ELECTIONS FOR THE DIVISION OF OXLEY, QUEENSLAND ==================================================================== ELECTION OF 29-30 MARCH 1901 ==================================================================== Suburban Brisbane: Brisbane South, Coorparoo, Logan, Woolloongabba -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 12,277 Votes cast: 7,097 57.8 Informal votes: 45 00.6 Formal votes: 7,052 99.4 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Richard EDWARDS Prot 3,753 53.2 Henry Turley Lab 3,299 46.8 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 7,052 03.2 -------------------------------------------------------------------- For Turley, see Senate Queensland 1903. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Edwards (1842-1915): Elected 1901 Born: 1842, Montgomeryshire, Wales. Career: Educated Wales. Migrated 1862. Goldminer in Victoria, then shopkeeper in Brisbane. Investor in sugar and newspapers. -------------------------------------------------------------------- ELECTION OF 16 DECEMBER 1903 ==================================================================== Suburban Brisbane: Brisbane South, Coorparoo, Logan, Woolloongabba -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1901 two-party majority: Protectionist over Labour 03.2 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 31,326 +155.2 Votes cast: 17,290 55.2 -02.6 Informal votes: 382 02.2 +01.6 Formal votes: 16,908 97.8 -01.6 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- Richard EDWARDS * NLU 8,846 52.3 -00.9 Carl Reinhold Lab 8,062 47.7 +00.9 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 16,908 02.3 00.9 to Lab -------------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Edwards (1842-1915): Elected 1901, 1903 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Edwards joined the Anti-Socialist party in 1906. -------------------------------------------------------------------- ELECTION OF 12 DECEMBER 1906 ==================================================================== Brisbane suburban: Brisbane South, Toombul, Windsor, Woolloongabba -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1903 two-party majority: NLU over Labour 02.3 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 34,589 +10.4 Votes cast: 13,729 39.7 -15.5 Informal votes: 635 04.6 +02.4 Formal votes: 13,094 95.4 -02.4 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- Hon Richard EDWARDS * AS 8,722 66.6 Alfred Merry Lab 4,372 33.4 -14.3 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 13,094 16.6 14.3 to AS -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Edwards stood as an Anti-Socialist having previously sat as a Protectionist. 2. The Anti-Socialist majority over Labour is compared with the Protectionist majority over Labour in 1903. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Edwards (1842-1915): Elected 1901, 1903, 1906 -------------------------------------------------------------------- ELECTION OF 13 APRIL 1910 ==================================================================== Suburban Brisbane: Brisbane South, Toombul, Windsor, Woolloongabba -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1906 two-party majority: Anti-Socialist over Labour 16.6 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 30,805 -08.9 Votes cast: 17,609 57.2 +17.5 Informal votes: 893 05.1 +00.5 Formal votes: 16,716 94.9 -00.5 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- Frederick Dent 6,317 37.8 Hon Richard EDWARDS * Lib 10,399 62.2 -04.4 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 16,716 12.2 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Edwards (1842-1915): Elected 1901, 1903, 1906, 1910 Edwards retired in 1913. Later career: Business, publishing and philanthropy. Died 29 October 1915 -------------------------------------------------------------------- ELECTION OF 31 MAY 1913 ==================================================================== Suburban Brisbane: Brisbane South, Coorparoo, Kangaroo Point, Woolloongabba -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1910 majority: Liberal over Independent 12.2 Effect of 1912 redistribution: cannot be calculated -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 38,238 +24.1 Votes cast: 31,372 82.0 +24.8 Informal votes: 601 01.9 -03.2 Formal votes: 30,771 98.1 +03.2 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- David Hunter + Lib 14,027 45.6 -12.4 James SHARPE ALP 16,744 54.4 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 30,771 04.4 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Hunter was Qld MLA for Woolloongabba 1908-12. -------------------------------------------------------------------- James Benjamin Sharpe (1868-1935): Elected 1913 Born: 1868, Kiama, NSW. Career: Educated public schools. To Queensland as young man. Tobacconist and labour journalist, press proprietor. Alderman Brisbane City Council. -------------------------------------------------------------------- ELECTION OF 5 SEPTEMBER 1914 ==================================================================== Suburban Brisbane: Brisbane South, Coorparoo, Kangaroo Point, Woolloongabba -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1913 two-party majority: ALP over Liberal 04.4 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 41,498 +08.5 Votes cast: 32,880 79.2 -02.8 Informal votes: 805 02.4 +00.5 Formal votes: 32,075 97.6 -00.5 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- James Bayley Lib 13,841 43.2 -02.4 James SHARPE * ALP 18,234 56.8 +02.4 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 32,075 06.8 02.4 to ALP -------------------------------------------------------------------- For Bayley, see Oxley 1917. -------------------------------------------------------------------- James Benjamin Sharpe (1868-1935): Elected 1913, 1914 -------------------------------------------------------------------- ELECTION OF 5 MAY 1917 ==================================================================== Suburban Brisbane: Brisbane South, Coorparoo, Kangaroo Point, Woolloongabba -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1914 two-party majority: ALP over Liberal 06.8 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 45,975 +10.8 Votes cast: 41,642 90.6 +11.4 Informal votes: 708 01.7 -00.7 Formal votes: 40,934 98.3 +00.7 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- James BAYLEY Nat 21,603 52.8 +09.6 James Sharpe * ALP 19,331 47.2 -09.6 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 40,934 02.8 09.6 to Nat -------------------------------------------------------------------- > James Benjamin Sharpe (1868-1935): Elected 1913, 1914. Defeated 1917 Later career: Life insurance officer Died 8 July 1935 > James Garfield Bayley (1882-1968): Elected 1917 Born: 26 March 1882, Franklin, Tasmania. Career: To Queensland as child. Educated Brisbane Grammar School, Stanford University, United States. Teacher, school principal. Brother of Irene Longman MLA, first woman elected to the Queensland Parliament. -------------------------------------------------------------------- ELECTION OF 13 DECEMBER 1919 ==================================================================== Suburban Brisbane: Brisbane South, Coorparoo, Kangaroo Point, Woolloongabba -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1917 two-party majority: Nationalist over ALP 02.8 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 48,955 +06.5 Votes cast: 42,768 87.4 -03.2 Informal votes: 791 01.8 +00.1 Formal votes: 41,977 98.2 -00.1 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- James BAYLEY * Nat 22,576 53.8 +01.0 James Sharpe ALP 19,401 46.2 -01.0 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 41,977 03.8 01.0 to Nat -------------------------------------------------------------------- Sharpe was member for Oxley 1913-17. -------------------------------------------------------------------- James Garfield Bayley (1882-1968): Elected 1917, 1919 -------------------------------------------------------------------- ELECTION OF 16 DECEMBER 1922 ==================================================================== Suburban Brisbane: Bulimba, Buranda, Kurilpa, Maree -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1919 two-party majority: Nationalist over ALP 03.8 Effect of redistribution: no change -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 45,266 -07.5 Votes cast: 38,313 84.6 -02.8 Informal votes: 1,615 04.2 +02.4 Formal votes: 36,698 95.8 -02.4 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- James BAYLEY * Nat 19,552 53.3 -00.5 James Sharpe ALP 17,146 46.7 +00.5 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 36,698 03.3 00.5 to ALP -------------------------------------------------------------------- Sharpe was member for Oxley 1913-17. -------------------------------------------------------------------- James Garfield Bayley (1882-1968): Elected 1917, 1919, 1922 -------------------------------------------------------------------- ELECTION OF 14 NOVEMBER 1925 ==================================================================== Suburban Brisbane: Bulimba, Buranda, Kurilpa, Maree -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1922 two-party majority: Nationalist over ALP 03.3 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 51,353 +13.4 Votes cast: 47,329 92.2 +07.6 Informal votes: 1,675 03.5 -00.7 Formal votes: 45,654 96.5 +00.7 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- James BAYLEY * Nat 25,421 55.7 +02.4 James Sharpe ALP 20,233 44.3 -02.4 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 45,654 05.7 02.4 to Nat -------------------------------------------------------------------- Sharpe was member for Oxley 1913-17. -------------------------------------------------------------------- James Garfield Bayley (1882-1968): Elected 1917, 1919, 1922, 1925 -------------------------------------------------------------------- ELECTION OF 17 NOVEMBER 1928 ==================================================================== Suburban Brisbane: Bulimba, Buranda, Kurilpa, Maree -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1925 two-party majority: Nationalist over ALP 05.7 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 55,618 +08.3 Votes cast: 52,178 93.8 +01.6 Informal votes: 3,376 06.5 +03.0 Formal votes: 48,802 93.5 -03.0 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- Francis Baker ALP 22,579 46.3 +02.0 James BAYLEY * Nat 26,223 53.7 -02.0 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 48,802 03.7 02.0 to ALP -------------------------------------------------------------------- For Baker, see Oxley 1931. -------------------------------------------------------------------- James Garfield Bayley (1882-1968): Elected 1917, 1919, 1922, 1925, 1928 -------------------------------------------------------------------- ELECTION OF 12 OCTOBER 1929 ==================================================================== Suburban Brisbane: Bulimba, Buranda, Kurilpa, Maree -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1928 two-party majority: Nationalist over ALP 03.7 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 56,613 +01.8 Votes cast: 54,091 95.5 +01.7 Informal votes: 1,575 02.9 -03.6 Formal votes: 52,516 97.1 +03.6 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- Francis Baker ALP 26,208 49.9 +03.6 James BAYLEY * Nat 26,308 50.1 -03.6 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 52,516 00.1 03.6 to ALP -------------------------------------------------------------------- For Baker, see Oxley 1931. -------------------------------------------------------------------- James Garfield Bayley (1882-1968): Elected 1917, 1919, 1922, 1925, 1928, 1929 -------------------------------------------------------------------- ELECTION OF 19 DECEMBER 1931 ==================================================================== Suburban Brisbane: Bulimba, Buranda, Kurilpa, Maree -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1929 two-party majority: Nationalist over ALP 00.1 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 57,908 +02.3 Votes cast: 55,389 95.6 +00.1 Informal votes: 1,480 02.7 -00.2 Formal votes: 53,909 97.3 +00.2 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- Francis BAKER ALP 29,252 54.3 +04.4 James Bayley * UAP 23,563 43.7 -06.4 Francis Pforr 1,094 02.0 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 53,909 05.8 e 05.9 to ALP -------------------------------------------------------------------- Pforr was a Lang Labor candidate. The Lang supporters in Queensland were a splinter group from the ALP and are not classed with the ALP (NSW). -------------------------------------------------------------------- > James Garfield Bayley (1882-1968): Elected 1917, 1919, 1922, 1925, 1928, 1929. Defeated 1931 Later career: Qld MLA for Wynnum 1933-35. Died 14 January 1968 > Francis Matthew John Baker (1903-39): Elected 1931 Born: 1903, Bundaberg, Queensland. Career: Educated Queensland. Public servant. Vice-President State Service Union. Son of Francis Patrick Baker MP. -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Baker and William Hutchinson (Indi, Victoria) were the first members of the House born after Federation. 2. Oxley was abolished at the 1934 redistribution. Baker contested Griffith in 1934. --------------------------------------------------------------------