ELECTIONS TO THE TASMANIAN LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL ==================================================================== ELECTIONS IN 1946 ==================================================================== CAMBRIDGE ==================================================================== Following the death od Joseph Darling -------------------------------------------------------------------- Nominations 11 February, polling 23 February 1946 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 1,823 Votes cast: 1,470 80.6 Informal votes: 8 00.5 Formal votes: 1,462 99.5 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Geoffrey H GREEN 733 50.1 Robert C Thompson 729 49.9 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 1,462 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Geoffrey Hewett Green (1901-59): Elected 1946 by Born: 15 March 1901, Launceston Career: Farmer. Military service 1939-45. Oatlands Municipal Council. Hewett contested Monmouth at the 1952 election. -------------------------------------------------------------------- GORDON ==================================================================== Nominations 9 April 1946 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Hon James McDONALD * Labor Unopposed -------------------------------------------------------------------- James McDonald (1877-1947): Elected 1916. Defeated 1922. Elected 1928, 1934, 1940, 1946 Died 17 October 1947: see by-election -------------------------------------------------------------------- Attorney-General to 9 December 1946 Minister for Mines 10 December 1946 to 17 October 1947 -------------------------------------------------------------------- HOBART ==================================================================== Following the death of Charles J Eady -------------------------------------------------------------------- Nominations 9 April, polling 7 May 1946 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 7,781 Votes cast: 5,963 76.6 Informal votes: 101 01.7 Formal votes: 5,862 98.3 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Ernest A Brooke 348 05.9 George H Gray 1,596 27.2 Russell O Lyons 1,928 32.9 John Soundy 1,990 33.9 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 5,862 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. For Gray, see House of assembly, Franklin 1946 2. Soundy was MHA for Denison 1925-46. -------------------------------------------------------------------- 2nd count: Brooke's 348 votes distributed -------------------------------------------------------------------- Gray 230 66.1 1,826 31.1 Lyons 39 11.2 1,967 33.6 Soundy 79 22.7 2,069 35.3 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 348 5,862 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 3rd count: Gray's 1,826 votes distributed -------------------------------------------------------------------- Lyons 944 51.7 2,911 49.7 SOUNDY 882 48.3 2,951 50.3 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 1,826 5,862 -------------------------------------------------------------------- John Soundy (1878-1960): Elected 1925, 1928, 1931, 1934, 1937, 1941 Resigned 1946. Elected 1946 Soundy retired at the 1952 election. Died 25 October 1960 -------------------------------------------------------------------- LAUNCESTON ==================================================================== Nominations 9 April, polling 7 May 1946 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 6,192 Votes cast: 4,667 75.4 Informal votes: 108 02.3 Formal votes: 4,559 97.7 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Richard K GREEN 2,756 60.5 George J McElwee * Labor 1,803 39.4 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 4,559 -------------------------------------------------------------------- > George Johnston McElwee (1879-?): Elected 1940. Defeated 1946. Date of death unknown > Richard Kenneth Green (1907-61): Elected 1946 Born: 3 December 1907, Burnie Career: Educated University of Tasmania. Lawyer. Military service World War II. Resigned 13 May 1950: see by-election Later career: Supreme Court judge Died 19 March 1961 --------------------------------------------------------------------