ELECTIONS TO THE TASMANIAN LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL ==================================================================== ELECTIONS IN 1889 ==================================================================== DERWENT ==================================================================== Nominations 2 May, polling 4 May 1889 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Hon Walter A B GELLIBRAND * 89 54.9 Ebenezer Shoobridge 73 45.1 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 162 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Shoobridge was MHA for New Norfolk 1882-86. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Walter Angus Bethune Gellibrand (1832-1909): Elected 1871, 1877, 1883, 1889 -------------------------------------------------------------------- President of the Legislative Council to 9 July 1889 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Hobart Mercury, 8 May 1889 TAMAR ==================================================================== Nominations 3 May, polling 7 May 1889 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Audley COOTE * 85 53.5 Isaac Noake 74 46.5 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 159 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Audley Coote (1839-1915): Elected 1879 by, 1882, 1886, 1889 Resigned May 1895: see by-election Died 4 June 1915 -------------------------------------------------------------------- The Tasmanian, 11 May 1889 WESTMORLAND ==================================================================== Nominations 2 May 1889, polling 7 May 1889 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- William DODERY * Unopposed -------------------------------------------------------------------- Dodery was MHA for Norfolk Plains 1861-70, MLC for Longford 1877-89. -------------------------------------------------------------------- William Dodery (1819-1912): Elected 1861, 1866. Resigned 1870. Elected 1877 by, 1883, 1889 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Launceston Examiner, 11 May 1889