ELECTIONS FOR THE DIVISION OF BURKE, VICTORIA ==================================================================== ELECTION OF 10 DECEMBER 1949 ==================================================================== Inner Melbourne: Blyth, Brunswick, Edward, Fitzroy North -------------------------------------------------------------------- New seat: 1946 notional two-party majority: ALP over Liberal 20.1 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 41,995 Votes cast: 40,217 95.8 Informal votes: 999 02.5 Formal votes: 39,218 97.5 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- Henry Hodges 4,720 12.0 Edward PETERS + ALP 24,362 62.1 +11.1 Alfred Wall Lib 9,865 25.2 +02.4 James Whitworth 271 00.7 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 39,218 19.4 e 00.7 to Lib -------------------------------------------------------------------- Edward William Peters (1897-1980): Elected 1949 Born: 12 June 1897, Melbourne. Career: Educated Catholic schools. Clerk, Victorian Public Service. President Victorian branch, Clerks Union. President Victorian ALP 1934. -------------------------------------------------------------------- ELECTION OF 28 APRIL 1951 ==================================================================== Inner Melbourne: Blyth, Brunswick, Edward, Fitzroy North -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1949 two-party majority: ALP over Liberal 19.4 e -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 40,318 -04.0 Votes cast: 38,729 96.1 +00.3 Informal votes: 861 02.2 -00.3 Formal votes: 37,868 07.8 +00.3 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- Edward PETERS * ALP 27,422 72.4 +10.3 Alfred Wall Lib 10,446 27.6 +02.4 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 37,868 22.4 03.0 to ALP -------------------------------------------------------------------- Edward William Peters (1897-1980): Elected 1949, 1951 -------------------------------------------------------------------- ELECTION OF 29 MAY 1954 ==================================================================== Inner Melbourne: Blyth, Brunswick, Edward, Fitzroy North -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1951 two-party majority: ALP over Liberal 22.4 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 36,313 -09.9 Votes cast: 34,850 96.0 -00.1 Informal votes: 613 01.8 -00.4 Formal votes: 34,237 98.2 +00.4 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- Vida Little CPA 1,467 04.3 Edward PETERS * ALP 23,510 68.7 -03.7 Alfred Wall Lib 9,260 27.0 -00.6 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 34,237 22.6 e 00.2 to ALP -------------------------------------------------------------------- Edward William Peters (1897-1980): Elected 1949, 1951, 1954 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Burke was abolished at the 1955 redistribution. Peters contested Scullin in 1955. --------------------------------------------------------------------