ELECTIONS TO THE TASMANIAN LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL ==================================================================== ELECTIONS IN 1949 ==================================================================== DERWENT ==================================================================== Nominations 6 April, polling 14 May 1949 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 3,337 Votes cast: 2,752 82.5 Informal votes: 23 00.8 Formal votes: 2,729 99.2 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Richard E Allwright 216 07.9 Douglas A Cashion 534 19.6 Andrew W Graham 682 25.0 Sir Rupert O Shoobridge * 1,297 47.5 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 2,729 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Cashion was MHA for Wilmot 1949-72. 2nd count: Allwright's 216 votes distributed -------------------------------------------------------------------- Cashion 65 30.1 599 21.9 Graham 16 07.4 698 25.6 SHOOBRIDGE * 135 62.5 1,432 52.5 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 216 2,729 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Rupert Oakley Shoobridge (1883-1962): Elected 1937, 1943, 1949 -------------------------------------------------------------------- President of the Legislative Council to 13 May 1955 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Shoobridge retired at the 1955 election. Died 5 November 1962 TAMAR ==================================================================== Nominations 6 April, polling 14 May 1949 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 2,171 Total votes cast: 1,828 84.2 Informal votes: 26 01.4 Formal votes: 1,802 98.6 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Arthur T Cutts * 778 43.2 George I A Hodson 617 34.2 Val Perkins 407 22.6 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 1,802 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 2nd count: Perkins's 407 votes distributed -------------------------------------------------------------------- Cutts * 151 37.1 929 51.6 Hodson 256 62.9 873 48.4 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 407 1,802 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Arthur Thomas Cutts (1879-1967): Elected 1937, 1943, 1949 Cutts retired at the 1955 election. Died 12 September 1967 -------------------------------------------------------------------- WESTMORLAND ==================================================================== Nominations 6 April, polling 14 May 1949 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 4,555 Total votes cast: 3,699 81.2 Informal votes: 52 01.4 Formal votes: 3,647 98.6 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Alma E Carswell 241 06.6 George L Flowers * 1,719 47.1 Stanley G Green 1,687 46.3 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 3,647 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 2nd count: Carswell's 241 votes distributed -------------------------------------------------------------------- FLOWERS * 136 56.4 1,855 50.9 Green 105 43.6 1,792 49.1 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 241 3,647 -------------------------------------------------------------------- George Lenthorn Flowers (1879-1958): Elected 1942 by, 1943, 1949 --------------------------------------------------------------------