ELECTIONS TO THE TASMANIAN LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL ==================================================================== ELECTIONS IN 1917 ==================================================================== HOBART ==================================================================== Nominations 26 April 1917 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Thomas Murdoch 1,354 42.1 Hon William B PROPSTING * 1,859 57.9 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 3,213 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Murdoch was MLC for Hobart 1914-16. -------------------------------------------------------------------- William Bispham Propsting (1861-1937): Elected 1899, 1900, 1903. Resigned 1905. Elected 1905 by, 1911, 1917 -------------------------------------------------------------------- MEANDER ==================================================================== Nominations 26 April 1917 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- John HOPE * Unopposed -------------------------------------------------------------------- John Hope (1842-1926): Elected 1900, 1903, 1906, 1909, 1911, 1917 -------------------------------------------------------------------- PEMBROKE ==================================================================== Nominations 26 April, 8 May 1917 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Harry M Hood 167 18.6 James MURDOCH * 556 62.1 Silas T Tinning 172 19.2 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 895 21.5 -------------------------------------------------------------------- James Murdoch (1851-1925): Elected 1903 by, 1905, 1911, 1917 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Launceston Examiner, 11 May 1917