ELECTIONS TO THE TASMANIAN LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL ==================================================================== ELECTIONS IN 1979 ==================================================================== DERWENT ==================================================================== Nominations 1 May, polling 26 May 1979 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 7,316 Votes cast: 6,615 90.4 Informal votes: 122 01.8 Formal votes: 6,493 98.2 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert Holderness-Rodham 1,251 19.3 Joseph Dixon * 1,964 30.2 Charles BATT Labor 3,278 50.5 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 6,493 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Batt was MHA for Denison 1974-76. -------------------------------------------------------------------- > Joseph Henry Dixon (1911-2002): Elected 1955. Defeated 1961. Elected 1967, 1973. Defeated 1979 Died 3 August 2002 > Charles Leo Batt (1921-2007): Elected 1974. Defeated 1964. Elected 1979 -------------------------------------------------------------------- TAMAR ==================================================================== Nominations 1 May, polling 26 May 1979 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 10,776 Total votes cast: 9,588 Informal votes: 195 02.0 Formal votes: 9,393 98.0 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Trevor Roach 1,830 19.5 Reginald Hope 3,724 39.6 Richard Burgess 868 09.0 Peter Thompson 2,971 31.6 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 9,393 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 2nd count: Burgess's 868 votes distributed -------------------------------------------------------------------- Roach 169 19.5 1,999 21.3 Hope 382 44.0 4,106 43.7 Thompson 317 36.5 3,288 35.0 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 868 9,393 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 3rd count: Roach's 1,999 votes distributed -------------------------------------------------------------------- HOPE 983 49.2 5,089 54.2 Thompson 1,016 50.8 4,304 45.8 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 1,999 9,393 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Reginald Thomas Hope (1927-2010): Elected 1979 Born: 12 June 1927, Sheffield Hope was deemed to be MLC for Meande from 1981. Jeffrey Coates was deemed to be MLC for Tamar from 1981. -------------------------------------------------------------------- WESTMORLAND ==================================================================== Nominations 1 May, polling 26 May 1979 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 12,904 Total votes cast: 11,269 87.3 Informal votes: 432 03.8 Formal votes: 10,837 96.2 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Tim Thorne 4,005 37.0 Oliver H GREGORY * 6,248 57.7 John Richie 584 05.4 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 10,837 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Oliver Harold Gregory (1917-2001): Elected 1959 by, 1961, 1967, 1973, 1979 Gregory retired at the 1985 election. Died 16 June 2001 --------------------------------------------------------------------