ELECTIONS TO THE TASMANIAN LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL ==================================================================== ELECTIONS IN 1973 ==================================================================== DERWENT ==================================================================== Nominations 1 May, polling 26 May 1973 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 7,241 Votes cast: 6,289 86.9 Informal votes: 144 02.3 Formal votes: 6,145 97.7 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Joseph H DIXON * 3,777 Donald K Marriott Labor 2,368 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 6,145 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Marriott was MLC for Derwent 1961-67. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Joseph Henry Dixon (1911-2002): Elected 1955. Defeated 1961. Elected 1967, 1973 -------------------------------------------------------------------- TAMAR ==================================================================== Nominations 1 May, polling 26 May 1973 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 8,293 Total votes cast: 7,394 89.2 Informal votes: 137 01.9 Formal votes: 7,257 98.1 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Richard J Burgess 1,530 21.1 Daniel Hitchcock * 3,555 49.0 P W Lawson Labor 2,172 29.9 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 7,257 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 2nd count: Burgess's 1,530 votes distributed -------------------------------------------------------------------- HITCHCOCK * 1,037 67.8 4,592 63.3 Lawson 493 32.2 2,665 36.7 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 1,530 7,257 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Daniel Hitchcock (1908-96): Elected 1960 by, 1961, 1967, 1973 -------------------------------------------------------------------- WESTMORLAND ==================================================================== Nominations 1 May, polling 26 May 1973 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 10,824 Total votes cast: 9,890 91.4 Informal votes: 283 02.9 Formal votes: 9,607 97.1 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Oliver H GREGORY * 5,944 61.8 B C Lockhart 550 05.7 Dr Myron Tripp Labor 2,660 27.7 I A Williams 453 04.7 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 9,607 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Oliver Harold Gregory (1917-2001): Elected 1959 by, 1961, 1967, 1973 --------------------------------------------------------------------