ELECTIONS TO THE TASMANIAN LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL ==================================================================== ELECTIONS IN 1953 ==================================================================== MEANDER ==================================================================== Nominations 10 April, polling 2 May 1953 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 3,070 Votes cast: 2,295 Informal votes: 11 00.5 Formal votes: 2,284 99.5 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Frederick Kelso Labor 576 25.2 A Elliot D LILLICO * 1,708 74.8 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 2,284 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Alexander Elliot Davidson Lillico (1905-94): Elected 1943 by, 1947, 1953 Resigned 6 December 1958 Later career: Senator for Tasmania 1959-74. Died November 1994 -------------------------------------------------------------------- PEMBROKE ==================================================================== Nominations 10 April, polling 2 May 1953 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 4,137 Votes cast: 3,657 88.4 Informal votes: 34 00.9 Formal votes: 3,623 99.1 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Kenneth E Austin 630 17.4 James L Berry 1,183 32.7 Hallam R Blacklow 572 15.8 William Dunbabin 1,238 34.2 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 3,623 -------------------------------------------------------------------- For Austin, see House of Assembly, Denison 1964. 2nd count: Blacklow's 572 votes distributed -------------------------------------------------------------------- Austin 137 24.0 767 21.2 Berry 77 13.5 1,260 34.8 Dunbabin 358 62.6 1,596 44.9 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 572 3,623 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 3rd count: Austin's 767 votes distributed -------------------------------------------------------------------- Berry 327 42.6 1,587 43.8 DUNBABIN 440 57.4 2,036 56.2 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 767 3,623 -------------------------------------------------------------------- William Dunbabin (1894-1975): Elected 1953 Born: 26 October 1894, Bream Creek Career: Farmer. Military service World Wars I and II. Sorell Municipal Council. -------------------------------------------------------------------- QUEENBOROUGH ==================================================================== Nominations 10 April, polling 2 May 1953 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 4,267 Votes cast: 3,399 79.7 Informal votes: 50 01.5 Formal votes: 3,349 98.5 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Hon Henry S BAKER * 1,790 53.4 Mabel Miller 1,559 46.6 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 3,349 -------------------------------------------------------------------- For Miller, see House of Assembly, Denison 1955 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Henry Seymour Baker (1890-1968): Elected 1948 by, 1953 -------------------------------------------------------------------- WEST DEVON ==================================================================== Nominations 10 April, polling 2 May 1953 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 3,645 Votes cast: 3,110 85.3 Informal votes: 35 01.1 Formal votes: 3,075 98.9 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Albert P Best 293 09.5 Harold R Bryan 901 29.3 Walter J T Davis 1,267 41.2 Leonard J Leary 475 15.4 Frederic J W Swann 139 04.5 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 3,075 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 2nd count: Swann's 139 votes distributed -------------------------------------------------------------------- Best 25 18.0 318 10.3 Bryan 20 14.4 921 30.0 Davis 57 41.0 1,324 43.1 Leary 37 26.6 512 16.7 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 139 3,075 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 3rd count: Best's 318 votes distributed -------------------------------------------------------------------- Bryan 138 43.4 1,059 34.4 Davis 95 29.9 1,419 46.1 Leary 85 26.7 597 19.4 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 318 3,075 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 4th count: Leary's 597 votes distributed -------------------------------------------------------------------- Bryan 251 42.5 1,310 42.7 DAVIS 340 57.5 1,759 57.3 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Remaining 591 3,069 Exhausted 6 6 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 597 3,075 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Walter John Torley Davis (1915-71): Elected 1953 Born: 18 October 1915, Melbourne Career: Butcher. Military service World War II. Company manager. President Burnie Chamber of Commerce. --------------------------------------------------------------------