ELECTIONS TO THE TASMANIAN LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL ==================================================================== ELECTIONS IN 1939 ==================================================================== CAMBRIDGE ==================================================================== Nominations 13 April, polling 2 May 1939 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 1,606 Votes cast: 1,413 88.0 Informal votes: 16 01.1 Formal votes: 1,397 98.9 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Joseph DARLING * 809 57.9 Robert C Thompson 588 42.1 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 1,397 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Joseph Darling (1870-1946): Elected 1921 by, 1927, 1933, 1939 -------------------------------------------------------------------- HOBART ==================================================================== Nominations 13 April, polling 2 May 1939 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 7,041 Votes cast: 6,278 Informal votes: 112 Formal votes: 6,166 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Hon Dr John F Gaha * Labor 2,878 46.7 William R C Jarvis 357 05.8 Thomas W Kimber 462 07.5 Ernest C Stephens 1,818 29.5 Arthur E Wadsley 651 10.6 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 6,166 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Jarvis was MHA for Hobart East 1906-09. -------------------------------------------------------------------- 2nd count: Jarvis's 357 votes distributed -------------------------------------------------------------------- Gaha * 100 28.0 2,978 48.3 Kimber 111 31.1 573 09.3 Stephens 90 25.2 1,908 30.9 Wadsley 56 15.7 707 11.5 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 357 6,166 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 3rd count: Kimber's 573 votes distributed -------------------------------------------------------------------- Gaha * 82 14.3 3,060 49.6 Stephens 374 65.3 2,282 37.0 Wadsley 117 20.4 824 13.4 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 573 6,166 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 4th count: Wadsley's 824 votes distributed -------------------------------------------------------------------- GAHA * 54 08.4 3,114 52.0 Stephens 592 91.6 2,874 48.0 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Remaining 646 5,988 Exhausted 5 5 Not distributed 173 173 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 824 6,166 -------------------------------------------------------------------- John Francis Gaha (1894-1966): Elected 1933, 1939 Resigned 10 July 1943 Later career: MHR for Denison 1943-49. MHA for Denison 1950-64 Died 18 March 1966 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Member of the Executive Council without Office to 10 July 1943 -------------------------------------------------------------------- RUSSELL ==================================================================== Nominations 13 April, polling 2 May 1939 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 3,400 Votes cast: 2,375 69.9 Informal votes: 31 01.3 Formal votes: 2,344 98.7 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Carroll A Bramich Labor 338 14.4 Arthur B FENTON * 1,362 58.1 William E Ling 102 04.4 Keith A Medwin 247 10.5 George T Wright 136 05.8 Benny Young 99 04.2 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 2,344 -------------------------------------------------------------------- For Bramich, see House of Assembly, Darwin 1946. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Arthur Benjamin Fenton (1882-1962): Elected 1933, 1939 -------------------------------------------------------------------- SOUTH ESK ==================================================================== Following the death of Alan L Wardlaw -------------------------------------------------------------------- Nominations 9 February, polling 7 March 1939 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 2,371 Total votes cast: 2,003 84.5 Informal votes: 17 00.8 Formal votes: 1,986 99.2 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Eldred F Hawkes 309 15.6 Leslie A Procter 854 43.0 Robert Wardlaw 676 34.0 Edwin D Weston 147 07.4 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 1,986 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Wardlaw was the brother of the previous member. -------------------------------------------------------------------- 2nd count: Weston's 147 votes distributed -------------------------------------------------------------------- Hawkes 30 20.4 339 17.1 Procter 61 41.5 915 46.1 Wardlaw 56 38.1 732 36.9 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 147 1,986 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 3rd count :Hawkes's 339 votes distributed -------------------------------------------------------------------- PROCTER 223 65.8 1,138 57.3 Wardlaw 116 34.2 848 42.7 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 339 1,986 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Leslie Arthur Procter (1884-1968): Elected 1939 by Born: 27 January 1884, Lefroy Career: Blacksmith, wheelwright. 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