ELECTIONS TO THE TASMANIAN LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL ==================================================================== ELECTIONS IN 1907 ==================================================================== DERWENT ==================================================================== Nominations 20 April 1907 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Ellis DEAN * Unopposed -------------------------------------------------------------------- Ellis Dean (1854-1920): Elected 1901, 1907 -------------------------------------------------------------------- TAMAR ==================================================================== Nominations 26 April, polling 7 May 1907 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Thomas V Brown 130 32.3 Hon George T COLLINS * 273 67.7 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 403 -------------------------------------------------------------------- George Thomas Collins (1839-1926): Elected 1895. Accepted office 1899. Elected 1899 by, 1901, 1907 -------------------------------------------------------------------- WESTMORLAND ==================================================================== Nominations 26 April, polling 7 May 1907 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- John W CHEEK 225 38.1 John B Gibson 217 36.7 William Hartnoll 149 25.2 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 591 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Gibson was MHA for North Eask 1903-06. 2. Hartnoll was MHA for Launceston South 1884-97, for Launceston 1897-1902, MHR for Tasmania 1902-03. -------------------------------------------------------------------- John William Cheek (1855-1942): Elected 1907 Born: 15 February 1855, at sea Career: Farmer. Evandale Municipal Council. Father of Thomas L Cheek MLC. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Cheek retired at the 1913 election. Later career: see Westmorland 1919 by-election. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Member of the Executive Council without Office 20 October 1909 to 27 October 1909 --------------------------------------------------------------------