 parliamentarians) demanded of him.At the 1938 election, Doug, as a "Labor" candidate, independent of the A.L.P., contested and won the seat of Adelaide, which had become a single-member electorate.He was one of 14 of 39 lower house MPs at the election to be elected as an independent, which as a grouping won 40 percent of the primary vote, more than either of the major parties.