VICTORIA ==================================================================== LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL ==================================================================== ELECTION OF SEPTEMBER-NOVEMBER 1860 ==================================================================== Showing ministerial and parliamentary offices held in the period 4 September 1860 to 12 September 1862 VOTING BY PROVINCE ==================================================================== CENTRAL PROVINCE ==================================================================== Nominations 20 September, polling 28 September -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Hon George W COLE * Unopposed -------------------------------------------------------------------- George Ward Cole (1793-1879): Elected 1859 by, 1860 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Other members for Central Province 1860-62 -------------------------------------------------------------------- > Thomas Turner a'Beckett (1808-92): Elected 1858 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Minister without portfolio 26 November 1860 to 11 November 1861 -------------------------------------------------------------------- > John Pascoe Fawkner (1792-1869): Elected 1856 > Thomas Howard Fellows (1822-78): Elected 1858 by -------------------------------------------------------------------- Minister without portfolio 27 October 1859 to 26 November 1860 -------------------------------------------------------------------- > William Hull (1795-1874): Elected 1860 by -------------------------------------------------------------------- EASTERN PROVINCE ==================================================================== Nominations 5 October, polling 25 October -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Hon William HIGHETT * Unopposed -------------------------------------------------------------------- William Highett (1807-80): Elected 1857 by, 1860 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Other members for Eastern Province 1860-62 -------------------------------------------------------------------- > Matthew Hervey (1802-74): Elected 1856 > James Stewart (1820-63): Elected 1856 > Robert Thomson (1807-63): Elected 1856 > Benjamin Williams (1804-74): Elected 1856, 1858 -------------------------------------------------------------------- NORTH WESTERN PROVINCE ==================================================================== Nominations 18 October, polling 1 November -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Hon William H F MITCHELL * Unopposed -------------------------------------------------------------------- William Henry Fancourt Mitchell (1811-84): Elected 1856. Accepted office 1857. Elected 1857 by. Defeated 1858. Elected 1859 by, 1860 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Commissioner of Railways and Roads from 30 December 1861 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Other members for North Western Province 1860-62 -------------------------------------------------------------------- > Alexander Fraser (1802-88): Elected 1858 by > Francis Robertson (1825-86): Elected 1860 by > George Rolfe (1808-71): Elected 1860 by Rolfe retired in 1862 Later career: See South Western Province, 1866 > David Elliot Wilkie (1815-85): Elected 1858 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Minister without portfolio 26 November 1860 to 11 November 1861 -------------------------------------------------------------------- SOUTHERN PROVINCE ==================================================================== Nominations 18 September, polling 28 September -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- William DEGRAVES Unopposed -------------------------------------------------------------------- William Degraves (1821-83): Elected 1860 Born 1821, England Career: Migrated to VDL as child. To Melbourne 1849. Flour miller and merchant. Landowner, stockbreeder, company director, banker. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Other members for Southern Province 1860-62 -------------------------------------------------------------------- > John Barter Bennett (1824-87): Elected 1856, 1858 > William John Turner Clarke (1801-74): Elected 1856 Resigned January 1861 Later career: See Southern Province 1862 > Donald Kennedy (1810-64): Elected 1856 > Thomas Herbert Power (1801-73): Elected 1856 -------------------------------------------------------------------- SOUTH WESTERN PROVINCE ==================================================================== Nominations 27 September, polling 8 October -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Hon William C Haines 206 44.0 John McCRAE 262 56.0 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 468 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Haines was MLA for Grant South 1856-58 -------------------------------------------------------------------- John McCrae (1816-70): Elected 1860 Born c1816, Co Tyrone Ireland Career: Migrated 1841. Sadler and leather merchant. Squatter in Avoca and Murrumbidgee areas. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Other members for South Western Province 1860-62 -------------------------------------------------------------------- > George Selth Coppin (1819-1906): Elected 1858 > James Henty (1800-82): Elected 1856 > Robert Culbertson Hope (1812-78): Elected 1856 > James Ford Strachan (1810-75): Elected 1856 -------------------------------------------------------------------- WESTERN PROVINCE ==================================================================== Nominations 5 October, polling 15 October -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Hon Sir James F PALMER * Unopposed -------------------------------------------------------------------- > James Frederick Palmer (1803-71): Elected 1856, 1860 -------------------------------------------------------------------- President of the Legislative Council -------------------------------------------------------------------- Other members for Western Province 1860-62 -------------------------------------------------------------------- > Niel Black (1804-80): Elected 1859 by > Stephen George Henty (1811-72): Elected 1856 > Henry Miller (1809-88): Elected 1856. Accepted office 1858. Elected 1858 > Charles Vaughan (1811-64): Elected 1856, 1858 -------------------------------------------------------------------- BY-ELECTIONS 1860-62 ==================================================================== SOUTHERN PROVINCE ==================================================================== Nominations 21 January, polling 31 January 1861 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Following the resignation of William Clarke -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Joseph SUTHERLAND Unopposed -------------------------------------------------------------------- Joseph Sutherland (1800-75): Elected 1861 by Born 1800, Sutherlandshire Scotland Career: Migrated to VDL 1830s, pastoralist. To Port Phillip 1836, squatter near Geelong, then Kilmore. Businessman and company director. Sutherland retired in 1862 Died 29 April 1875 -------------------------------------------------------------------- NORTH WESTERN PROVINCE ==================================================================== Nominations 13 January, polling 27 January 1862 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Following acceptance of office by Hon William Mitchell -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Hon William H F MITCHELL Unopposed -------------------------------------------------------------------- William Henry Fancourt Mitchell (1811-84): Elected 1856. Accepted office 1857. Elected 1857 by. Defeated 1858. Elected 1859 by, 1860. Accepted office 1862. Elected 1862 by --------------------------------------------------------------------