1929 FLINDERS, Vic 65,873 enrolled, 63,338 (96.2%) voted ==================================================================== South-east of Melbourne: Box Hill, Dandenong, Ferntree Gully, Frankston -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1928 two-party majority: Nationalist over ALP 10.7 e -------------------------------------------------------------------- Rt Hon Stanley Bruce * Nat 30,054 48.1 (-11.3) Joseph Burch 2,267 03.6 Edward Holloway ALP 30,114 48.2 (+10.0) -------------------------------------------------------------------- 903 (01.4%) informal 62,435 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Burch was an independent Liberal candidate. -------------------------------------------------------------------- 2nd count: Burch's 2,267 votes distributed -------------------------------------------------------------------- Bruce * 1,011 (44.6) 31,065 49.8 HOLLOWAY 1,256 (55.4) 31,370 50.2 -------------------------------------------------------------------- > 2,267 62,435 00.2 10.9 to ALP -------------------------------------------------------------------- This is the only occasion on which a serving Prime Minister has lost his seat. -------------------------------------------------------------------- > Stanley Melbourne Bruce (1883-1967): Elected 1918 By, 1919, 1922, 1925, 1928. Defeated 1929 Prime Minister to 22 October 1929 Minister for External Affairs to 22 October 1929 Leader of the Nationalist Party to 20 November 1929 Later career: See Flinders 1931. > Edward James Holloway (1875-1967): Elected 1929 Born: 1875, Hobart, Tasmania. Career: No formal education. To Melbourne at 15. Miner, Broken Hill and Western Australia. Boot machinist, Melbourne. Official, Boot Trade Employees Union. President, Melbourne Trades Hall Council. Victorian and federal President of the ALP. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Assistant Minister for Industry, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research 3 March 1931 to 12 June 1931 Assistant to the Treasurer 3 March 1931 to 12 June 1931 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Holloway resigned from the Cabinet in protest at the government's acceptance of the Premiers' Plan for financial austerity. He contested Melbourne Ports in 1931. --------------------------------------------------------------------