ELECTIONS TO THE TASMANIAN LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL ==================================================================== ELECTIONS IN 1935 ==================================================================== HOBART ==================================================================== Nominations 15 April, polling 7 May 1935 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 6,477 Votes cast: 5,707 88.1 Informal votes: 97 01.7 Formal votes: 5,610 98.3 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Francis X Heerey Labor 2,778 49.5 Hon William B PROPSTING * 2,832 50.5 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 5,610 -------------------------------------------------------------------- For Heerey, see House of Assembly, Denison 1937. -------------------------------------------------------------------- William Bispham Propsting (1861-1937): Elected 1899, 1900, 1903. Resigned 1905. Elected 1905 by, 1911, 1917, 1923, 1929, 1935 Died 3 December 1937: see by-election -------------------------------------------------------------------- President of the Legislative Council to 3 December 1937 -------------------------------------------------------------------- MEANDER ==================================================================== Nominations 15 April, polling 7 May 1935 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 2,281 Votes cast: 1,904 83.5 Informal votes: 30 01.6 Formal votes: 1,874 98.4 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Percival C Best 592 31.6 Thomas J Butler 388 20.7 Hubert A Nichols * 560 29.9 David Russell 334 17.8 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 1,874 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Best was MHA for Wilmot 1928-31. 2. Butler was MHA for Darwin 1931-34. -------------------------------------------------------------------- 2nd count: Russell's 334 votes distributed -------------------------------------------------------------------- Best 159 47.6 751 40.1 Butler 40 12.0 428 22.8 Nichols * 135 40.4 695 37.1 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 334 1,874 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 3rd count: Butler's 428 votes distributed -------------------------------------------------------------------- BEST 230 53.7 981 52.3 Nichols * 198 46.3 893 47.7 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 428 1,874 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Hubert Allan Nichols (1864-1940): Elected 1902 by, 1906, 1912, 1918. Defeated 1924. Elected 1926 by, 1929. Defeated 1935 Died 21 August 1940 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Percival Clarence Best (1873-1943): Elected 1928. Defeated 1931. Elected 1935 -------------------------------------------------------------------- PEMBROKE ==================================================================== Nominations 15 April 1935 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- James MURDOCH * Unopposed -------------------------------------------------------------------- James Murdoch (1886-1935): Elected 1925 by, 1929, 1935 Died 27 October 1935: see by-election -------------------------------------------------------------------- PEMBROKE ==================================================================== Following the death of James Murdoch -------------------------------------------------------------------- Nominations 5 December, polling 17 December 1935 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 2,013 Votes cast: 1,682 83.6 Informal votes: 15 00.9 Formal votes: 1,667 99.1 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Archibald C Blacklow 575 34.5 John Dunbabin 349 20.9 Herbert McKay Labor 283 17.0 John Murdoch 356 21.4 Benjamin Watkins 104 06.2 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 1,667 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Blacklow was MHR for Franklin 1931-34. See 1936 by-election. 2. Watkins was MHA for Queenstown 1906-09, for Darwin 1909-17, 1919-23, 1925-34. -------------------------------------------------------------------- 2nd count: Watkins's 104 votes distributed -------------------------------------------------------------------- Blacklow 35 33.7 610 36.6 Dunbabin 15 14.4 364 21.8 McKay 25 24.0 308 18.5 Murdoch 29 27.9 385 23.1 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 104 1,667 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 3rd count: McKay's 308 votes distributed -------------------------------------------------------------------- Blacklow 56 18.2 666 40.0 Dunbabin 89 28.9 453 27.2 Murdoch 163 52.9 548 32.9 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 308 1,667 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 4th count: Dunbabin's 453 votes distributed -------------------------------------------------------------------- Blacklow 153 34.8 819 49.5 MURDOCH 287 65.2 835 50.5 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Remaining 440 1,654 Exhausted 13 13 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 453 1,667 -------------------------------------------------------------------- John Murdoch (1882-1936): Elected 1935 by Born: 15 March 1882, Hobart Career: Farmer. Military service 1914-18. Son of James Murdoch (senior) MLC. Brother of James Murdoch (junior) MLC. Died 17 August 1936: see by-election --------------------------------------------------------------------