42.1 429 44.1 Murray 33 29.0 184 18.9 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 114 972 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 4th count: Murray's 184 votes distributed -------------------------------------------------------------------- Field 90 58.4 449 47.7 FREELAND 64 41.6 493 52.3 Remaining 154 942 Exhausted 30 30 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 184 972 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Ernest William Freeland (1870-1940): Elected 1919 Born: 12 January 1870, Carrick Career: Farmer. Beaconsfield Municipal Council. He was Shields's nephew. -------------------------------------------------------------------- WESTMORLAND ==================================================================== Nominations 25 April, polling 5 May 1919 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Richard J S McKENZIE * 310 52.4 David Storrer 183 30.9 Harry Young 99 16.7 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 592 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Storrer was MHA for Launceston 1902-03, for Launceston West 1903, MHR for Bass 1903-10. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Richard John Stevenson McKenzie (1850-1919): Elected 1906, 1909. Defeated 1913. Elected 1913 Died 13 October 1919: see by-election -------------------------------------------------------------------- WESTMORLAND ==================================================================== Following the death of Richard J S McKenzie -------------------------------------------------------------------- Nominations 15 November 1919 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- John W CHEEK Unopposed -------------------------------------------------------------------- Cheek was MLC for Westmorland 1907-13. -------------------------------------------------------------------- John William Cheek (1855-1942): Elected 1907. Retired 1913. Elected 1919 by --------------------------------------------------------------------