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Candidates Of The 1918 South Australian State Election
This is a list of candidates of the 1918 South Australian state election. Retiring MPs Liberal * David James ( Wooroora) – lost preselection * James Howe MLC (Northern District) – retired Independent * Clarence Goode Clarence Goode (17 August 1875 – 30 April 1969) was a farmer and politician in South Australia. Descendants pronounce the family name to rhyme with "wood". History Clarence was born at Canowie Station the son of Thomas Goode. He was educ ... ( Victoria) – retired There had also been two resignations in the months leading up to the election which had remained unfilled. Sturt National MP Thomas Ryan had resigned on 16 November 1917 following his election to the Parliament of Victoria at the 1917 Victorian election, while Liberal Midland District MLC Edward Lucas had resigned on 1 February 1918 following his appointment as Agent-General for South Australia. In addition, Newcastle Labor MP Andrew Kirkpatrick shifted houses, contesting the Legis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1918 South Australian State Election
State elections were held in South Australia on 6 April 1918. All 46 seats in the South Australian House of Assembly were up for election. The incumbent Liberal Union government led by Premier of South Australia Archibald Peake defeated the opposition Australian Labor Party led by Leader of the Opposition Andrew Kirkpatrick. Each district elected multiple members, with voters casting multiple votes. The 1918 election was the first at which any women stood as candidates. Selina Siggins (Adelaide) and Jeanne Young ( Sturt) both ran unsuccessfully as independents. Background The Crawford Vaughan Labor government fell in July 1917 due to the Australian Labor Party split of 1916 on conscription, and was replaced by a Peake Liberal minority government. This was replaced by the Peake Liberal- National Labor coalition government in August 1917. Peake initially formed a ministry of liberals, but after complaints from National Labor who had supported him in the confidence motion, he i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Labor Party (South Australian Branch)
The Australian Labor Party (South Australian Branch), commonly known as South Australian Labor, is the South Australian Branch of the Australian Labor Party, originally formed in 1891 as the United Labor Party of South Australia. It is one of two major parties in the bicameral Parliament of South Australia, the other being the Liberal Party of Australia (SA Division). Since the 1970 election, marking the beginning of democratic proportional representation (one vote, one value) and ending decades of pro-rural electoral malapportionment known as the Playmander, Labor have won 11 of the 15 elections. Spanning 16 years and 4 terms, Labor was last in government from the 2002 election until the 2018 election. Jay Weatherill led the Labor government since a 2011 leadership change from Mike Rann. During 2013 it became the longest-serving state Labor government in South Australian history, and in addition went on to win a fourth four-year term at the 2014 election. After losing the 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral District Of Alexandra
Alexandra was an electoral district of the House of Assembly in the Australian state of South Australia from 1902 to 1992, and was formed when the electoral districts of Encounter Bay, Mount Barker and Noarlunga were amalgamated. The district included the Fleurieu Peninsula, to the south of Adelaide. Alexandra was renamed Finniss at the 1993 state election. Members for Alexandra See also * 1992 Alexandra state by-election A by-election was held for the South Australian House of Assembly seat of Alexandra on 9 May 1992. This was triggered by the resignation of former state Liberal MHA Ted Chapman. The seat had been retained by the Liberals since it was created and f ... References External links1985 & 1989 election boundaries, page 18 & 19 [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Alfred O'Connor
Richard Alfred O'Connor (18 September 1880 – 3 March 1941) was an Australian politician. He was a Liberal Union (South Australia), Liberal Union member of the South Australian House of Assembly from 1915 to 1921, representing the multi-member seat of Electoral district of Albert (South Australia), Albert. Early life and career O'Connor was born at Cradock, South Australia, Cradock and educated at Christian Brothers' College, but was raised at Hawker, South Australia, Hawker, where he was the son of the local storekeeper. He continued the family business (P. O'Connor & Son) for several years upon the death of his father. He was secretary of the Hawker Vigilance Committee, treasurer of the Hawker Gymnasium Club, a member of the Hawker Institute Committee and a regular lap steward for local horseracing. The Hawker business was sold in 1907, at which time O'Connor relocated to Lameroo and began operating the general store there. He was made a justice of the peace in 1908. In 1909, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Angus (Australian Politician)
William Angus (4 June 1871 – 15 May 1965) was a Scottish-born Australian politician and farmer. Angus was born in Keithhall, Aberdeenshire, Scotland and was educated at the University of Aberdeen, gaining a B.Sc. (Agriculture) in 1900. He arrived in South Australia in 1904 and became professor (later director) of agriculture and secretary to the minister of agriculture. After a year of farming, Angus was elected to the South Australian House of Assembly as member for Victoria and Albert from February 1912 to May 1915 and as member for Albert Albert may refer to: Companies * Albert (supermarket), a supermarket chain in the Czech Republic * Albert Heijn, a supermarket chain in the Netherlands * Albert Market, a street market in The Gambia * Albert Productions, a record label * Alber ... May 1915 to April 1921. Angus was chairman of committees in 1920 and secretary of the parliamentary Liberal Party. References 1871 births 1965 deaths Members of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral District Of Albert (South Australia)
Albert was an electoral district of the House of Assembly in South Australia, spanning its time as both a colony and a state. It was created in 1875, taking much territory from adjacent Victoria, merged with Victoria in 1902 as Victoria and Albert, separated again in 1915, and abolished in 1970. In 1875, Albert had booths at Bordertown, Kingston, Meningie, Naracoorte, Robe and Wellington East. It added booths at Lucindale (1878), Mannum East (1884), Wolseley (1885) and Mundulla (1887). It lost the Mannum East booth in 1890, but added further booths at Frances, Glenroy and Keith in 1893, at which time the Naracoorte booth was also renamed Kincraig. In 1896, Albert also added booths at Conmurra, Holder, Kingston on Murray, Lyrup, Murtho, Point McLeay, Pyap and Waikerie, but lost Glenroy. It regained a Glenroy booth and added Cookes Plains in 1899. It was then merged with Victoria as Victoria and Albert from the 1902 state election. The recreated Albert seat i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Selina Siggins
Selina Sarah Elizabeth Siggins (née Charters, previously Anderson; 12 May 1878 – 30 November 1964) was an Australian political activist who became the first woman to stand for the Australian House of Representatives. She ran as an independent at the 1903 federal election, the first at which women were eligible to be candidates. Although she spent most of her life in New South Wales, in 1918 she also became one of the first two women to stand for the Parliament of South Australia. Siggins was introduced to politics through her involvement in the labour movement, and initially supported the Labor Party. She eventually fell out with the party over its refusal to endorse her as a candidate. Her final run for parliament came at the 1922 federal election, where she became the first woman to stand for the Country Party. Early life Siggins was born on 12 May 1878 near the small mining town of Hill End, New South Wales. She was the only child of Sarah Charlotte (née Lawrence) a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reginald Blundell
Reginald Pole Blundell (4 February 1871 – 9 August 1945) was a member of the South Australian House of Assembly from 1907 to 1918 and the Australian House of Representatives from 1919 to 1922. Blundell was born in the Adelaide suburb of Norwood and educated at Norwood Public School. He married Alice Clara Gates in 1894. He joined the Tobacco Twisters' Union and was its secretary for eight years. He became secretary of the United Trades and Labour Council of South Australia and was its president in 1905. He was a Senate candidate in the 1906 federal election in South Australia, finishing a close 5th, missing out by less than 200 votes. Blundell successfully challenged the election, with the High Court in June 1907 declaring that the election of the third choice Senator Joseph Vardon was void. Blundell did not personally benefit from that success as he had subsequently been successful at a by-election in January 1907 to the House of Assembly as one of four members fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bert Edwards (politician)
Albert Augustine Edwards (6 November 1888 – 24 August 1963) was an Australian publican and politician. Early life and education Edwards was born in Adelaide on 6 November 1888. His father was "widely believed" to be Charles Kingston, a member of parliament and future premier. He attended St Joseph's School in Russell Street, in the south-western corner of Adelaide city centre. Businessman Before entering politics he held various jobs as a stall keeper, marine store dealer and hotel keeper, eventually holding licences for the Brunswick Hotel, the Newmarket Hotel on North Terrace and the Hotel Victor at Victor Harbor. He took over the British Lion Hotel in Hindmarsh. Politics In 1917 he was elected to the South Australian House of Assembly as the Labor member for Adelaide. He was also a prominent elected member of the Adelaide City Council. In both State and Municipal politics he had a frequent antagonist in Mrs. A. K. Goode. Goode and Edwards were candidates for t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Gunn (Australian Politician)
John Gunn (16 December 1884 – 27 June 1959) was an Australian politician who served as the 29th Premier of South Australia, leading the South Australian Branch of the Australian Labor Party to government at the 1924 election. Early life Gunn was born in Bendigo, Victoria, the second of nine children to a Scottish miner and his wife. Gunn's father died when he was young, forcing him to work as a delivery boy to support his mother and siblings while studying at night classes. Gunn worked a variety of jobs in Melbourne and in the Western Australian timber mills before returning to Melbourne to marry Haidee Smith on 8 September 1908. They then moved to Adelaide where Gunn found work as a horse-lorry driver on the Port Road. He soon became the President of the South Australian branch of the Federated Carters and Driver's Union and organised the 1910 Drivers' Strike, which secured reduced working hours, although he made enemies in the wealthy and influential Adelaide Establish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Denny (Australian Politician)
William Joseph Denny (6 December 1872 – 2 May 1946) was an Australian journalist, lawyer, politician and decorated soldier who held the South Australian House of Assembly seats of West Adelaide from 1900 to 1902 and then Adelaide from 1902 to 1905 and again from 1906 to 1933. After an unsuccessful candidacy as a United Labor Party (ULP) member in 1899, he was elected as an " independent liberal" in a by-election in 1900. He was re-elected in 1902, but defeated in 1905. The following year, he was elected as a ULP candidate, and retained his seat for that party (the Australian Labor Party from 1917) until 1931. Along with the rest of the cabinet, he was ejected from the Australian Labor Party in 1931, and was a member of the Parliamentary Labor Party until his electoral defeat at the hands of a Lang Labor Party candidate in 1933. Denny served as Attorney-General of South Australia and Minister for the Northern Territory in the government led by John Verran (1910 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral District Of Adelaide
Adelaide is a single-member electoral district for the South Australian House of Assembly. The 22.8 km² state seat of Adelaide currently consists of the Adelaide city centre including North Adelaide and suburbs to the inner north and inner north east: Collinswood, Fitzroy, Gilberton, Medindie, Medindie Gardens, Ovingham, Thorngate, Walkerville, most of Prospect, and part of Nailsworth. The federal division of Adelaide covers the state seat of Adelaide and additional suburbs in each direction. The electorate's name comes from the city which it encompasses, which is named after the British queen Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen. History The six-seat multi-member electoral district of City of Adelaide existed from 1857 to 1862. The four-member electoral district of Adelaide was created by the Constitution Act Amendment Act, 1901 for the 1902 election from the districts of East Adelaide, West Adelaide and North Adelaide; together with the three-member Port Adelaide and f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
