ELECTIONS TO THE TASMANIAN LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL ==================================================================== ELECTIONS IN 1951 ==================================================================== LAUNCESTON ==================================================================== Following the death of Dr Arthur E E Grounds -------------------------------------------------------------------- Nominations 30 August, polling 29 September 1951 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 2,029 Votes cast: 1,320 46.7 Informal votes: 17 01.3 Formal votes: 1,303 98.7 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Lucy M GROUNDS 674 51.7 Sir Claude E W James 322 24.7 Eric Stone 307 23.6 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 1,303 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Grounds was a Labor Party member but not an endorsed Labor candidate. 2. James was MHA for Bass 1925-37, Tas Agent-General, London, 1937-50. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Lucy Margaret Grounds (1908-87): Elected 1951 by Born: 10 September 1908, Glenorchy Career: Teacher. Military service World War II. Widow of Dr Alfred E E Grounds. --------------------------------------------------------------------- MONMOUTH ==================================================================== Nominations 18 April, polling 12 May 1951 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 1,245 Votes cast: 1,010 83.8 Informal votes: 7 00.7 Formal votes: 1,003 99.3 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Geoffrey A H GREEN * 879 87.6 Cyril E Page 124 12.4 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 1,003 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Green was MLC for Cambridge 1946-51. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Geoffrey Arthur Hewett Green (1901-59): Elected 1946, 1951 -------------------------------------------------------------------- NEWDEGATE ==================================================================== Nominations 18 April, polling 12 May 1951 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 4,606 Votes cast: 3,137 68.1 Informal votes: 27 00.9 Formal votes: 3,110 99.1 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Edward R Cullen Labor 316 10.2 George H Gray 1,024 32.9 Dennis G Lonergan * 941 30.3 John Nolan Labor 829 26.7 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 3,110 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Gray was MHA for Franklin 1946-50. 2. Lonergan was MLC for Hobart 1945-51. When the three Hobart seats were abolished in 1946, he was "deemed" to be MLC for Newdegate. -------------------------------------------------------------------- 2nd count: Cullen's 316 votes distributed -------------------------------------------------------------------- Gray 87 27.5 1,111 35.7 Lonergan * 47 14.9 988 31.8 Nolan 182 57.6 1,011 32.5 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 316 3,110 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 3rd count: Lonergan's 988 votes distributed -------------------------------------------------------------------- GRAY 780 78.9 1,891 60.8 Nolan 208 21.1 1,219 39.2 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 988 3,110 -------------------------------------------------------------------- > Dennis Gannon Lonergan (1906-65): Elected 1945. Defeated 1951 Died 15 September 1965 > George Herbert Gray (1899-1984): Elected 1946, 1948. Defeated 1950. Elected 1951 -------------------------------------------------------------------- RUSSELL ==================================================================== Nominations 18 April 1951 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Arthur B FENTON * Unopposed -------------------------------------------------------------------- Arthur Benjamin Fenton (1882-1962): Elected 1933, 1939, 1945, 1951 Fenton retired at the 1957 election. Died 13 June 1962 --------------------------------------------------------------------