ELECTIONS TO THE TASMANIAN LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL ==================================================================== ELECTIONS IN 1897 ==================================================================== CAMBRIDGE ==================================================================== Nominations 4 May 1897 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Charles E DAVIES Unopposed -------------------------------------------------------------------- Charles Ellis Davies (1847-1921): Elected 1897 Born: 13 May 1847, NSW Career: To Tas as child. Business manager. Part-owber, Hobart Mercury. Son of John Davies MHA, brother of John G Davies MHA. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Launceston Examiner, 5 May 1897 HOBART ==================================================================== Nominations 28 April, polling 6 May 1897 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 1,232 Total votes cast: 906 73.5 Informal votes: 2 00.2 Formal votes: 904 99.8 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Samuel Benjamin 342 37.8 William CROSBY * 562 62.2 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 904 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Benjamin was a Hobart alderman and leader of the Hobart Jewish community. -------------------------------------------------------------------- William Crosby (1832-1910): Elected 1885 by, 1891, 1897 --------------------------------------------------------------------