COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA FOURTH PARLIAMENT ==================================================================== HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ==================================================================== BY-ELECTIONS ==================================================================== BATMAN, Vic ==================================================================== Inner Melbourne: Clifton Hill, Collingwood, Delbridge, Fitzroy -------------------------------------------------------------------- 8 February 1911, following the death of Henry Beard -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1910 two-party majority: ALP over Liberal 13.6 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 31,729 Votes cast: 16,666 52.5 Informal votes: 349 02.1 Formal votes: 16,317 97.9 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- Frank BRENNAN + ALP 9,385 57.5 -06.1 Frederick O'Neill Lib 6,932 42.5 +06.1 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 16,317 07.5 06.1 to Lib -------------------------------------------------------------------- Frank Brennan (1880-1950): Elected 1911 By Born: 1880, Sedgwick, Victoria. Career: Educated Melbourne High School and University of Melbourne. Solicitor, Melbourne and Bendigo. Brother of Senator Hon Thomas Brennan. --------------------------------------------------------------------