ELECTIONS TO THE TASMANIAN LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL ==================================================================== ELECTIONS IN 1921 ==================================================================== CAMBRIDGE ==================================================================== Following the death of Charles E Davies -------------------------------------------------------------------- Nominations 27 April, polling 3 May 1921 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Joseph DARLING 359 69.8 Arthur Morrisby 83 16.1 Patrick Ryan 72 14.0 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 514 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Morrisby was MLC for Gordon 1899-1916. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Joseph Darling (1870-1946): Elected 1921 by Born: 21 November 1870, South Australia Career: Son of South Australian MLC. Captain of the Australian cricket team 1896. Farmer, merchant. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Launceston Examiner, 10 May 1921 DERWENT ==================================================================== Following the death of Ellis Dean -------------------------------------------------------------------- Nominations 6 January 1921, polling 3 February 1921 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 1,651 Votes cast: 928 56.2 Informal votes: 16 01.7 Formal votes: 912 98.3 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Samuel S Brown 139 15.2 Charles D Hoggins 110 12.1 Ernest E Jones 120 13.2 David J O'Keefe Labor 182 20.0 Louis M Shoobridge Nationalist 361 39.6 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 912 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Hoggins was MHA for Hobart 1898-1900, 1900-03, for Denison 1917-19. 2. O'Keefe was a Senator for Tasmania 1901-06, 1910-20, MHR for Denison 1922-25, MHA for Wilmot 1934-43. -------------------------------------------------------------------- 2nd count: Hoggins's 110 votes distributed -------------------------------------------------------------------- Brown 21 19.1 160 17.5 Jones 31 28.2 151 16.6 O'Keefe 35 31.8 217 23.8 Shoobridge 23 20.9 384 42.1 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 110 912 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 3rd count: Jones's 151 votes distributed -------------------------------------------------------------------- Brown 35 23.2 195 21.4 O'Keefe 61 40.4 278 30.5 Shoobridge 55 36.4 439 48.1 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 151 912 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 4th count: Brown's 195 votes distributed -------------------------------------------------------------------- O'Keefe 37 21.5 315 35.4 SHOOBRIDGE 135 78.5 574 64.6 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Remaining 172 88.2 889 97.5 Exhaussted 23 11.8 23 02.5 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 195 912 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Louis Manton Shoobridge (1851-1939): Elected 1921 by Born: 25 October 1851, New Norfolk Career: Farmer. Son of Ebenezer Shoobridge MHA, brother of William Shoobridge MHA, father of Rupert Shoobridge MLC, grandfather of Louis M Shoobridge MLC. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Hobart Mercury, 11 February 1921 HOBART ==================================================================== Nominations April, polling 3 May 1921 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Frank Bond * 930 30.3 A H Clerke 548 17.9 Thomas Murdoch 739 24.1 David J O'Keefe Labor 851 27.7 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 3,068 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Murdoch was MLC for Hobart 1914-16. 2. For O'Keefe, House of Assembly, Wilmot 1934. -------------------------------------------------------------------- 2nd count: Clerke's 548 votes distributed -------------------------------------------------------------------- Bond * 242 44.2 1,172 38.2 Murdoch 241 44.0 1,092 35.6 O'Keefe 65 11.9 804 26.2 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 548 3,068 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 3rd count: O'Keefe's 804 votes distributed -------------------------------------------------------------------- Bond * 122 15.2 1,294 42.2 MURDOCH 682 84.8 1,774 57.8 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 804 3,068 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Frank Bond (1856-1931): Elected 1903. Defeated 1906. Elected 1909, 1915. Defeated 1921 Died 15 December 1931 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Thomas Murdoch (1868-1946): Elected 1914 by. Defeated 1916. Elected 1921 -------------------------------------------------------------------- RUSSELL ==================================================================== Nominations 23 April, polling 3 May 1921 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 3,157 Votes cast: 731 23.2 Informal votes: 9 01.2 Formal votes: 722 98.8 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Frank B Edwards 354 49.0 Charles H Hall * 129 17.9 Dr William A Harrison 75 10.4 David T Jones 164 22.7 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 722 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 2nd count: Harrison's 75 votes distributed -------------------------------------------------------------------- EDWARDS 29 38.7 383 53.0 Hall * 28 37.3 157 21.7 Jones 18 24.0 182 25.2 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 75 722 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Charles Henry Hall (1851-1922): Elected 1909, 1915. Defeated 1921 Died 4 November 1922 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Frank Bathurst Edwards (1887-1974?): Elected 1921 Born: 6 September 1887, NSW Career: To Tas 1894. Educated University of Tasmania, Oxford University. Barrister, public servant. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Burnie Advocate, 12 May 1921