Talk:1944 South Australian state election

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19% Communist vote in Adelaide[edit]

I thought i'd dig around the Jaensch PDF we now use as the SA elections ref to see what the highest Communist Party of Australia vote was - 19.4% in Adelaide in 1944 for candidate Alf Watt. Upon googling him and the election it seems there's quite a bit of info about him, and the contest, on nla.gov.au and other sites. Anyone interested in expanding this article or the party article, or creating Alf Watt (as opposed to British Communist Alf Watts...!)? There seems to be quite a bit of material for Watt. Seems to be quite an interesting but little-known area here. I particularly find fascinating the way Labor and the Communists referred to each other. Have a read. Timeshift (talk) 05:49, 14 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

He came up when I was doing a run-through of all candidates for federal elections to check them for notability (currently on hiatus in the 60s). I couldn't find quite enough to convince me that he was definitely notable. However my searches were all only online and did not dig deeply into Trove or print sources, which may well provide more info to support notability. The 19.4% is interesting, and a very impressive CPA result, but I wouldn't say that guarantees notability by itself. I also found the way Labor referred to the CPA in that article interesting, but then the USSR was our ally at the time. Frickeg (talk) 13:06, 14 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I'd say he's notable: Google turns up a memoir and a bunch of interesting references (amongst them, that article that has lots about his role in the disintegration of the Communist Party), and he has hundreds of Trove hits. I'm not interested enough to write it, though - I tend to be less interested in Cold War-era politics than either what came before or after. The Drover's Wife (talk) 14:55, 14 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Same RE level of Cold War-era interest. Timeshift (talk) 00:49, 15 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]