COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA LEGISLATIVE ELECTION OF 29-30 MARCH 1901 ==================================================================== HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ==================================================================== VOTING BY CONSTITUENCY ==================================================================== TASMANIA ==================================================================== Five members to be elected -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 39,528 Votes cast: 18,575 47.0 Informal votes: 533 02.9 Formal votes: 18,041 97.1 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- David Blanchard 140 00.8 Rt Hon Sir Edward BRADDON FT 4,720 26.2 Donald CAMERON FT 2,092 11.6 Charles Fenton Prot 942 05.2 Hon Sir Philip FYSH Prot 1,794 09.9 William Hartnoll FT 1,430 07.9 King O'MALLEY 3,940 21.9 Frederick PIESSE FT 1,816 10.1 J C Whitelaw Prot 1,167 06.5 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 18,041 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Tasmania had not been divided into electoral divisions in 1901 and the state voted as a single electorate, with each elector casting one vote. The five candidates with the highest votes were elected. 2. The combined Free Trade vote was 65.7%. 3. The combined Protectionist vote was 33.5% (counting O'Malley) 4. Fenton was Tas MHA for Wellington 1886-97. 5. For Hartnoll, see Tasmania 1902 by-election. 6. O'Malley may be classed as either Protectionist or Labour. There was no Labour Party in Tasmania in 1901. He joined the Labour Caucus when the Parliament met. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Edward Nicholas Coventry Braddon (1829-1904): Elected 1901 Born: 11 June 1829, Cornwall, England. Career: Educated privately and University College, London. Businessman, soldier and civil servant, India, 1847-1878. Migrated 1878. Grazier, businessman and investor. Colonial politics: Tas MHA for West Devon 1879-88, 1893-1901. Minister for Lands and Works 1887-88, Minister for Education 1887- 88, Premier 1894-99. Delegate to Federal Convention 1897. Braddon contested Wilmot in 1903. Donald Norman Cameron (1851-1931): Elected 1901 Born: 3 November 1851, Launceston, Tasmania. Career: Educated Glenalmond College, Scotland, and St Andrews University. Returned to Tasmania 1870. Landowner and grazier. Brother of Senator Hon Cyril Cameron. Colonial politics: Tas MHA for Deloraine 1893-94 1897-99. Cameron contested Denison in 1903. Philip Oakley Fysh (1835-1919): Elected 1901 Born: 1 March 1835, London, England, Career: Primary education. Clerk. Migrated 1859. Businessman, hop-grower and orchardist. Colonial politics: Tas MLC for Hobart 1866-69, Buckingham 1870-73 1884-90, Tas MHA for East Hobart 1873-78, North Hobart 1894-99. Premier 1877-78 1887-92, Chief Secretary 1887-92. Delegate to Federal Conventions 1891 and 1897. Minister without portfolio 26 April 1901 to 10 August 1903 Postmaster-General from 10 August 1903 Fysh contested Denison in 1903. King O'Malley (1856-1953): Elected 1901 Born: 2 July 1858, Maine, United States. Career: Educated New York, worked in bank. Migrated 1889. Insurance agent, South Australia. To Tasmania 1900. Colonial politics: SA MHA for Encounter Bay 1896-99. O'Malley contested Darwin in 1903. Frederick William Piesse (1848-1902): Elected 1901 Born: 10 December 1848, Hobart. Career: Educated commercial academy. Lawyer, conveyancer. Later shipping broker and horticulturalist. Colonial politics: Tas MHA for North Hobart 1893-94, Tas MLC for Buckingham 1894-1901. Honorary Minister 1899-1901. Died 6 March 1902 (see by-elections) -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Braddon was the oldest member of the First Parliament. He was born six years before Melbourne, where the first federal Parliament met, was founded. 2. Fysh was personally a free trader, but his acceptance of office in Barton's ministry leads him to be classed as a Protectionist. 3. O'Malley claimed to have been born in Canada, but was in fact born in Maine, United States. He was therefore ineligible to sit in the South Australian and Commonwealth parliaments. --------------------------------------------------------------------