ELECTIONS TO THE TASMANIAN LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL ==================================================================== ELECTIONS IN 1901 ==================================================================== BUCKINGHAM ==================================================================== Following the resignation of Federick W Piesse -------------------------------------------------------------------- Nominations April, polling 7 May 1901 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 1,085 Total votes cast: 763 70.3 Informal votes: 9 01.2 Formal votes: 754 98.8 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Samuel Benjamin 293 38.9 Tetley GANT 461 61.1 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 754 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Benjamin was a Hobart alderman and leader of the Hobart Jewish community. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Tetley Gant (1854-1928): Elected 1901 by Born: 19 July 1854, England Career: Educated Oxford University. To Tas 1884. Lawyer. -------------------------------------------------------------------- DERWENT ==================================================================== Nominations 28 April, polling 7 May 1901 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 500 Total votes cast: 384 Informal votes: Formal votes: 384 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Ellis DEAN 218 56.8 Hon Walter A B Gellibrand * 166 43.2 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 384 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Walter Angus Bethune Gellibrand (1832-1909): Elected 1871, 1877, 1883, 1889, 1895. Defeated 1901 Died 5 November 1909 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Ellis Dean (1854-1920): Elected 1901 Born: 1 July 1854, Macquarie Plains Career: Farmer. Various official posts. -------------------------------------------------------------------- HOBART ==================================================================== Following the death of Charles H Grant -------------------------------------------------------------------- Nominations 15 October, polling 22 October 1901 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 1,536 Total votes cast: 984 64.0 Informal votes: 3 00.3 Formal votes: 981 99.7 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Alfred Crisp 352 35.9 George S Crouch 198 20.2 William G GIBSON 431 43.9 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 981 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Crisp was MHA for North Hobart 1886-97, 1897-1901, and was Mayor of Hobart 1888-89. 2. Crouch was Mayor of Hobart 1893. -------------------------------------------------------------------- William George Gibson(1848-1905): Elected 1901 by Born: 1848, England Career: To VDL 1855. Miller. -------------------------------------------------------------------- MERSEY ==================================================================== Following the death of Hon John McCall -------------------------------------------------------------------- Nominations 8 August, polling 16 August 1901 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- John HENRY 337 55.8 Henry Murray 267 44.2 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 604 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Henry was MHA for East Devon 1891-97, Devonport 1897-98 2. Murray was MHA for East Devon 1891-97, Latrobe 1897-98, Devonport 1898-1900, Latrobe 1902-09. -------------------------------------------------------------------- John Henry (1834-1912): Elected 1891, 1893, 1897, 1901 by Resigned June 1902 Died 14 September 1912 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Launceston Daily Telegraph, 17 August 1901 This election is not recorded in Hughes and Graham. TAMAR ==================================================================== Nominations 29 April 1901 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Hon George T COLLINS * Unopposed -------------------------------------------------------------------- George Thomas Collins (1839-1926): Elected 1895. Accepted office 1899. Elected 1899 by, 1901 -------------------------------------------------------------------- WESTMORLAND ==================================================================== Nominations 28 April 1901 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- William DODERY * Unopposed -------------------------------------------------------------------- William Dodery (1819-1912): Elected 1861, 1866. Resigned 1870. Elected 1877 by, 1883, 1889, 1895, 1901 Dodery retired at the 1907 election. Died 26 January 1912 --------------------------------------------------------------------