ELECTIONS TO THE TASMANIAN LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL ==================================================================== ELECTIONS IN 1911 ==================================================================== HOBART ==================================================================== Nominations 21 April, polling 2 May 1911 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 3,852 Total votes cast: 1,742 45.2 Informal votes: 69 04.0 Formal votes: 1,673 96.0 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Thomas H Amott 453 26.1 Hon William B PROPSTING * 1,220 73.9 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 1,673 23.9 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Amott was Mayor of Hobart 1911. -------------------------------------------------------------------- William Bispham Propsting (1861-1937): Elected 1899, 1900, 1903. Resigned 1905. Elected 1905 by, 1911 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Attorney-General 15 April 1916 to 14 August 1923 Minister for Railways 15 April 1916 to 12 August 1922 Minister for Education 15 June 1923 to 14 August 1923 -------------------------------------------------------------------- MEANDER ==================================================================== Nominations 21 April, polling 1 May 1911 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 1,657 Total votes cast: 967 58.4 Informal votes: 34 93.5 Formal votes: 933 96.5 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- William H Hartnoll 289 31.0 John HOPE 488 52.3 Henry Murray 156 16.7 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 933 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Hartnoll was MHA for South Launceston 1884-97, Launceston 1897- 1902, MHR for Tasmania 1902-03. 2. Hope was MHA for Devonport 1900-03, Kentish 1903-09, Wilmot 1909-11. 3. Murray was MHA for East Devon 1891-97, for Latrobe 1897-98, for Devonport 1898-1900, for Latrobe 1902-09. -------------------------------------------------------------------- John Hope (1842-1926): Elected 1900, 1903, 1906, 1909, 1911 -------------------------------------------------------------------- PEMBROKE ==================================================================== Nominations 21 April 1911 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- James MURDOCH * Unopposed -------------------------------------------------------------------- James Murdoch (1851-1925): Elected 1903 by, 1905, 1911 --------------------------------------------------------------------