ELECTIONS TO THE TASMANIAN LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL ==================================================================== ELECTIONS IN 1931 ==================================================================== DERWENT ==================================================================== Nominations 17 April, polling 5 May 1931 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 2,192 Votes cast: 1,311 59.8 Informal votes: 62 04.7 Formal votes: 1,249 95.3 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- William E Lloyd Labor 494 39.6 Louis M SHOOBRIDGE * Nationalist 755 60.4 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 1,249 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Louis Manton Shoobridge (1851-1939): Elected 1921 by, 1925, 1931 Shoobridge retired at the 1937 election. Died 12 March 1939 -------------------------------------------------------------------- TAMAR ==================================================================== Nominations 17 April, polling 5 May 1931 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 1,810 Total votes cast: 1,435 79.3 Informal votes: 23 01.6 Formal votes: 1,412 98.4 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Ernest W Freeland * 598 42.4 Alfred H Luck 499 35.3 Henry Robinson 315 22.3 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 1,412 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 2nd count: Robinson's 315 votes distributed -------------------------------------------------------------------- FREELAND * 111 35.2 709 50.2 Luck 204 64.8 703 49.8 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 315 1,412 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Ernest William Freeland (1870-1940): Elected 1919, 1925, 1931 -------------------------------------------------------------------- WESTMORLAND ==================================================================== Nominations 17 April, polling 5 May 1931 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 3,141 Total votes cast: 2,136 68.0 Informal votes: 102 04.8 Formal votes: 2,034 95.2 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- John W CHEEK * 1,476 73.0 Allen Hollingsworth 558 27.0 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 2,023 -------------------------------------------------------------------- For Hollingsworth, see House of Assembly, Bass 1934. -------------------------------------------------------------------- John William Cheek (1855-1942): Elected 1907. Retired 1913. Elected 1919 by, 1925, 1931 --------------------------------------------------------------------