VICTORIA ==================================================================== LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL ==================================================================== ELECTION OF SEPTEMBER-NOVEMBER 1864 ==================================================================== Showing ministerial and parliamentary offices held in the period 26 September 1864 to 4 September 1866 VOTING BY PROVINCE ==================================================================== CENTRAL PROVINCE ==================================================================== Nominations 20 September, polling 29 September -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- John P FAWKNER * Unopposed -------------------------------------------------------------------- John Pascoe Fawkner (1792-1869): Elected 1856, 1864 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Other members for Central Province 1864-66 -------------------------------------------------------------------- > Thomas Turner a'Beckett (1808-92): Elected 1858 > George Ward Cole (1793-1879): Elected 1859 by, 1860 > Thomas Howard Fellows (1822-78): Elected 1858 by, 1862 > William Hull (1795-1874): Elected 1860 by Hull retired in 1866 Died 15 December 1874 -------------------------------------------------------------------- EASTERN PROVINCE ==================================================================== Nominations 10 October, polling 24 October -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Henry M MURPHY 127 39.3 James Pinnock * 113 35.0 George Urquhart 83 25.7 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 323 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Urquhart was MLC for North Western Province 1856-60. -------------------------------------------------------------------- James Pinnock (1810-75): Elected 1863 by. Defeated 1864 Died 20 May 1875 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Henry Morgan Murphy (1815-91): Elected 1864 Born c1815, Dublin Career: Migrated to VDL 1854, then Melbourne. Merchant, Melbourne. Landowner and company director. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Other members for Eastern Province 1864-66 -------------------------------------------------------------------- > Matthew Hervey (1802-74): Elected 1856. Accepted office 1863. Elected 1863 by Resigned July 1865 Died 1 December 1874 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Vice-President of the Board of Land and Works to 22 July 1865 Commissioner of Public Works to 22 July 1865 -------------------------------------------------------------------- > William Highett (1807-80): Elected 1857 by, 1860 > Robert Turnbull (1819-72): Elected 1863 by > Benjamin Williams (1804-74): Elected 1856, 1858 -------------------------------------------------------------------- NORTH WESTERN PROVINCE ==================================================================== Nominations 19 October, polling 2 November -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Alexander Bayne 584 38.9 Nicholas FITZGERALD 622 41.4 Francis Robertson * 295 19.7 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 1,501 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Francis Robertson (1825-86): Elected 1860 by. Defeated 1864 Later career: See Eastern Province 1868 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Nicholas Fitzgerald (1829-1908): Elected 1864 Born 7 August 1829, Co Galway Ireland Career: Educated Trinity College Dublin. Barrister 1849. Migrated 1859. Established brewery, Castlemaine. Landowner, Catholic leader. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Other members for North Western Province 1864-66 -------------------------------------------------------------------- > William Campbell (1810-96: Elected 1862 > Alexander Fraser (1802-88): Elected 1858 by > 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 > David Elliot Wilkie (1815-85): Elected 1858 -------------------------------------------------------------------- SOUTHERN PROVINCE ==================================================================== Nominations 22 September, polling 3 October -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- William H PETTET 616 61.4 Thomas H Power * 388 38.6 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 1,004 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Thomas Herbert Power (1801-73): Elected 1856. Defeated 1864 Died 28 November 1873 -------------------------------------------------------------------- William Henry Pettet (1814-71): Elected 1864 Born 4 September 1814, Renfrewshire Scotland Career: Migrated to VDL, then Melbourne 1837. Explorer of Grampians area. Estate manager. Contractor, Melbourne. Hawthorn Council, mayor 1863. (His name appears as Pettett or Pettitt in some newspaper sources.) -------------------------------------------------------------------- Other members for Southern Province 1864-66 -------------------------------------------------------------------- > John Pinney Bear (1823-89): Elected 1863 by > William John Turner Clarke (1801-74): Elected 1856. Resigned 1861. Elected 1862 > William Degraves (1821-83): Elected 1860 > William Taylor (1818-1903): Elected 1864 by Taylor retired in 1866 Died 21 June 1903 -------------------------------------------------------------------- SOUTH WESTERN PROVINCE ==================================================================== Nominations 30 September, polling 11 October -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Robert C Hope * 170 19.4 John LOWE 708 80.6 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 878 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert Culbertson Hope (1812-78): Elected 1856. Defeated 1864 Later career: See South Western Province by-election 1867 -------------------------------------------------------------------- John Lowe (1813-67): Elected 1864 Born c1813, Cheshire England Career: Migrated to NSW, date unknown. To Geelong 1850s, butcher. Geelong Council. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Other members for South Western Province 1864-66 -------------------------------------------------------------------- > James Henty (1800-82): Elected 1856, 1862 > Caleb Joshua Jenner (1830-90): Elected 1863 by > John McCrae (1816-70): Elected 1860 > James Ford Strachan (1810-75): Elected 1856 Resigned June 1866 (no by-election held) Later career: See Western Province by election, below -------------------------------------------------------------------- Strachan resigned his seat in order to contest the by-election in Western Province caused by Henry Miller's appointment to the Ministry. No by-election was held because his term expired in September. -------------------------------------------------------------------- WESTERN PROVINCE ==================================================================== Nominations 7 October, polling 19 October -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Hon Henry MILLER * Unopposed -------------------------------------------------------------------- Henry Miller (1809-88): Elected 1856. Accepted office 1858. Elected 1858 by, 1864. Accepted office 1866 (see by-election, below) -------------------------------------------------------------------- Vice-president Board Land and Works from 18 July 1866 Commissioner Railways and Roads from 18 July 1866 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Other members for Western Province 1864-66 -------------------------------------------------------------------- > Niel Black (1804-80): Elected 1859 by, 1862 > Stephen George Henty (1811-72): Elected 1856 > James Frederick Palmer (1803-71): Elected 1856, 1860 -------------------------------------------------------------------- President of the Legislative Council -------------------------------------------------------------------- > Charles Sladen (1816-1884): Elected 1864 by -------------------------------------------------------------------- BY-ELECTIONS 1864-66 ==================================================================== EASTERN PROVINCE ==================================================================== Nominations 8 August, polling 22 August 1865 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Following the resignation of Matthew Hervey -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- James G Carr 82 28.7 Hon William C HAINES 204 71.3 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 286 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Carr was MLA for Grant South 1859-61. 2. Haines was an appointed MLC 1851-52, MLC for Grant 1853-54, an appointed MLC 1854-56, MLA for Grant South 1856-58, for Portland 1860-64. -------------------------------------------------------------------- William Clark Haines (1810-66): Elected 1856. Accepted office 1857. Elected 1857 by. Resigned 1858. Elected 1860 by. Defeated 1864. Elected 1865 by Died 3 February 1866 -------------------------------------------------------------------- EASTERN PROVINCE ==================================================================== Nominations 20 February 1866 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Following the death of William Haines -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert ANDERSON Unopposed -------------------------------------------------------------------- Anderson was MLA for Melbourne South 1858-59, for Emerald Hill 1859- 64. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert Stirling Hore Anderson (1821-83): Elected 1858 by, 1859. Accepted office 1860. Elected 1860 by, 1861. Defeated 1864. Elected 1866 by -------------------------------------------------------------------- WESTERN PROVINCE ==================================================================== Nominations 27 July, polling 8 August 1866 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Following the acceptance of office by Henry Miller -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Hon Henry Miller 216 41.1 James STRACHAN 309 58.9 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 525 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Strachan was MLC for South-Western 1856-66. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Henry Miller (1809-88): Elected 1856. Accepted office 1858. Elected 1858 by, 1864. Accepted office 1866. Defeated 1866 by Died 7 February 1888 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Vice-president Board Land and Works to 16 January 1867 Commissioner Railways and Roads to 16 January 1867 -------------------------------------------------------------------- James Ford Strachan (1810-75): Elected 1856. Resigned 1866. Elected 1866 by -------------------------------------------------------------------- Miller had previously been an opponent of the McCulloch ministry. Strachan regarded his acceptance of office in the government as "repugnant to the feelings of right-minded men," and resigned his own seat at South-Western Province to oppose Miller at this by- election.