ELECTIONS TO THE TASMANIAN LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL ==================================================================== ELECTIONS IN 1896 ==================================================================== BUCKINGHAM ==================================================================== Nominations 30 April 1896 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Frederick W PIESSE * Unopposed -------------------------------------------------------------------- Frederick William Piesse (1848-1902): Elected 1894 by, 1896 Resigned 7 May 1901: See by-election Later career: MHR for Tasmania 1901-02 Died 6 March 1902 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Minister without office 12 October 1899 to 7 May 1901 -------------------------------------------------------------------- HOBART ==================================================================== Following the resignation of Alexander McGregor -------------------------------------------------------------------- Nominations 25 April, polling 5 May 1896 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Gamaliel H BUTLER 570 73.3 George S Seabrook 208 26.7 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 778 23.3 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Seabrook was the father of Alfred Seabrook, MHA and MHR. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Gamaliel Henry Butler (1854-1914): Elected 1896 by Born: 5 June 1854, Hobart Career: Educated London. Surgeon, Hobart General Hospital. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Hughes and Graham record Butler as being elected unopposed, but the newspaper reports (eg, Launceston Examiner, 6 May 1896) show this to be incorrect. MACQUARIE ==================================================================== Nominations 30 April, polling 5 May 1896 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert C Kermode 88 42.3 Alfred PAGE * 120 57.7 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 208 07.7 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Kermode was the son of Hon Robert Q Kermode, MHA and MLC. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Alfred Page (1843-1911): Elected 1887 by, 1890, 1896 -------------------------------------------------------------------- SOUTH ESK ==================================================================== Nominations 30 May 1896 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- James GIBSON * Unopposed -------------------------------------------------------------------- James Gibson (1829-1906): Elected 1886 by, 1890, 1896 Resigned March 1899 Died 15 July 1906 --------------------------------------------------------------------