Career
Sheehy defeated Boothby incumbent Grenfell Price at the landslide 1943 election on a 50.9 percent two-party vote from a 16.1 percent two-party swing. He retained the seat at the 1946 election on an increased two-party vote of 51.8 percent. With the increase in seats prior to the 1949 election, Boothby was significantly redistributed which saw Sheehy contest the newly created neighbouring seat of Kingston, however he was defeated with a 48.4 percent two-party vote by Liberal Jim Handby.
Labor lost Boothby from a 9.3 percent two-party swing.
