ELECTIONS FOR THE DIVISION OF HODDLE, VICTORIA ==================================================================== ELECTION OF 10 DECEMBER 1949 ==================================================================== Inner Melbourne: Abbotsford, Carlton, Collingwood, Fitzroy -------------------------------------------------------------------- New seat: 1946 notional two-party majority: ALP over Liberal 33.1 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 40,406 Votes cast: 38,152 94.4 Informal votes: 1,382 03.6 Formal votes: 36,770 96.4 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- John CREMEAN + ALP 28,351 77.1 +01.3 Terence Kirby Lib 6,593 17.9 -03.3 Leslie Loye CPA 1,137 03.1 +00.0 Albert Wallace 689 01.9 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 36,770 30.8 e 02.3 to Lib -------------------------------------------------------------------- John Lawrence Cremean (1907-82): Elected 1949 Born: 26 January 1907, Melbourne. Career: Educated Catholic schools. Clerk. Secretary to Hon Arthur Calwell 1942-45. Secretary Fire Brigades Employees Union 1945-48. Richmond City Council. State politics: Vic MLA for Clifton Hill 1945-49. -------------------------------------------------------------------- ELECTION OF 28 APRIL 1951 ==================================================================== Inner Melbourne: Abbotsford, Carlton, Collingwood, Fitzroy -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1949 two-party majority: ALP over Liberal 30.8 e -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 38,614 -04.4 Votes cast: 36,464 94.4 00.0 Informal votes: 1,276 03.5 -00.1 Formal votes: 35,188 96.5 +00.1 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- John CREMEAN * ALP 27,685 78.7 +01.6 Ernest Easton Lib 6,193 17.6 -00.3 Leslie Loye CPA 1,310 03.7 +00.6 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 35,188 32.1 e 01.3 to ALP -------------------------------------------------------------------- John Lawrence Cremean (1907-82): Elected 1949, 1951 -------------------------------------------------------------------- ELECTION OF 29 MAY 1954 ==================================================================== Inner Melbourne: Abbotsford, Carlton, Collingwood, Fitzroy -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1951 two-party majority: ALP over Liberal 32.1 e -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 33,617 -12.9 Votes cast: 31,706 94.3 -00.1 Informal votes: 767 02.4 -01.1 Formal votes: 30,939 97.6 +01.1 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- Desmond Byrne Lib 6,302 20.4 +02.8 John CREMEAN * ALP 23,439 75.8 -02.9 John Prescott CPA 1,198 03.9 +00.2 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 30,939 29.4 e 02.7 to Lib -------------------------------------------------------------------- John Lawrence Cremean (1907-82): Elected 1949, 1951, 1954 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. In April 1955 Cremean was one of seven MPs who were expelled from the ALP and formed the Australian Labor Party (Anti-Communist). 2. Hoddle was abolished at the 1955 redistribution. Cremean contested Scullin in 1955. --------------------------------------------------------------------