ELECTIONS TO THE TASMANIAN LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL ==================================================================== ELECTIONS IN 1937 ==================================================================== DERWENT ==================================================================== Nominations 12 April, polling 4 May 1937 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 2,029 Votes cast: 1,552 76.5 Informal votes: 20 01.3 Formal votes: 1,532 98.7 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Rupert O SHOOBRIDGE 935 61.0 Hugh A Warner 422 27.5 Charles W W Witzerman 175 11.4 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 1,532 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Rupert Oakley Shoobridge (1883-1962): Elected 1937 Born: 25 January 1883, Hobart Career: Educated Hawkesbury Agricultural College, NSW. Farmer. New Norfolk Municipal Council. Grandson of Ebenezer Shoobridge MHA and of Hon Sir Phillip Fysh, MHA, MLC and MHR. -------------------------------------------------------------------- TAMAR ==================================================================== Nominations 12 April, polling 4 May 1937 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 2,161 Total votes cast: 1,918 88.8 Informal votes: 22 01.1 Formal votes: 1,896 98.9 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Albert E Cowie 236 12.4 Arthur T Cutts 469 24.7 Ernest W Freeland * 504 26.6 Alfred H Luck 242 12.8 William Robinson 445 23.5 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 1,896 -------------------------------------------------------------------- For Robinson, see Launceston 1942. -------------------------------------------------------------------- 2nd count: Cowie's 236 votes distributed -------------------------------------------------------------------- Cutts 64 27.1 533 28.1 Freeland * 55 23.3 559 29.5 Luck 49 20.8 291 15.3 Robinson 68 28.8 513 27.1 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 236 1,896 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 3rd count: Luck's 291 votes distributed -------------------------------------------------------------------- Cutts 126 43.3 659 34.8 Freeland * 79 27.1 638 33.6 Robinson 86 29.6 599 31.6 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 291 1,896 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 4th count: Robinson's 599 votes distributed -------------------------------------------------------------------- CUTTS 256 49.2 915 50.4 Freeland * 264 50.8 902 49.6 Remaining 520 1,817 Exhausted 79 79 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 599 1,896 -------------------------------------------------------------------- > Ernest William Freeland (1870-1940): Elected 1919, 1925, 1931. Defeated 1937 Died 22 November 1940 > Arthur Thomas Cutts (1879-1967): Elected 1937 Born: 20 March 1879, Sassafras Career: Farmer, contractor. Latrobe Municipal Council. -------------------------------------------------------------------- WESTMORLAND ==================================================================== Nominations 12 April, polling 4 May 1937 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 3,149 Total votes cast: 2,822 89.6 Informal votes: 32 01.1 Formal votes: 2,790 98.9 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Samuel H Caswell 510 18.3 John W Cheek * 1,238 44.4 Alfred J Higgins 745 26.7 Herbert T Postle 297 10.6 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 2,790 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Postle was MHA for Bass 1933-34. -------------------------------------------------------------------- 2nd count: Postle's 297 votes distributed -------------------------------------------------------------------- Caswell 84 28.3 594 21.3 Cheek * 115 38.7 1,353 48.5 Higgins 98 33.0 843 30.2 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 297 2,790 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 3rd count: Caswell's 594 votes distributed -------------------------------------------------------------------- CHEEK * 86 57.3 1,439 61.3 Higgins 64 42.7 907 39.7 Remaining 150 2,346 Not distributed 444 444 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 594 2,790 -------------------------------------------------------------------- John William Cheek (1855-1942): Elected 1907. Retired 1913. Elected 1919 by, 1925, 1931, 1937 Died 26 February 1942: see byelection --------------------------------------------------------------------