ELECTIONS TO THE TASMANIAN LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL ==================================================================== ELECTIONS IN 1898 ==================================================================== HOBART ==================================================================== Nominations 27 April 1898 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Gamaliel H BUTLER * Unopposed -------------------------------------------------------------------- Gamaliel Henry Butler (1854-1914): Elected 1896 by, 1898 -------------------------------------------------------------------- LAUNCESTON ==================================================================== Nominations 27 April 1898 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Hon Adye DOUGLAS * Unopposed -------------------------------------------------------------------- Adye Douglas (1815-1906): Elected 1855, 1856. Resigned 1857. Elected 1862, 1866, 1871, 1872, 1877, 1882. Resigned 1884. Elected 1884. Resigned 1886. Elected 1886, 1892, 1898 -------------------------------------------------------------------- President of the Legislative Council -------------------------------------------------------------------- NORTH ESK ==================================================================== Nominations 28 April 1898 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Henry I J R ROOKE * Unopposed -------------------------------------------------------------------- Henry Isadore Joachim Raphael Rooke (1845-1901): Elected 1882, 1886, 1892, 1898 Died 28 November 1901: No by-election was held since the district was abolished at the 1901 redistriburtion. --------------------------------------------------------------------