ELECTIONS TO THE TASMANIAN LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL ==================================================================== ELECTIONS IN 1890 ==================================================================== BUCKINGHAM ==================================================================== Nominations May, polling 6 May 1890 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 545 Total votes cast: 405 74.3 Informal votes: 11 02.7 Formal votes: 403 97.3 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Hon Nicholas J Brown 177 43.9 Hon Phillip O FYSH * 226 56.1 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 403 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Brown was MHA for Cumberland 1875-1903. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Philip Oakley Fysh (1835-1919): Elected 1866. Resigned 1869. Elected 1870 by. Accepted office 1873. Elected 1873, 1877. Resigned 1878. Elected 1884 by. Accepted office 1887. Elected 1887 by, 1890 Resigned May 1894 Later career: MHA for North Hobart 1894-97, for Hobart 1897-98. MHR for Tasmania 1901-03, for Denison 1903-10. Died 20 December 1919 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Treasurer 14 April 1894 to 30 December 1898 Postmaster-General 14 April 1894 to 30 December 1898-------------------------------------------------------------------- CAMBRIDGE ==================================================================== Following the death of John Lord -------------------------------------------------------------------- Nominations 24 January 1890 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Alfred E LORD Unopposed -------------------------------------------------------------------- Lord was MHA for Brighton 1885-86. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Alfred Edwin Lord (1858-1905): Elected 1885. Retired 1886. Elected 1890 by -------------------------------------------------------------------- Launceston Examiner, 28 January 1890 LAUNCESTON ==================================================================== Following the death of John Scott -------------------------------------------------------------------- Nominations 17 June 1890 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Hon Adye DOUGLAS Unopposed -------------------------------------------------------------------- Douglas was MLC for Launceston 1855-56, MHA for Launceston 1856-57, for Westbury 1862-71, for Norfolk Plains 1871-72, for Fingal 1872-84, MLC for South Esk 1884-86. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Adye Douglas (1815-1906): Elected 1855, 1856. Resigned 1857. Elected 1862, 1866, 1871, 1872, 1877, 1882. Resigned 1884. Elected 1884. Resigned 1886. Elected 1886. -------------------------------------------------------------------- MACQUARIE ==================================================================== Nominations 1 May, polling 6 May 1890 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 282 Total votes cast: 157 55.7 Informal votes: 1 00.6 Formal votes: 156 99.4 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- George W Keach 68 43.6 Alfred PAGE * 88 56.4 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 156 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Keach was MHA for Campbell Town 1870-82. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Alfred Page (1843-1911): Elected 1887 by, 1890 -------------------------------------------------------------------- SOUTH ESK ==================================================================== Nominations 3 May 1890 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- James GIBSON * Unopposed -------------------------------------------------------------------- James Gibson (1829-1906): Elected 1886 by, 1890 --------------------------------------------------------------------