ELECTIONS TO THE TASMANIAN LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL ==================================================================== ELECTIONS IN 1929 ==================================================================== HOBART ==================================================================== Nominations 24 April, polling 7 May 1929 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 8,091 Votes cast: 5,184 64.1 Informal votes: 119 02.3 Formal votes: 5,065 97.7 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- John H Cleary Labor 937 18.5 William E Lloyd 1,537 30.3 Hon William B PROPSTING * 2,591 51.2 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 5,065 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Cleary was MHA for Denison 1916-28. -------------------------------------------------------------------- William Bispham Propsting (1861-1937): Elected 1899, 1900, 1903. Resigned 1905. Elected 1905 by, 1911, 1917, 1923, 1929 -------------------------------------------------------------------- President of the Legislative Council -------------------------------------------------------------------- MEANDER ==================================================================== Nominations 24 April, polling 7 May 1929 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 2,719 Votes cast: 1,934 71.1 Informal votes: 36 01.9 Formal votes: 1,898 98.1 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Ernest F B Blyth 678 35.7 D Norman Cameron 139 07.3 E T Clements 356 18.8 Hubert A Nichols * 725 38.2 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 1,898 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Blyth was MHA for Wilmot 1913-25. 2. Cameron was MHA for Deloraine 1893-94, 1897-99, MHR for Tasmania 1901-03, for Wilmot 1904-06, MHA for Wilmot 1912-13, 1925-28. -------------------------------------------------------------------- 2nd count: Cameron's 139 votes distributed -------------------------------------------------------------------- Blyth 56 40.3 734 38.7 Clements 34 24.5 390 20.5 Nichols * 49 35.3 774 40.8 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 139 1,898 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 3rd count: Clements's 390 votes distributed -------------------------------------------------------------------- Blyth 151 38.7 885 46.6 NICHOLS * 239 61.3 1,013 53.4 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 390 1,898 03.4 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Hubert Allan Nichols (1864-1940): Elected 1902 by, 1906, 1912, 1918. Defeated 1924. Elected 1926 by, 1929 -------------------------------------------------------------------- PEMBROKE ==================================================================== Nominations 24 April, polling 7 May 1929 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 2,283 Votes cast: 1,676 73.4 Informal votes: 29 01.6 Formal votes: 1,647 98.4 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Ira H Howard 276 16.7 James MURDOCH * 1,371 83.3 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 1,647 33.3 -------------------------------------------------------------------- James Murdoch (1886-1935): Elected 1925 by, 1929 --------------------------------------------------------------------