AuspolDB: Elections

1949 Federal Election

Electoral System	FPV
Government Type	Majority
Outgoing Government Party	Australian Labor Party
Incoming Government Party	Liberal
Government Seats	74
Nongovernment Seats	48
Majority The difference between the number of Government seats and non-government seats.	26
Date	10/12/1949
House Composition	55 Liberal 48 Australian Labor Party 19 The Nationals/Country Party 1 Independent

Candidate	Party	Electorate	Votes	Swing	Status
James Harrison	Australian Labor Party	Blaxland	19403	21.70	Incoming
Frank Davis	Liberal	Deakin	23517	0.50	Incoming
Sidney Rhodes	Australian Labor Party	Australian Capital Territory	4823	0.00	Incoming
Thomas Mcgrath	Australian Labor Party	Farrer	14853	-7.00	Incoming
Frederick Osborne	Liberal	Evans	21616	5.60	Incoming
William Bourke	Australian Labor Party	Fawkner	20228	2.30	Incoming
Dominic Costa	Australian Labor Party	Banks	24537	-3.80	Incoming
Charles Morgan	Australian Labor Party	Reid	24607	9.80	Incoming
Cecil Robinson	Australian Labor Party	Paterson	14089	-7.80	Incoming
Joseph Fitzgerald	Australian Labor Party	Phillip	19455	-7.80	Incoming
David Drummond	The Nationals/Country Party	New England	16159	0.00	Incoming
William Jack	Liberal	North Sydney	19650	3.30	Incoming
Roger Dean	Liberal	Robertson	21617	16.20	Incoming
Roy Wheeler	Liberal	Mitchell	23274	17.00	Incoming
Jim Eggins	The Nationals/Country Party	Lyne	10212	0.00	Incoming
Jeff Bate	Liberal	Macarthur	25184	16.60	Incoming
Alan Manning	Australian Labor Party	Lawson	15969	-3.90	Incoming
William Mcmahon	Liberal	Lowe	20489	3.80	Incoming
Gordon Anderson	Australian Labor Party	Kingsford Smith	18573	-4.30	Incoming
Athol Townley	Liberal	Denison	16431	10.90	Incoming
Charles Anderson	The Nationals/Country Party	Hume	18871	18.80	Incoming
Bruce Kekwick	Liberal	Bass	15686	6.80	Incoming
William Wentworth	Liberal	Mackellar	25678	7.20	Incoming
Hugh Roberton	The Nationals/Country Party	Riverina	19904	18.00	Incoming
Hubert Opperman	Liberal	Corio	20018	7.40	Incoming
Kevin Byrne	Australian Labor Party	Moore	12282	-7.00	Incoming
Edward Peters	Australian Labor Party	Burke	24362	11.10	Incoming
Alan Bird	Australian Labor Party	Batman	22662	4.30	Incoming
Thomas Grigg	Liberal	Bendigo	19268	24.20	Incoming
Daniel Minogue	Australian Labor Party	West Sydney	17732	-18.20	Incoming
Alan Pittard	Liberal	Ballaarat	19851	3.10	Incoming
Keith Wilson	Liberal	Sturt	21157	7.20	Incoming
Daniel Curtin	Australian Labor Party	Watson	19515	-5.90	Incoming
Bruce Graham	Liberal	St George	19987	17.20	Incoming
Wilfrid S Kent Hughes	Liberal	Chisholm	26628	4.10	Incoming
Richard Casey	Liberal	La Trobe	23645	4.10	Incoming
Frank Timson	Liberal	Higinbotham	22832	1.20	Incoming
Paul Hasluck	Liberal	Curtin	24857	15.70	Incoming
Charles Russell	The Nationals/Country Party	Maranoa	18652	6.30	Incoming
Alan Hulme	Liberal	Petrie	23803	14.60	Incoming
John Mcleay	Liberal	Boothby	24897	9.30	Incoming
Alexander Downer	Liberal	Angas	23987	8.90	Incoming
Malcolm Mccolm	Liberal	Bowman	20090	6.10	Incoming
Reginald Swartz	Liberal	Darling Downs	21261	0.00	Incoming
John Cremean	Australian Labor Party	Hoddle	28351	1.30	Incoming
Charles Edmondson	Australian Labor Party	Indi	13626	1.90	Incoming
John Mullens	Australian Labor Party	Gellibrand	20519	-22.50	Incoming
Thomas Treloar	The Nationals/Country Party	Gwydir	20018	17.40	Incoming
Billy Davies	Australian Labor Party	Cunningham	22795	3.00	Incoming
John Cramer	Liberal	Bennelong	23568	8.20	Incoming
Thomas Andrews	Australian Labor Party	Darebin	24719	4.10	Incoming
William Grayden	Liberal	Swan	22821	11.10	Incoming
William Haworth	Liberal	Isaacs	21260	1.70	Incoming
John Nelson	Australian Labor Party	Northern Territory	2303	21.90	Incoming
Charles Griffiths	Australian Labor Party	Shortland	21921	-12.80	Incoming
George Pearce	Liberal	Capricornia	16949	-0.10	Incoming
Adam Keltie	Australian Labor Party	McMillan	14263	-3.60	Incoming
Douglas Berry	Liberal	Griffith	18381	1.30	Incoming
Herbert Handby	Liberal	Kingston	23713	9.30	Incoming
Thomas Gilmore	The Nationals/Country Party	Leichhardt	16291	8.00	Incoming
William Bryson	Australian Labor Party	Wills	18918	0.70	Incoming
Bruce Wight	Liberal	Lilley	22488	15.20	Incoming
William Lawrence	Liberal	Wimmera	13761	17.50	Incoming
Donald Cameron	Liberal	Oxley	14895	8.90	Incoming
Stan Keon	Australian Labor Party	Yarra	23211	-1.80	Incoming
Nigel Drury	Liberal	Ryan	24917	17.30	Incoming
Clyde Cameron	Australian Labor Party	Hindmarsh	29260	2.80	Incoming
Thomas Sheehy	Australian Labor Party	Kingston	22233	-7.60	Outgoing
Claude Barnard	Australian Labor Party	Bass	15312	-6.80	Outgoing
William Scully	Australian Labor Party	Gwydir	16282	-3.50	Outgoing
James Hadley	Australian Labor Party	Lilley	15368	-4.20	Outgoing
William Conelan	Australian Labor Party	Griffith	16464	-3.30	Outgoing
Adair Blain	Independent	Northern Territory	1932	-5.20	Outgoing
Doris Blackburn	Independent	Wills	8801	0.00	Outgoing
John Dedman	Australian Labor Party	Corio	19783	-6.20	Outgoing
Max Falstein	Independent	Watson	3656	0.00	Outgoing
Thomas Williams	Australian Labor Party	Robertson	18236	-6.90	Outgoing
Joseph Langtry	Australian Labor Party	Riverina	16880	-0.50	Outgoing
Arthur Fuller	Australian Labor Party	Hume	18104	-4.20	Outgoing
Jack Lang	Lang Labor	Blaxland	9752	-15.00	Outgoing

Name	Jurisdiction	Type
Adelaide	SA	Division
Angas	SA	Division
Australian Capital Territory	ACT	Division
Balaclava	VIC	Division
Ballaarat	VIC	Division
Banks	NSW	Division
Barker	SA	Division
Barton	NSW	Division
Bass	TAS	Division
Batman	VIC	Division
Bendigo	VIC	Division
Bennelong	NSW	Division
Blaxland	NSW	Division
Boothby	SA	Division
Bowman	QLD	Division
Bradfield	NSW	Division
Brisbane	QLD	Division
Burke	VIC	Division
Calare	NSW	Division
Canning	WA	Division
Capricornia	QLD	Division
Chisholm	VIC	Division
Cook	NSW	Division
Corangamite	VIC	Division
Corio	VIC	Division
Cowper	NSW	Division
Cunningham	NSW	Division
Curtin	WA	Division
Dalley	NSW	Division
Darebin	VIC	Division
Darling	NSW	Division
Darling Downs	QLD	Division
Darwin	TAS	Division
Dawson	QLD	Division
Deakin	VIC	Division
Denison	TAS	Division
East Sydney	NSW	Division
Eden-Monaro	NSW	Division
Evans	NSW	Division
Farrer	NSW	Division
Fawkner	VIC	Division
Fisher	QLD	Division
Flinders	VIC	Division
Forrest	WA	Division
Franklin	TAS	Division
Fremantle	WA	Division
Gellibrand	VIC	Division
Gippsland	VIC	Division
Grayndler	NSW	Division
Grey	SA	Division
Griffith	QLD	Division
Gwydir	NSW	Division
Henty	VIC	Division
Herbert	QLD	Division
Higgins	VIC	Division
Higinbotham	VIC	Division
Hindmarsh	SA	Division
Hoddle	VIC	Division
Hume	NSW	Division
Hunter	NSW	Division
Indi	VIC	Division
Isaacs	VIC	Division
Kalgoorlie	WA	Division
Kennedy	QLD	Division
Kingsford Smith	NSW	Division
Kingston	SA	Division
Kooyong	VIC	Division
La Trobe	VIC	Division
Lalor	VIC	Division
Lang	NSW	Division
Lawson	NSW	Division
Leichhardt	QLD	Division
Lilley	QLD	Division
Lowe	NSW	Division
Lyne	NSW	Division
Macarthur	NSW	Division
Mackellar	NSW	Division
Macquarie	NSW	Division
Mallee	VIC	Division
Maranoa	QLD	Division
Maribyrnong	VIC	Division
Martin	NSW	Division
McMillan	VIC	Division
McPherson	QLD	Division
Melbourne	VIC	Division
Melbourne Ports	VIC	Division
Mitchell	NSW	Division
Moore	WA	Division
Moreton	QLD	Division
Murray	VIC	Division
New England	NSW	Division
Newcastle	NSW	Division
North Sydney	NSW	Division
Northern Territory	NT	Division
Oxley	QLD	Division
Parkes	NSW	Division
Parramatta	NSW	Division
Paterson	NSW	Division
Perth	WA	Division
Petrie	QLD	Division
Phillip	NSW	Division
Port Adelaide	SA	Division
Reid	NSW	Division
Richmond	NSW	Division
Riverina	NSW	Division
Robertson	NSW	Division
Ryan	QLD	Division
Shortland	NSW	Division
St George	NSW	Division
Sturt	SA	Division
Swan	WA	Division
Wakefield	SA	Division
Wannon	VIC	Division
Warringah	NSW	Division
Watson	NSW	Division
Wentworth	NSW	Division
Werriwa	NSW	Division
West Sydney	NSW	Division
Wide Bay	QLD	Division
Wills	VIC	Division
Wilmot	TAS	Division
Wimmera	VIC	Division
Yarra	VIC	Division

Candidate	Party	State	Votes	Elected
William Spooner	Liberal	NSW	813246	Yes (1)
Albert Reid	The Nationals/Country Party	NSW	12940	Yes (3)
John Mccallum	Liberal	NSW	8346	Yes (5)
John Tate	Liberal	NSW	6835	Yes (7)
Alexander Huie	Freedom Party	NSW	7098	No
John Owen	Freedom Party	NSW	1339	No
Lionel Willis	Freedom Party	NSW	1482	No
John Armstrong	Australian Labor Party	NSW	681817	Yes (2)
Donald Grant	Australian Labor Party	NSW	7372	Yes (4)
Stanley Amour	Australian Labor Party	NSW	6225	Yes (6)
Patrick Grace	Australian Labor Party	NSW	17708	No
Edgar Ross	Communist	NSW	23866	No
Adam Ogston	Communist	NSW	1580	No
Joseph Bailes	Communist	NSW	349	No
Freda Brown	Communist	NSW	1882	No
George Mcdonald	Fair Deal Party	NSW	3679	No
Clem Turnbull	Fair Deal Party	NSW	801	No
Ronald Sarina	Protestant People`s Party	NSW	16239	No
Jonno Hodgson	Protestant People`s Party	NSW	702	No
Peter Pollack	People`s Social Justice Party	NSW	1119	No
George Jameson	People`s Social Justice Party	NSW	483	No
Frederick Roberts	Independent	NSW	7930	No
Edward Harding	Independent	NSW	2958	No
Ralph Gibson	Communist	VIC	37398	No
Edward Laurie	Communist	VIC	1800	No
Thelma Lees	Communist	VIC	980	No
Leslie Sampson	Communist	VIC	1298	No
Gordon Stead	Protestant People`s Party	VIC	6167	No
Mervyn Ray	Protestant People`s Party	VIC	568	No
Don Cameron	Australian Labor Party	VIC	523303	Yes (2)
John Devlin	Australian Labor Party	VIC	3174	Yes (4)
James Sheehan	Australian Labor Party	VIC	2675	Yes (6)
R Arthur Clarey	Australian Labor Party	VIC	4228	No
John Spicer	Liberal	VIC	561903	Yes (1)
George Rankin	The Nationals/Country Party	VIC	7825	Yes (3)
John Gorton	Liberal	VIC	1510	Yes (5)
Ivy Wedgwood	Liberal	VIC	3385	Yes (7)
John Atkinson	Henry George Justice Party	VIC	6197	No
Leslie Bawden	Henry George Justice Party	VIC	634	No
Eileen Serpell	Henry George Justice Party	VIC	919	No
Charles Webber	Independent	VIC	1786	No
John Dale	Independent	VIC	2294	No
Edmund Evans	Independent	VIC	323	No
Ada Bromham	Independent	VIC	4886	No
Benjamin Courtice	Australian Labor Party	QLD	255478	Yes (2)
Archibald Benn	Australian Labor Party	QLD	2109	Yes (4)
Gordon Brown	Australian Labor Party	QLD	5339	Yes (6)
Robert Elliott	Australian Labor Party	QLD	3162	No
Martin Hanson	Australian Labor Party	QLD	1598	No
John Quinlan	Australian Labor Party	QLD	2382	No
Edmund Maher	The Nationals/Country Party	QLD	310816	Yes (1)
Ian Wood	Liberal	QLD	7125	Yes (3)
Roy Kendall	Liberal	QLD	1412	Yes (5)
Wilfred Simmonds	Liberal	QLD	3137	Yes (7)
Max Julius	Communist	QLD	8967	No
Alexander Macdonald	Communist	QLD	744	No
Gwendoline Phelan	Communist	QLD	488	No
Herbert Field	Communist	QLD	385	No
James Fowler	Protestant People`s Party	QLD	5139	No
Arthur Sainsbury	Protestant People`s Party	QLD	855	No
James Julin	Independent	QLD	2610	No
Richard Nash	Australian Labor Party	WA	112438	Yes (1)
James Fraser	Australian Labor Party	WA	5191	Yes (3)
Donald Willesee	Australian Labor Party	WA	3498	Yes (6)
Robert Clothier	Australian Labor Party	WA	3940	No
Alexander Jolly	Communist	WA	3988	No
Kevin Healy	Communist	WA	480	No
Marjorie Williams	Communist	WA	437	No
Agnes Robertson	Liberal	WA	109685	Yes (2)
Edmund Piesse	The Nationals/Country Party	WA	12197	Yes (4)
Victor Vincent	Liberal	WA	6133	Yes (5)
Malcolm Scott	Liberal	WA	1751	Yes (7)
Hubert Malcolm	Liberal	WA	3603	No
Robert Salter	Independent British Israel	WA	1274	No
William Fitzgerald	Protestant People`s Party	WA	969	No
Frederick Swaine	Independent	WA	643	No
Mary Mckinlay	Independent	WA	1742	No
Carlyle Ferguson	All Parties Government League	WA	3302	No
Hector Mackay	Protestant People`s Party	SA	6246	No
James Mcnicoll	Protestant People`s Party	SA	556	No
Sidney O`Flaherty	Australian Labor Party	SA	173332	Yes (1)
Theophilus Nicholls	Australian Labor Party	SA	1656	Yes (3)
Alexander Finlay	Australian Labor Party	SA	956	Yes (5)
John Ryan	Australian Labor Party	SA	851	Yes (7)
Edward Mattner	Liberal	SA	163906	Yes (2)
George Mcleay	Liberal	SA	4108	Yes (4)
Douglas Hannaford	Liberal	SA	897	Yes (6)
Frank Chapman	Liberal	SA	743	No
Albert Smith	Independent	SA	1486	No
Charles Lloyd	Independent	SA	384	No
John Williams	Independent	SA	127	No
Charles Johnson	Ex-Servicemen and Women and Dependents	SA	658	No
Lawrence Mckenzie	Ex-Servicemen and Women and Dependents	SA	279	No
George Reval	Ex-Servicemen and Women and Dependents	SA	109	No
Alan Finger	Communist	SA	2414	No
Alfred Watt	Communist	SA	66	No
John Sendy	Communist	SA	89	No
Charles Armbruster	Independent	SA	418	No
Edmund Craig	Independent	SA	344	No
Frank Halleday	Independent	SA	1314	No
Frank Rieck	Independent	SA	137	No
Mary Smith	Independent	SA	10130	No
Edwin Yates	Independent	SA	348	No
Allan Guy	Liberal	TAS	22052	Yes (3)
Denham Henty	Liberal	TAS	9718	Yes (5)
Robert Wordsworth	Liberal	TAS	8400	Yes (6)
Reginald Wright	Liberal	TAS	31774	Yes (1)
Nicholas Mckenna	Australian Labor Party	TAS	28825	Yes (2)
William Aylett	Australian Labor Party	TAS	9345	Yes (4)
Charles Lamp	Australian Labor Party	TAS	6242	No
George Cole	Australian Labor Party	TAS	11171	Yes (7)
Howard D`Alton	Australian Labor Party	TAS	7941	No
George Walliss	Communist	TAS	533	No
William Lynch	Communist	TAS	214	No
Burford Sampson	Independent	TAS	2490	No

1949 Federal Election

Incoming/Outgoing Members

Lower House

Upper House