FEDERAL ELECTIONS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 88, 15 April 1910, Page 2

FEDERAL ELECTIONS.

LABOUR PARTY'S LEAD. FIFTEEN SEATS. RESULTS SO FAR AVAILABLE. By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright. SYDNEY, 14th ApriL Full Teturns of the Federal elections are not yet available, but so far as ascertainable the results are as under: — THE HOUSE. NEW SOUTH WALES. BARRIER. •Josiah Thomas (Labour), over 6000. William F. Shepherd (Liberal), under 1000. CALARE. •Thomas Brown (Labour), safe. Henry R. M. Pigott (Liberal). COOK. •James H. Catta (Labour), leading. William C. Clegg (Liberal). DALLEY. Robert Howe (Labour), won by 3000. •William H. Wilks (Liberal). DARLING. •William 0. Spence (Labour), safe. James O. Carroll (Liberal). GWYDIR. •William Webster (Labour), safe. Robert Patten (Liberal). HUNTER. •Matthew Charlton (Labour), safe. Frank Liddell (Liberal). LANG. •William E. Johnson (Liberal) leads by 101. ' Rev. Thomas S. Crawford (Labour). MACQUARIE. •Ernest S. Carr (Labour), safe. Alfred H. B. Conroy (Liberal). NEWCASTLE. •David Watkins (Labour), elected. Frank E. Pulsford (Liberal). NEW ENGLAND. •Frank J. Foster (Labour), safe. William M. Fleming (Liberal). NORTH SYDNEY. •George B. Edwards (Liberal), elected. John B. Steelo (Independent). Percy E. Tighe (Labour). SOUTH SYDNEY. Edward Riley (Labour), elected. •Eden George (Liberal). EAST SYDNEY. John E. West (Labour), elected by 3000. Samuel E. Lees (Liberal). WEST SYDNEY. •William M. Hughes (Labour) elected by 8000. Stanley L. Cole (Liberal). Henry E. Holland (Socialist). PARKES. •Bruce Smith . (Liberal), leading strongly. H. E. Prattcn (Independent). Ernest H. Burgess (Labour). RIVERINA. •John M. Chanter (Labour), safe. John T. Jackson (Liberal). Edmund M. O'Dwyer (Independent). WENTWORTH. . •Wiljiam H, Kelly (Liberal), leading strongly. Arthur J. L. Vernon (Labour). WERRIWA. •David R. Hall (Labour), safe. Granville de L. Ryrie (Liberal). ROBERTSON. W, J. Johnson (Labour), probably safe. •Henry Willis (Liberal). NEPEAN. "E. K. Bowden (Liberal), probably safe. George Oann (Labour). COWPER. •John Thomson (Liberal), probably safe. Clement Johnson (Labour). John O'Brien (Independent). ILLAWARRA. •G. F. Fuller (Liberal), probably safe. G. M. Burns (Labour). VICTORIA. BALA~CLAVA. *Agar Wynne (Libeial), re-elected. George J. Mead (Labour). BALLARAT. •Alfred Deakin (Liberal), leading by 607. b * David P. Russell (Labour). BATMAN. Henry E. Beard (Labour), elected. Mabez Coon (Liberal). 3ENDIGO. •Sir John Quick (Liberal), leading by 544. Fraiik brennan (Labour). BOURKE. Frank Anstey (Labour), elected. •James Hume Cook (Liberal). CORANGAMITE. James H. Scullin (Labour), practically certain. •John G. Wilson (Liberal). FAWKNER. •George Fairbaivn (Liberal), re-elected. Joseph F. Hannan (Labour). KOOYONG. •William Knox (Liberal), safe. Alfrod G. Lanwden (Independent). MELBOURNE PORTS. •James Matthews (Labour), re-elected. Alex. G. C. Ramsay (Liberal). YARRA. •Frank O. Tudor (Labour), reflected. Elie-ha C. de Garis (Liberal). QUEENSLAND. BRISBANE. W. F. Finlayson (Labour), elected. •J. F. G. Foxton (Liberal) DARLING DOWNS. •L. E. Groom (Liberal), safe. M. Harwand (Labour). WIDE BAY. •Andrew Fisher (Labour), leading by 600. Jacob Stumm (Liberal). SOUTH AUSTRALIA. ANGAB. •P. M. Glynn, Attorney-General, returned unopposed. GREY. •Alex. Poynton (Labour), returned unopposed. HINDMARSH. W. 0. Archibald (Labour), returned unopposed. BOOTHBY. •E L. Batthelor (Labour), return safe-, WESTERN AUSTRALIA. SWAN. •Sir John Forrest, Federal Trea«urer, is leading. P. L. O'Loughlin (Labour).

STATE OFJ>ARTIES. The state of parties (subject to changes when the final returns come in) —changes which may improve tho position of the Liberals— is : — LABOUR 45 LIBERAL 30 [The state of parties in the House after the election in December, 1906, was: — Anti-Socialists, 32; Labour, 26; Ministerialists (Deakinites), 17.] THE SENATE. in the election for Senators (18) tho Labour Party is leading in all the State*. THE LABOUR LEADER. The Hon. Andrew Fisher, the coming Prime Minister, was born at Crosshouse, Ayrshire, Scotland, on 29th August, 1862, and arrived in Queensland in 1885. In that State he was engaged in mining for several years. Elected a member of the Legislative Assembly for Gympie in 1893 and 1899, he was Secretary for Railways and Minister of Public Works in the Dawson Government (1899). He was returned to the first House of Representatives for Wide Bay, Queensland, in 1901, and re-elected in 1903 and 1906 ; was Minister of Trade and Customs in thb Watson Ministry in 1904, became deputy-leader 'of the Labour Party, in October, 1907, and was later elected Chairman of the Party in succession to the Hon. J. C. Watson, who had voluntarily retired from politics. He formed a Labour Ministry after the defeat of Mr. Deakin in November, 1908, but bU Government was defeated in May, 1909. [Later results appear on page 7 of this Usue ]