Lyne by-election, 1952
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The 1952 by-election for the Australian House of Representatives
seat of Lyne
was called on 22 March after the death of the incumbent Country Party of Australia member James Eggins
who died in office on 28 January.
, who had stood as one of multiple Country Party candidates for the seat at the 1949 election .
Their main opponent was Edward Hayes of the Australian Labor Party
. He had been the Labor party candidate at several previous polls .
Two independents, Edward Spensley and Joseph Cordner, also stood for the seat.
who had ascended to the throne on 6 February.
At the following Federal election in 1954
Lancaster stood as the Labor Party candidate against his former Country Party colleague.
Australian House of Representatives
The House of Representatives is one of the two houses of the Parliament of Australia; it is the lower house; the upper house is the Senate. Members of Parliament serve for terms of approximately three years....
seat of Lyne
Division of Lyne
The Division of Lyne is an Australian electoral division located in the State of New South Wales. It lies on the Mid North Coast of New South Wales and includes the Local Government Areas of Gloucester, Greater Taree, Port Macquarie-Hastings and southern Kempsey...
was called on 22 March after the death of the incumbent Country Party of Australia member James Eggins
James Eggins
Eldred James "Jim" Eggins was an Australian politician and a member of the Country Party of Australia.Jim Eggins was born at Grafton, New South Wales and educated in state schools. He served in the military in 1918 and later grew bananas in the Brunswick River region, and was a seed merchant in...
who died in office on 28 January.
Candidates
Contesting the seat for the Country Party were Donald Lancaster and Philip LucockPhilip Lucock
Philip Ernest Lucock, CBE was an English born Presbyterian minister and politician. Although he was born in England, he spent most of his life in Australia.-Early life:...
, who had stood as one of multiple Country Party candidates for the seat at the 1949 election .
Their main opponent was Edward Hayes of the Australian Labor Party
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...
. He had been the Labor party candidate at several previous polls .
Two independents, Edward Spensley and Joseph Cordner, also stood for the seat.
Results
The presence of two Country Party candidates split the vote and Hayes took three thousand votes more than either Lucock or Lancaster, but with preferences from Lancaster, Lucock easily won the seat .Aftermath
When Philip Lucock was sworn in as the member for Lyne on 22 March 1952, he became the first member of the House of Representatives to swear allegiance to Queen Elizabeth IIElizabeth II of the United Kingdom
Elizabeth II is the constitutional monarch of 16 sovereign states known as the Commonwealth realms: the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Jamaica, Barbados, the Bahamas, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Belize,...
who had ascended to the throne on 6 February.
At the following Federal election in 1954
Australian federal election, 1954
Federal elections were held in Australia on 29 May 1954. All 121 seats in the House of Representatives were up for election, no Senate election took place...
Lancaster stood as the Labor Party candidate against his former Country Party colleague.