ELECTIONS TO THE TASMANIAN LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL ==================================================================== ELECTIONS IN 1891 ==================================================================== CAMBRIDGE ==================================================================== Nominations 31 April, polling 5 May 1891 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Charles E Davies 106 43.3 Alfred E LORD * 139 56.7 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 245 06.7 -------------------------------------------------------------------- For Davies, see Cambridge 1897. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Alfred Edwin Lord (1858-1905): Elected 1885. Retired 1886. Elected 1890 by, 1891 Lord retired at the 1897 election. Died 11 October 1905 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Tasmanian News, 7 May 1891 HOBART ==================================================================== Nominations 5 May 1891 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- William CROSBY * Unopposed -------------------------------------------------------------------- William Crosby (1832-1910): Elected 1885 by, 1891 -------------------------------------------------------------------- PEMBROKE ==================================================================== Following the death of William Hodgson -------------------------------------------------------------------- Nominations 8 April 1891 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 308 Total votes cast: 205 66.6 Informal votes: 2 01.0 Formal votes: 202 99.0 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Henry LAMB 94 46.5 J W Lord 56 27.7 John Lyne 52 25.7 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 202 09.4 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Lamb was MHA for Clarence 1877-86. 2. Lyne was MHA for Glamorgan 1880-93. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Henry Lamb (1835-1903): Elected 1877, 1882. Elected 1891 by -------------------------------------------------------------------- RUSSELL ==================================================================== Nominations 5 May 1891 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Hon William MOORE Unopposed -------------------------------------------------------------------- Moore was MHA for Wellington 1871-77, MLC for Mersey 1877-85. -------------------------------------------------------------------- William Moore (1823-1914): Elected 1871, 1872, 1877, 1879, 1891 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Moore was most recently elected for Mersey in 1879. Following the 1885 redistribution, he was deemed to be the member for the new district of Russell, with a term to expire in 1891. (Daily Telegraph, Launceston, 7 October 1885.) --------------------------------------------------------------------