COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA LEGISLATIVE ELECTION OF 29-30 MARCH 1901 ==================================================================== HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ==================================================================== VOTING BY CONSTITUENCY ==================================================================== SOUTH AUSTRALIA ==================================================================== Seven members to be elected, each elector casting up to seven votes -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 154,281 Votes cast: 62,982 40.8 Informal votes: 985 01.6 Formal votes: 61,997 98.4 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- H C Baker FT 15,760 25.1 Lee BATCHELOR Lab 31,614 50.3 Sir Langdon BONYTHON Prot 39,434 62.7 Robert Caldwell Prot 21,102 33.6 John Cooke Prot 8,947 14.2 Patrick GLYNN FT 37,450 59.5 Hon Frederick HOLDER FT 37,424 59.5 Rt Hon Charles KINGSTON Prot 41,477 65.9 G Mitchell 1,745 02.8 J O'Connell Prot 3,152 05.0 Alexander POYNTON FT 25,864 41.1 Tom Price Lab 24,019 8.2 Vaiben SOLOMON FT 27,030 43.0 Crawford Vaughan FT 11,874 18.9 T H Webb FT 9,357 14.9 Richard Wood FT 11,054 17.6 G A Wyld Prot 2,858 04.6 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 350,161 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. South Australia had not been divided into electoral divisions in 1901 and the state voted as a single electorate, with each elector casting up to seven votes. The seven candidates with the highest votes were elected. 2. The combined Free Trade vote was 50.2%. 3. The combined Protectionist vote was 33.4%. 4. The combined Labour vote was 15.9%. 5. Caldwell was SA MHA for Yorke Peninsula 1884-90, Onkaparinga 1890-92. 6. Cooke was SA MLC for Central No 2 1915-33. 7. Price was SA MHA for Sturt 1893-1902, Torrens 1902-09. He was Leader of the Labor Party 1900-09 and Premier of South Australia 1905-09. 8. Vaughan was SA MHA for Torrens 1905-15, Sturt 1915-18. He was Leader of the ALP 1909-16 and Premier of South Australia 1915-17. He left the ALP over conscription in 1916. 9. Wood was SA MHA for North Adelaide 1893-1902. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Egerton Lee Batchelor (1865-1911): Elected 1901 Born: 10 April 1865, Adelaide. Career: Educated public schools. Railways foreman, President Railways Union. President, United Labour Party. Colonial politics: SA MHA for West Adelaide 1893-1901. Minister for Education 1899-1901. Minister for Agriculture 1899-1901. Batchelor contested Boothby in 1903. John Langdon Bonython (1848-1939): Elected 1901 Born: 15 October 1848, London, England. Career: Migrated as child. Educated Brougham School, Adelaide. Journalist. Part-proprietor Adelaide Advertiser 1879, later sole owner. Prominent philanthropist, head of numerous organisations. Great-grandfather of Hon Ian Wilson MP. Bonython contested Barker in 1903. Patrick McMahon Glynn (1855-1931): Elected 1901 Born: 25 August 1855, Port Galway, Ireland. Career: Educated Trinity College, Dublin. Migrated 1880. Barrister. Colonial politics: SA MHA for Light 1887-1890, North Adelaide 1895- 96, 1897-1901. Attorney-General 1899. Delegate to Federal Convention 1897. Glynn contested Angas in 1903. Frederick William Holder (1850-1909): Elected 1901 Born: 12 May 1850, Happy Valley, South Australia. Career: Educated St Peters College, Adelaide. Teacher, newspaper proprietor, Burra. Burra Council. Colonial politics: SA MHA for Burra 1887-1901. Treasurer 1889-90, Premier and Treasurer 1892, Commissioner for Public Works 1893-94, Treasurer 1894-99, Premier and Treasurer 1899-1901. Minister for Industry 1899-1901. Delegate to Federal Convention 1897. Speaker of the House of Representatives from 9 May 1901. Holder contested Wakefield in 1903. Charles Cameron Kingston (1850-1908): Elected 1901 Born: 22 October 1850, Adelaide. Career: Educated J L Young's School. Barrister 1873. Prominent federalist, radical and social reformer. Kingston's father was the first European to visit the site of Adelaide. Colonial politics: SA MHA for West Adelaide 1881-1900, SA MLC for Central District 1900-01. Attorney-General 1884-85 1887-89 1893-99. Premier and Chief Secretary 1893-99. Minister for Industry 1895-99. Delegate to Federal Conventions 1891 and 1897. Minister for Trade and Customs 1 January 1901 to 24 July 1903 Kingston contested Adelaide in 1903. Alexander Poynton (1853-1935): Elected 1901 Born: 8 August 1853, Castlemaine, Victoria. Career: Primary education. Shearer, station-hand, miner. Formed South Australian Shearers Union 1888. Labour supporter but not party member. Colonial politics: SA MHA for Flinders 1893-1901. Commissioner for Crown Lands 1899. Poynton contested Grey in 1903. Vaiben Louis Solomon (1853-1908): Elected 1901 Born: 13 May 1853, Adelaide. Career: Educated J L Young's School, Adelaide. Businessman, press proprietor and stockbroker. To Northern Territory (then part of South Australia) 1873. Colonial politics: SA MHA for Northern Territory 1890-1901. Premier and Treasurer 1899. Delegate to Federal Convention 1897. Solomon contested Boothby in 1903. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Kingston resigned from the ministry after a disagreement with Barton about the Conciliation and Arbitration Bill. --------------------------------------------------------------------