COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA LEGISLATIVE ELECTION OF 23 OCTOBER 1937 ==================================================================== HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ==================================================================== VOTING BY DIVISION ==================================================================== NORTHERN TERRITORY ==================================================================== 1934 majority: Independent over ALP 01.8 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 3,186 +32.2 Votes cast: 2,553 80.1 +01.3 Informal votes: 32 01.2 -00.7 Formal votes: 2,521 98.8 +00.7 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- Adair Blain * 963 38.2 Ronald Hughes-Jones 333 13.2 Harold Nelson 305 12.1 Robert Toupein 920 36.5 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 2,521 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Nelson was member for the Northern Territory 1922-34. 2. Blain's vote of 38.2% was a decrease of 11.6% from the 49.8% he polled in 1934. -------------------------------------------------------------------- 2nd count: Nelson's 305 votes distributed -------------------------------------------------------------------- Blain * 73 23.9 1,036 41.1 Hughes-Jones 87 28.5 420 16.7 Toupein 145 47.5 1,065 42.2 -------------------------------------------------------------------- > 305 2,521 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 3rd count: Hughes-Jones's 420 votes distributed -------------------------------------------------------------------- BLAIN * 274 65.2 1,310 52.0 Toupein 146 34.8 1,211 48.0 -------------------------------------------------------------------- > 420 2,521 02.0 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Adair MacAlister Blain (1894-1983): Elected 1934, 1937 -------------------------------------------------------------------- The member for the Northern Territory could vote only on matters affecting the Territory. --------------------------------------------------------------------