1935 Fawkner by-election

A by-election was held for the Australian House of Representatives seat of Fawkner on 17 August 1935. This was triggered by the death of United Australia Party (UAP) MP George Maxwell.

1935 Fawkner by-election
17 August 1935
The Fawkner seat in the House of Representatives
Turnout41,973 (87.4%)
  First party Second party
 
Candidate Harold Holt Don Cameron
Party United Australia Labor
Popular vote 24,594 16,433
Percentage 59.9% 40.1%
Swing 6.6 12.4
MP before election

George Maxwell
United Australia

 Elected MP

Harold Holt
United Australia

The by-election was won by UAP candidate and future Prime Minister Harold Holt.

Results
Fawkner by-election, 1935[1]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
United Australia Harold Holt 24,594 59.9 -6.6
Labor Don Cameron 16,433 40.1 +12.4
Total formal votes 41,027 97.7
Informal votes 946 2.3
Turnout 41,973 87.4
United Australia hold Swing-9.5
gollark: WHY(JIT) is capable of arbitrary IO.
gollark: Er, you'd need to sandbox it.
gollark: ```python#!/usr/bin/env python3import argparseimport subprocessimport randomimport stringparser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="Compile a WHY program using WHYJIT.")parser.add_argument("input", help="File containing WHY source code")parser.add_argument("-o", "--output", help="Filename of the output executable to make", default="./a.why")parser.add_argument("-O", "--optimize", help="Optimization level", type=int, default="0")args = parser.parse_args()def randomword(length): letters = string.ascii_lowercase return ''.join(random.choice(letters) for i in range(length))def which(program): proc = subprocess.run(["which", program], stdout=subprocess.PIPE) if proc.returncode == 0: return proc.stdout.replace(b"\n", b"") else: return Nonedef find_C_compiler(): compilers = ["gcc", "clang", "tcc", "cc"] for compiler in compilers: path = which(compiler) if path != None: return pathdef build_output(code, mx): C_code = f"""#define QUITELONG long long intconst QUITELONG max = {mx};int main() {{ volatile QUITELONG i = 0; // disable some "optimizations" that RUIN OUR BEAUTIFUL CODE! while (i < max) {{ i++; }} {code}}} """ heredoc = randomword(100) devnull = "2>/dev/null" shell_script = f"""#!/bin/shTMP1=/tmp/ignore-meTMP2=/tmp/ignore-me-tooTMP3=/tmp/dont-look-here cat << {heredoc} > $TMP1{C_code}{heredoc}sed -e '1,/^exit \$?$/d' "$0" > $TMP3chmod +x $TMP3$TMP3 -x c -o $TMP2 $TMP1chmod +x $TMP2$TMP2exit $?""".encode("utf-8") with open(find_C_compiler(), "rb") as f: return shell_script + f.read()input = args.inputoutput = args.outputwith open(input, "r") as f: contents = f.read() looplen = max(1000, (2 ** -args.optimize) * 1000000000) code = build_output( contents, looplen ) with open(output, "wb") as out: out.write(code)```
gollark: I mean, it uses (y, x) coordinates, if I remember correctly!
gollark: Where n = infinity.

References
  1. "By-Elections 1934-1937". Psephos.
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