ELECTIONS TO THE TASMANIAN LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL ==================================================================== ELECTIONS IN 1985 ==================================================================== DERWENT ==================================================================== Nominations 26 April, polling 25 May 1985 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 14,018 Votes cast: 11,257 80.3 Informal votes: 433 03.9 Formal votes: 10,824 96.1 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Charles BATT * Labor 8,729 80.6 Athol Hookway 2,095 19.4 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 10,824 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Charles Leo Batt (1921-2007): Elected 1974. Defeated 1964. Elected 1979, 1985 -------------------------------------------------------------------- MEANDER ==================================================================== Nominations 26 April, polling 25 May 1985 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 12,804 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Reginald HOPE * Unopposed -------------------------------------------------------------------- Reginald Thomas Hope (1927-2010): Elected 1979, 1985 Hope was MLC for Tamar 1979-82. -------------------------------------------------------------------- WESTMORLAND ==================================================================== Nominations 26 April, polling 25 May 1985 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 14,122 Total votes cast: 12,332 87.3 Informal votes: 329 02.7 Formal votes: 12,003 97.3 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Graeme Beams 1,506 12.5 Geoff Carr 2,115 17.6 Darryl Chellis 4,297 35.8 Basil Fitch 1,404 11.7 Pat Richardson 2,681 22.3 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 12,003 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 2nd count: Fitch's 1,404 votes distributed -------------------------------------------------------------------- Beams 274 19.5 1,780 14.8 Carr 333 23.7 2,448 20.4 Chellis 375 26.7 4,672 38.9 Richardson 422 30.1 3,103 25.9 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 1,404 12,003 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 3rd count: Beams's 1,780 votes distributed -------------------------------------------------------------------- Carr 383 21.5 2,831 23.6 Chellis 929 52.2 5,601 46.7 Richardson 468 26.3 3,571 29.8 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 1,780 12,003 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 4th count: Carr's 2,831 votes distributed -------------------------------------------------------------------- CHELLIS 1,259 45.6 6,860 57.5 Richardson 1,504 54.4 5,075 42.5 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Remaining 2,763 11,935 Exhausted 68 68 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 2,831 12,003 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Darryl Osmond Chellis (born 1936): Elected 1985 Born: 3 April 1936, Burnie Chellis retired at the 1991 election. --------------------------------------------------------------------