This is a list of electoral results for the Division of Australian Capital Territory in Australian federal elections from the division's creation in 1949 until its abolition in 1974.
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Canada and the United States share the longest, straightest, possibly boringest border in the world. But, look closer, and there's plenty of bizarreness to be found. While these sister nations get along fairly well, they both want to make it really clear whose side of the continent is whose. And they've done this by carving a 20-foot wide space along the border. All five and a half thousand miles of it. With the exception of the rare New England town that predates national borders or the odd airport that needed extending, this space is the no-touching-zone between the countries and they're super serious about keeping it clear. It matters not if the no-touching-zone runs through hundreds of miles of virtually uninhabited Alaskan / Yukon wilderness. Those border trees, will not stand. Which might make you think this must be the longest, straightest deforested place in the world, but it isn't. Deforested: yes, but straight? Not at all. Sure it looks straight and on a map, and the treaties establishing the line *say* it's straight... but in the real world the official border is 900 lines that zig-zags from the horizontal by as much as several hundred feet. How did this happen? Well, imagine you're back in North America in the 1800s -- The 49th parallel (one of those horizontal lines you see on a globe) has just been set as the national boundary and it's your job to make it real. You're handed a compass and a ball of string and told to carefully mark off the next 2/3rds of a continent. Don't mind that uncharted wilderness in the way: just keep the line straight. Yeah. Good luck. With that. The men who surveyed the land did the best they could and built over 900 monuments. They're in about as straight as you could expect a pre-GPS civilization to make, but it's not the kind of spherical / planar intersection that would bring a mathematician joy. Nonetheless these monuments define the border and the no-touching-zone plays connect-the-dots with them. Oh, and while there are about 900 markers along this section of the border, there are about 8,000 in total that define the shape of the nations. Despite this massive project Canada and the United States still have disputed territory. There is a series of islands in the Atlantic that the United States claims are part of Maine and Canada claims are part of New Brunswick. Canada, assuming the islands are hers built a lighthouse on one of them, and the United States, assuming the islands are hers pretends the lighthouse doesn't exist. It's not a huge problem as the argument is mostly over tourists who want to see puffins and fishermen who want to catch lobsters, but let's hope the disagreement gets resolved before someone finds oil under that lighthouse. Even the non-disputed territory has a few notably weird spots: such as this tick of the border upward into Canada. Zoom in and it gets stranger as the border isn't over solid land but runs through a lake to cut off a bit of Canada before diving back down to the US. This spot is home to about 100 Americans and is a perfect example of how border irregularities are born: Back in 1783 when the victorious Americans were negotiating with the British who controlled what would one day be Canada, they needed a map, and this map was the best available at the time. While the East Coast looks pretty good, the wester it goes the sparser it gets. Under negotiation was the edge of what would one day be Minnesota and Manitoba. But unfortunately, that area was hidden underneath an inset on the map, so the Americans and British were bordering blind. Seriously. They guessed that the border should start from the northwestern part of this lake and go in a horizontal line until it crossed the Mississippi... somewhere. But somewhere, turned out to be nowhere as the mighty Mississippi stops short of that line, which left the border vague until 35 years later when a second round of negotiations established the aforementioned 49th parallel. But there was still a problem as the lake mentioned earlier was both higher, and less circular than first though, putting its northwesterly point here so the existing border had to jump up to meet it and then drop straight down to the 49th, awkwardly cutting off a bit of Canada, before heading west across the remainder of the continent. Turns out you just can't draw a straight(-ish) line for hundreds of miles without causing a few more problems. One of which was luckily spotted in advance: Vancouver Island, which the 49th would have sliced through, but both sides agreed that would be dumb so the border swoops around the island. However, next door to Vancouver Island is Point Roberts which went unnoticed as so today the border blithey cuts across. It's a nice little town, home to over 1,000 Americans, but has only a primary school so its older kids have to cross international borders four times a day to go to school in their own state. In a pleasing symetry, the East cost has the exact opposite situation with a Canadian Island whose only land route is a bridge to the United States. And these two aren't the only places where each country contains a bit of the other: there are several more, easily spotted in sattelite photos by the no-touching zone. Regardless of if the land in question is just an uninhabited strip, in the middle of a lake, in the middle of nowhere, the border between these sister nations must remain clearly marked.
Members
Member | Party | Term | |
---|---|---|---|
Lewis Nott | Independent | 1949–1951 | |
Jim Fraser | Labor | 1951–1970 | |
Kep Enderby | Labor | 1970–1974 |
Election results
Elections in the 1970s
1972
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labor | Kep Enderby | 40,147 | 52.1 | −15.6 | |
Liberal | Peter Hughes | 17,556 | 22.8 | −4.1 | |
Australia | Alan Fitzgerald | 10,529 | 13.7 | +9.1 | |
Independent | Arthur Burns | 3,133 | 4.1 | +4.1 | |
Democratic Labor | Terence Christie | 2,758 | 3.6 | +3.6 | |
Independent | Pat Eatock | 2,003 | 2.6 | +2.6 | |
Independent | Michael Salvador | 140 | 0.2 | +0.2 | |
Independent | Harry Marsh | 67 | 0.1 | +0.1 | |
Total formal votes | 77,003 | 98.1 | |||
Informal votes | 1,506 | 1.9 | |||
Turnout | 78,509 | 93.9 | |||
Two-party-preferred result | |||||
Labor | Kep Enderby | 65.5 | −5.7 | ||
Liberal | Peter Hughes | 34.5 | +5.7 | ||
Labor hold | Swing | −5.7 |
1970 by-election
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labor | Kep Enderby | 20,132 | 35.6 | -32.1 | |
Liberal | Clarrie Hermes | 15,900 | 28.1 | +1.2 | |
Australia | Alan Fitzgerald | 9,914 | 17.5 | +12.9 | |
Independent | Jim Pead | 8,151 | 14.4 | +14.4 | |
Democratic Labor | Terence Christie | 1,857 | 3.3 | +3.3 | |
Independent | Charles Bellchambers | 438 | 0.8 | +0.8 | |
National Socialist | Ted Cawthron | 173 | 0.3 | +0.3 | |
Total formal votes | 56,565 | 96.9 | |||
Informal votes | 1,813 | 3.1 | |||
Turnout | 58,378 | 90.5 | |||
Two-party-preferred result | |||||
Labor | Kep Enderby | 32,690 | 57.8 | -13.4 | |
Liberal | Clarrie Hermes | 23,875 | 42.2 | +13.4 | |
Labor hold | Swing | -13.4 |
Elections in the 1960s
1969
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labor | Jim Fraser | 39,070 | 67.7 | +16.0 | |
Liberal | Robert Maher | 15,492 | 26.9 | −11.0 | |
Australia | Thomas McDermott | 2,651 | 4.6 | +4.6 | |
Communist | Don McHugh | 477 | 0.8 | +0.8 | |
Total formal votes | 57,690 | 98.2 | |||
Informal votes | 1,083 | 1.8 | |||
Turnout | 58,773 | 92.9 | |||
Two-party-preferred result | |||||
Labor | Jim Fraser | 71.2 | +15.4 | ||
Liberal | Robert Maher | 28.8 | −15.4 | ||
Labor hold | Swing | +15.4 |
1966
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labor | Jim Fraser | 22,721 | 51.6 | −3.3 | |
Liberal | Robert Rowell | 16,685 | 36.9 | −7.2 | |
Democratic Labor | John Donohue | 2,193 | 5.0 | +5.0 | |
Independent | Anne Dalgarno | 1,458 | 3.3 | +3.3 | |
Independent | Robert Greenish | 938 | 2.1 | +2.1 | |
Total formal votes | 43,995 | 98.3 | |||
Informal votes | 777 | 1.7 | |||
Turnout | 44,772 | 93.0 | |||
Two-party-preferred result | |||||
Labor | Jim Fraser | 55.8 | +0.9 | ||
Liberal | Robert Rowell | 44.2 | −0.9 | ||
Labor hold | Swing | +0.9 |
1963
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labor | Jim Fraser | 17,984 | 54.9 | −10.0 | |
Liberal | Elizabeth Calvert | 14,748 | 45.1 | +10.0 | |
Total formal votes | 32,732 | 97.9 | |||
Informal votes | 701 | 2.1 | |||
Turnout | 33,433 | 92.8 | |||
Labor hold | Swing | −10.0 |
1961
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labor | Jim Fraser | 17,114 | 64.9 | +1.5 | |
Liberal | Geoffrey Small | 9,263 | 35.1 | +11.9 | |
Total formal votes | 26,377 | 98.7 | |||
Informal votes | 351 | 1.3 | |||
Turnout | 26,728 | 93.2 | |||
Labor hold | Swing | −1.9 |
Elections in the 1950s
1958
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labor | Jim Fraser | 11,980 | 63.4 | −1.2 | |
Liberal | Anne Dalgarno | 4,383 | 23.2 | −12.2 | |
Independent | Phil Day | 2,534 | 13.4 | +13.4 | |
Total formal votes | 18,897 | 98.7 | |||
Informal votes | 251 | 1.3 | |||
Turnout | 19,148 | 93.2 | |||
Two-party-preferred result | |||||
Labor | Jim Fraser | 66.8 | +2.2 | ||
Liberal | Anne Dalgarno | 23.2 | −2.2 | ||
Labor hold | Swing | +2.2 |
1955
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labor | Jim Fraser | 9,588 | 64.6 | +1.9 | |
Liberal | Robert Greenish | 5,263 | 35.4 | +1.0 | |
Total formal votes | 14,851 | 99.2 | |||
Informal votes | 126 | 0.8 | |||
Turnout | 14,977 | 92.6 | |||
Labor hold | Swing | −0.3 |
1954
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labor | Jim Fraser | 8,762 | 62.7 | +12.8 | |
Liberal | Mary Stevenson | 4,799 | 34.4 | +15.1 | |
Independent | John Cusack | 405 | 2.9 | +2.9 | |
Total formal votes | 13,966 | 99.2 | |||
Informal votes | 108 | 0.8 | |||
Turnout | 14,074 | 94.3 | |||
Two-party-preferred result | |||||
Labor | Jim Fraser | 64.9 | +14.1 | ||
Liberal | Mary Stevenson | 35.1 | +35.1 | ||
Labor hold | Swing | +14.1 |
1951
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labor | Jim Fraser | 5,905 | 49.9 | +6.7 | |
Independent | Lewis Nott | 3,265 | 27.6 | −3.5 | |
Liberal | Clyde Greenwood | 2,287 | 19.3 | −3.2 | |
Independent | Jessie Ashton | 373 | 3.2 | −0.1 | |
Total formal votes | 11,830 | 99.4 | |||
Informal votes | 69 | 0.6 | |||
Turnout | 11,899 | 93.2 | |||
Two-party-preferred result | |||||
Labor | Jim Fraser | 52.9 | +6.7 | ||
Independent | Lewis Nott | 47.1 | −6.7 | ||
Labor gain from Independent | Swing | +6.7 |
Elections in the 1940s
1949
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labor | Sidney Rhodes | 4,823 | 43.2 | +43.2 | |
Independent | Lewis Nott | 3,475 | 31.1 | +31.1 | |
Liberal | Malcolm Moir | 2,510 | 22.5 | +22.5 | |
Independent | Jessie Ashton | 366 | 3.3 | +3.3 | |
Total formal votes | 11,174 | 99.4 | |||
Informal votes | 68 | 0.6 | |||
Turnout | 11,242 | 94.9 | |||
Two-party-preferred result | |||||
Independent | Lewis Nott | 6,013 | 53.8 | +53.8 | |
Labor | Sidney Rhodes | 5,161 | 46.2 | +46.2 | |
Independent win | (new seat) |
References
- ^ "1972 House of Representatives: Australian Capital Territory". Psephos Adam Carr's Election Archive. Retrieved 29 May 2022.
- ^ "By-Elections 1960-1972". Psephos. Archived from the original on 29 May 2012. Retrieved 19 May 2012.
- ^ "1969 House of Representatives: Australian Capital Territory". Psephos Adam Carr's Election Archive. Retrieved 29 May 2022.
- ^ "1966 House of Representatives: Australian Capital Territory". Psephos Adam Carr's Election Archive. Retrieved 29 May 2022.
- ^ "1963 House of Representatives: Australian Capital Territory". Psephos Adam Carr's Election Archive. Retrieved 29 May 2022.
- ^ "1961 House of Representatives: Australian Capital Territory". Psephos Adam Carr's Election Archive. Retrieved 29 May 2022.
- ^ "1958 House of Representatives: Australian Capital Territory". Psephos Adam Carr's Election Archive. Retrieved 29 May 2022.
- ^ "1955 House of Representatives: Australian Capital Territory". Psephos Adam Carr's Election Archive. Retrieved 29 May 2022.
- ^ "1954 House of Representatives: Australian Capital Territory". Psephos Adam Carr's Election Archive. Retrieved 29 May 2022.
- ^ "1951 House of Representatives: Australian Capital Territory". Psephos Adam Carr's Election Archive. Retrieved 29 May 2022.
- ^ "1949 House of Representatives: Australian Capital Territory". Psephos Adam Carr's Election Archive. Retrieved 29 May 2022.