COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA LEGISLATIVE ELECTION OF 29-30 MARCH 1901 ==================================================================== HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ==================================================================== BY-ELECTIONS 1901-1903 ==================================================================== DARLING DOWNS, Qld ==================================================================== SouthEast Queensland: Dalby, Pittsworth, Toowoomba, Warwick -------------------------------------------------------------------- 14 September 1901, following the death of Hon William Groom -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1901 majority: W H Groom over another independent protectionist 28.5 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: unknown Votes cast: unknown Informal votes: unknown Formal votes: 7,219 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- Joshua Bell 2,687 37.2 Littleton GROOM 4,532 62.8 -15.7 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 7,219 12.8 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Bell was Qld MLA for Dalby 1893-1911. 2. Groom campaigned as a supporter of the Barton ministry and joined the Protectionists upon election. His vote is compared with that of W H Groom at the 1901 elections. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Littleton Ernest Groom (1867-1936): Elected 1901 By Born: 22 April 1867, Toowoomba, Queensland. Career: Educated Toowoomba Grammar School, University of Melbourne. Lawyer, Crown Prosecutor, Acting Judge. Son of Hon William Groom MP. -------------------------------------------------------------------- TASMANIA ==================================================================== 6 March 1902, following the death of Hon Frederick Piesse ------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: unknown Votes cast: unknown Informal votes: unknown Formal votes: 12,014 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- Charles Hall 482 04.0 William HARTNOLL FT 6,956 57.9 John McCall 2,051 17.1 J C Whitelaw 2,525 21.0 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 12,014 18.5 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. The whole state voted as a single electorate (see Tasmania 1901) 2. Hall was Tas MHA for Waratah 1897-1903, Tas MLC for Russell 1909-21. 3. McCall was Tas MHA for West Devon 1888-93, 1901-09. -------------------------------------------------------------------- William Hartnoll (1841-1932): Elected 1902 By Born: 17 April 1841, Longford, Tasmania. Career: Educated Launceston Grammar School. Shopkeeper, auctioneer and landowner. Colonial/state politics: Tas MHA for South Launceston 1884-97, Launceston 1897-1902. Minister for Lands and Works 1892-94. Hartnoll contested Bass in 1903. -------------------------------------------------------------------- EAST SYDNEY, NSW ==================================================================== Inner Sydney: Darlinghurst, Glenmore, King, Redfern -------------------------------------------------------------------- 4 September 1903, following the resignation of Rt Hon George Reid ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1901 majority: Free Trade over Independent 22.3 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: unknown Votes cast: unknown Informal votes: unknown Formal votes: -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- J Blake 96 04.7 W E J Maguire 259 12.6 Rt Hon George REID FT 1,697 82.7 +20.7 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 2,052 35.1 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Reid was member for East Sydney 1901-03 -------------------------------------------------------------------- George Houston Reid (1848-1918): Elected 1901. Resigned 1903. Elected 1903 By Leader of the Opposition Leader of the Free Traders -------------------------------------------------------------------- For the circumstances of Reid's resignation, see East Sydney 1901. --------------------------------------------------------------------