ELECTIONS TO THE TASMANIAN LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL ==================================================================== ELECTIONS IN 1938 ==================================================================== BUCKINGHAM ==================================================================== Nominations 13 April, polling 3 May 1938 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 6,448 Votes cast: 5,347 82.9 Informal votes: 65 01.2 Formal votes: 5,282 98.8 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- John H Brown Labor 1,654 31.3 Andrew D Cooper 1,242 23.5 Thomas Murdoch * 2,386 45.2 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 5,282 -------------------------------------------------------------------- For Brown, lee Legislative Assembly, Franklin 1948 countback. -------------------------------------------------------------------- 2nd count: Cooper's 1,242 votes distributed -------------------------------------------------------------------- Brown 553 44.5 2,207 41.8 MURDOCH * 689 55.5 3,075 59.2 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 1,242 5,282 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Thomas Murdoch (1868-1946): Elected 1927 by, 1932, 1938 -------------------------------------------------------------------- President of the Legislative Council -------------------------------------------------------------------- HOBART ==================================================================== Following the death of Hon William B Propsting -------------------------------------------------------------------- Nominations 24 January, polling 15 February 1938 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 6,710 Votes cast: 5,911 88.1 Informal votes: 63 01.1 Formal votes: 5,848 98.9 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Thomas W Kimber 686 11.7 Nicholas E McKenna Labor 2,373 40.6 William H Strutt 1,274 21.8 Ernest W Turner 1,275 21.8 Russell Young 240 04.1 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 5,848 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. McKenna was a Senator for Tasmania 1944-68. 2. Turner was MHA for Denison 1931-37, 1941. -------------------------------------------------------------------- 2nd count: Young's 240 votes distributed -------------------------------------------------------------------- Kimber 20 08.3 706 12.1 McKenna 20 08.3 2,393 40.9 Strutt 80 33.3 1,354 23.2 Turner 120 50.0 1,395 23.9 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 240 5,848 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 3rd count: Kimber's 706 votes distributed -------------------------------------------------------------------- McKenna 227 32.2 2,620 44.8 Strutt 305 43.2 1,659 28.4 Turner 174 24.6 1,569 26.8 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 706 5,848 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 4th count: Turner's 1,569 votes distributed -------------------------------------------------------------------- McKenna 125 08.1 2,745 47.1 STRUTT 1,425 91.9 3,084 52.9 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Remaining 1,550 5,829 Exhausted 19 19 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 1,569 5,848 -------------------------------------------------------------------- William Henry Strutt (1878-1948): Elected 1938 by Born: 6 Marxh 1878, Victoria career: To Tas 1879. Shipping agent and merchant. Father of Horace W Strutt MHA. -------------------------------------------------------------------- SOUTH ESK ==================================================================== Nominations 13 April 1938 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Hon Alan L WARDLAW * Unopposed -------------------------------------------------------------------- Alan Lindsay Wardlaw (1887-1938): Elected 1920, 1926, 1932, 1938 Died 24 December 1948: see by-election --------------------------------------------------------------------