ELECTIONS TO THE TASMANIAN LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL ==================================================================== ELECTIONS IN 1945 ==================================================================== CAMBRIDGE ==================================================================== Nominations 16 April, polling 8 May 1945 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 1,766 Votes cast: 1,464 82.9 Informal votes: 9 00.6 Formal votes: 1,455 99.4 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Joseph Darling * 560 38.5 Geoffrey H Green 468 32.2 Robert C Thompson 427 29.3 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 1,455 -------------------------------------------------------------------- For Green, see 1946 by-election. 2nd count: Thompson's 427 votes distributed -------------------------------------------------------------------- DARLING * 197 46.1 757 52.0 Green 230 53.9 698 48.0 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 427 1,455 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Joseph Darling (1870-1946): Elected 1921 by, 1927, 1933, 1939 Died 2 January 1946: see by-election -------------------------------------------------------------------- HOBART ==================================================================== Nominations 16 April, polling 8 May 1945 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 7,392 Votes cast: 5,509 74.5 Informal votes: 80 01.5 Formal votes: 5,429 98.5 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Samuel Crisp 1,310 24.1 Dennis G Lonergan 2,129 39.2 Arthur J Tyler * Labor 1,990 21.9 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 5,429 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 2nd count: Crisp's 1,310 votes distributed -------------------------------------------------------------------- LONERGAN 1,010 77.1 3,139 57.5 Tyler * 300 22.9 2,290 42.5 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 1,310 5,393 -------------------------------------------------------------------- > Arthur James Tyler (1883-1972): Elected 1943 by. Election void 1943. Elected 1944 by. Defeated 1945 Died 20 July 1972 > Dennis Gannon Lonergan (1906-65): Elected 1945 Born: 30 March 1906, Deloraine Career: Stockman, farm manager, baker. Lonergan contested Newdegate in 1951. -------------------------------------------------------------------- RUSSELL ==================================================================== Nominations 24 April, polling 8 May 1945 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 3,869 Votes cast: 2,684 98.8 Informal votes: 31 01.2 Formal votes: 2,653 98.8 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Arthur B FENTON * 1,865 70.3 Philip E Ward 788 29.7 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 2,653 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Arthur Benjamin Fenton (1882-1962): Elected 1933, 1939, 1945 --------------------------------------------------------------------