COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA
LEGISLATIVE ELECTION OF 5 SEPTEMBER 1914
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SENATE ELECTION
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SOUTH AUSTRALIA (Six senators to be elected)
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Enrolled voters:                          257,353         +05.5
Votes cast:                               206,244   80.1   00.0
Informal votes:                             7,913   03.8  -01.9
Formal votes:                             198,331   96.2  +01.9
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Candidate                      Party        Votes   %
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Benjamin Benny                 Lib         89,568   45.2
Patrick Daley                  Lib         87,365   44.1
Robert GUTHRIE *               ALP        111,774   56.4  ELECTED 4
George Jenkins                 Lib         89,194   45.0
John NEWLAND *                 ALP        112,569   56.8  ELECTED 2
Hon James O'LOGHLIN *          ALP        112,283   56.6  ELECTED 3
William SENIOR *               ALP        109,975   55.5  ELECTED 5
John SHANNON                   Lib        190,590   96.1  ELECTED 1
George Stewart                 Lib         88,042   44.4
William STORY *                ALP        108,263   54.6  ELECTED 6
Edward Vardon                  Lib         90,364   45.6
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Total                                   1,189,987 
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1. The official return gives only the number of votes cast 
(1,189,987), not the number of voters who cast them. 
2. Percentages shown are percentages of 488,589, indicating the 
proportion of voters who supported each candidate. The percentages 
column will thus add up to 600%, since each voter cast six votes.
3. For Benny, see Senate South Australia 1919.
4. Jenkins was SA MHA for Burra Burra 1918-24, 1927-30, 1933-38, 
Newcastle 1938-56.
5. For Vardon, see Senate South Australia 1919, Appointments.
6. Senator Hon Gregor McGregor (ALP) died 13 August 1914, after the 
close of nominations, leaving the ALP with only five candidates. ALP 
voters, to cast a valid vote, thus had to vote for at least one 
Liberal candidate. The ALP how-to-vote card directed a vote for 
Shannon. This explains Shannon's extraordinarily high vote. It also 
explains how the ALP won five of six places with 46.6% of the 
vote: if one sixth of ALP votes had not been lost to Shannon the 
ALP vote would have been about 55%.
7. Guthrie, Newland, Senior and Story resigned from the ALP Caucus 
on 14 November 1916 and joined the Nationalist Party in 1917.
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Senators' terms began 5 September 1914. Newland, O'Loghlin and 
Shannon elected for a term ending 30 June 1920. Guthrie, Senior 
and Story elected for a term ending 30 June 1917
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> James Francis Guthrie (1857-1921): Elected 1903, 1910, 1914
> John Newland (1864-1932): Elected 1913, 1914
> James Vincent O'Loghlin (1852-1925): Elected 1907. Election 
declared void 1907. Elected 1913, 1914
> William Senior (1850-1926): Elected 1913, 1914
> John Wallace Shannon (1862-1926): Appointed 1912. Defeated 1913. 
Elected 1914
> William Harrison Story (1857-1924): Elected 1903, 1910, 1914
Resigned place 3 April 1917 (see Appointments)
Later career: see House of Representatives Boothby 1917.
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