ELECTIONS TO THE TASMANIAN LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL ==================================================================== ELECTIONS IN 1970 ==================================================================== GORDON ==================================================================== Nominations 29 April, polling 23 May 1970 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 5,327 Votes cast: 4,613 86.6 Informal votes: 83 01.8 Formal votes: 4,530 98.2 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Albert J BROADBY * 2,634 58.1 Maxwell J Fitzallen 1,896 41.9 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 4,530 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Albert James Broadby (1917-2012): Elected 1968 by, 1970 -------------------------------------------------------------------- HOBART ==================================================================== Nominations 29 April, polling 23 May 1970 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 12,950 Votes cast: 10,679 82.5 Informal votes: 229 02.1 Formal votes: 10,450 97.9 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Dorothy J L Bastick 1,751 16.8 Phyllis J BENJAMIN * Labor 6,228 59.6 Hendrik Petrusma 2,471 23.6 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 10,450 -------------------------------------------------------------------- For Petrusma, see Hobart 1982. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Phyllis Jean Benjamin (1907-96): Elected 1952, 1958, 1964, 1970 Benjamin retired at the 1976 election. Died 6 April 1996 -------------------------------------------------------------------- LAUNCESTON ==================================================================== Nominations 29 April, polling 23 May 1970 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 11,105 Votes cast: 10,147 91.4 Informal votes: 165 01.6 Formal votes: 9,982 98.4 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Alan R Baird 697 07.0 Bruce H Kekwick 1,201 12.0 Frank B King 2,997 30.0 Clarence C Pryor 2,191 21.9 Raymond W Shipp * 2,896 29.0 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 9,982 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Kekwick was MHR for Bass 1949-54. -------------------------------------------------------------------- 2nd count: Baird's 697 votes distributed -------------------------------------------------------------------- Kekwick 209 30.0 1,410 14.1 King 145 20.8 3,142 31.5 Pryor 141 20.2 2,332 23.4 Shipp * 202 29.0 3,098 31.0 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 697 9,982 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 3rd count: Kekwick's 1,410 votes distributed -------------------------------------------------------------------- King 604 42.8 3,746 37.5 Pryor 437 31.0 2,769 27.7 Shipp * 369 26.2 3,467 34.7 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 1,410 9,982 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 4th count: Pryor's 2,769 votes distributed -------------------------------------------------------------------- King 1,077 40.2 4,823 48.8 SHIPP * 1,601 59.8 5,068 51.2 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Remaining 2,678 9,891 Exhausted 46 46 Not distributed 45 45 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 2,769 9,982 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Raymond William Shipp (born 1925): Elected 1968 by, 1970 --------------------------------------------------------------------