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Electoral results for the Division of Burke (1949–1955)

Australian division election results

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 17, 2024
Entity authorityQ5356474 ↗
Source-derived summary

This is a list of electoral results for the Division of Burke in Australian federal elections from the division's creation in 1949 until its abolition in 1955.

Members

Election results

Elections in the 1950s

1954

1951

Elections in the 1940s

1949

References

Australian Electoral Commission.

Editorial summary

“Electoral results for the Division of Burke (1949–1955)” enters the record as australian division election results. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Electoral, results and Division can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewMost valuable as an event-and-institution map that identifies actors, dates and record creators for deeper historical inquiry. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1949, 1955, 1954, 1951—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Electoral, results and Division.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Electoral results for the Division of Burke (1949–1955)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Electoral, results and Division provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The record creator and administrative purpose are central evidence, because official documentation reflects both action and institutional priorities. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 17, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q5356474. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1949, 1955, 1954 and 1951.

Critical limits

Institutional narratives can privilege the records that survived while minimizing voices that were never formally collected. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Compare institutional narratives with records created by participants and affected communities. Dates and formal titles are useful anchors, but not substitutes for context.

Best used for
  • Event chronology
  • Institutional context
  • Locating named record creators
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Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Electoral results for the Division of Burke (1949–1955)”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Electoral results for the Division of Burke (1949–1955) primary sources, Electoral results for the Division of Burke (1949–1955) archive and Electoral research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

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  2. What chronology connects this entry to wider political or social change?
  3. Which voices are present, absent or mediated by the institution?
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This entry incorporates text from “Electoral results for the Division of Burke (1949–1955)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.