ELECTIONS TO THE TASMANIAN LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL ==================================================================== ELECTIONS IN 1912 ==================================================================== HUON ==================================================================== Nominations 25 April, polling 7 May 1912 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 1,875 Total votes cast: 356 Informal votes: Formal votes: 356 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Hon Bolton S BIRD * 777 68.6 Richard Geeves 356 31.4 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 1,133 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Bolton Stafford Bird (1840-1924): Elected 1882, 1886, 1891, 1893, 1897, 1900. Defeated 1903. Elected 1904, 1906, 1909, 1912 -------------------------------------------------------------------- LAUNCESTON ==================================================================== Nominations 7 May 1912 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Charles RUSSEN * Unopposed -------------------------------------------------------------------- Charles Russen (1850-1914): Elected 1904 by, 1906, 1910 Died 11 December 1914: See by-election -------------------------------------------------------------------- Member of the Executive Council without Office 14 June 1912 to 6 April 1914 -------------------------------------------------------------------- MERSEY ==================================================================== Nominations 1 May, polling 7 May 1912 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 1,845 Total votes cast: 1,065 57.7 Informal votes: 24 02.3 Formal votes: 1,041 97.7 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Hubert A NICHOLS * 737 70.8 H A Vertigan 304 39.2 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 1,041 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Hubert Allan Nichols (1864-1940): Elected 1902 by, 1906, 1912 --------------------------------------------------------------------