ELECTIONS TO THE TASMANIAN LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL ==================================================================== ELECTIONS IN 1862 ==================================================================== SOUTH ESK ==================================================================== Following the resignation of Philip H Gell -------------------------------------------------------------------- Nominations 12 December 1862 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Frederick M INNES Unopposed -------------------------------------------------------------------- Innes was MHA for Morven 1856-62. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Frederick Maitland Innes (1816-82): Elected 1856, 1859, 1861. Resigned 1862. Elected 1862. Resigned November 1872: see by-election Later career: See House of Assembly, Selby 1872 -------------------------------------------------------------------- President of the Legislative Council 25 August 1868 to 4 November 1872 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Cornwall Chronicle, 13 December 1862 TAMAR ==================================================================== Following the resignation of Hon William Henty -------------------------------------------------------------------- Nominations, 18 December polling 23 December 1862 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Sir Richard DRY 108 58.4 Alexander Stewart 77 41.6 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 185 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Dry was MLC for Launceston 1851-55. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Dry (1815-69): Elected 1851. Resigned 1855. Elected 1862. Resigned on acceptance of office 1866: see by-election -------------------------------------------------------------------- Premier and Colonial Secretary 24 November 1866 to 1 August 1869 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Dry was the first Premier born in Tasmania. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Hobart Mercury, 19 December 1862