ELECTIONS TO THE TASMANIAN LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL ==================================================================== Sources: Reports of the Chief Electoral Officer (from 1929) CORNWALL ==================================================================== CORNWALL ==================================================================== Nominations 15 April, polling 8 May 1948 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 3,947 Total votes cast: 3,303 83.7 Informal votes: 45 01.4 Formal votes: 3,258 98.6 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Margaret E McIntyre 1,158 35.5 John M Quintal Labor 687 21.1 William Robinson * 715 21.9 Sinclair Thyne 698 21.4 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 3,258 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Quintal was Labor MHA for Bass 1942-46. 2. Robinson was MLC for Launceston 1942-46, Cornwall 1946-48. -------------------------------------------------------------------- 2nd count: Quintal's 687 votes distributed -------------------------------------------------------------------- McIntyre 309 45.0 1,467 45.0 Robinson * 294 42.8 1,009 31.0 Thyne 84 12.2 782 24.0 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 687 3,258 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 3rd count: Thyne's 782 votes distributed -------------------------------------------------------------------- McINTYRE 337 53.8 1,804 57.9 Robinson * 361 46.2 1,370 42.1 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 782 3,258 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Margaret Edgeworth McIntyre (1886-1948): Elected 1948 Born: 28 November 1886, Maitland NSW Career: Educated Univerity of Sydney. Community worker. First female Tas MP. Died (in plane crash) 2 September 1948: see by-election. -------------------------------------------------------------------- CORNWALL ==================================================================== Following the death of Margaret E McIntyre -------------------------------------------------------------------- Nominations 24 September, polling 16 October 1948 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 4,146 Total votes cast: 3,401 82.0 Informal votes: 38 01.1 Formal votes: 3,363 98.0 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Alexander C Atkins Labor 1,016 30.2 E George Record 1,567 46.6 William Robinson 780 23.2 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 3,363 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Atkins was MHA for Bass 1946-48. 2. Robinson was MLC for Launceston 1942-46, Cornwall 1946-48. -------------------------------------------------------------------- 2nd count: Robinson's 780 votes distributed -------------------------------------------------------------------- Atkins 126 16.2 1,142 31.8 RECORD 654 83.8 2,221 68.2 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 780 3,258 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Ernest George Record (1899-1956): Elected 1948 by Born: 10 May 1899, England Career: To Tas as child. Accountant. --------------------------------------------------------------------