VICTORIA ==================================================================== LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL ==================================================================== ELECTION OF AUGUST-OCTOBER 1866 ==================================================================== Showing ministerial and parliamentary offices held in the period 4 September 1866 to 1 September 1868 VOTING BY PROVINCE ==================================================================== CENTRAL PROVINCE ==================================================================== Nominations 20 September, polling 29 September 1866 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- James GRAHAM Unopposed -------------------------------------------------------------------- Graham was an appointed MLC 1853-54. -------------------------------------------------------------------- James Graham (1819-98): Appointed 1853. Resigned 1854. Elected 1866. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Other members for Central Province 1866-68 -------------------------------------------------------------------- > Thomas Turner a'Beckett (1808-92): Elected 1858 > George Ward Cole (1793-1879): Elected 1859 by, 1860 > John Pascoe Fawkner (1792-1869): Elected 1856, 1864 > Thomas Howard Fellows (1822-78): Elected 1858 by, 1862 Resigned February 1868 Later career: See Legislative Assembly 1868, St Kilda -------------------------------------------------------------------- Minister for Justice 6 May 1868 to 11 July 1868 -------------------------------------------------------------------- EASTERN PROVINCE ==================================================================== Nominations 10 October, polling 24 October 1866 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert S H ANDERSON * Unopposed -------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert Stirling Hore Anderson (1821-83): Elected 1858 by, 1859. Accepted office 1860. Elected 1860 by, 1861. Defeated 1864. Elected 1866 by, 1866 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Other members for Eastern Province 1866-68 -------------------------------------------------------------------- > William Highett (1807-80): Elected 1857 by, 1860 > Henry Morgan Murphy (1815-91): Elected 1864 > Robert Turnbull (1819-72): Elected 1863 by > Benjamin Williams (1804-74): Elected 1856, 1858 -------------------------------------------------------------------- NORTH WESTERN PROVINCE ==================================================================== Nominations 19 October, polling 2 November 1866 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Alexander FRASER * Unopposed -------------------------------------------------------------------- Alexander Fraser (1802-88): Elected 1858 by, 1866 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Other members for North Western Province 1866-68 -------------------------------------------------------------------- > William Campbell (1810-96): Elected 1862 > Nicholas Fitzgerald (1829-1908): Elected 1864 > 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 1866 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Thomas McCombie 428 44.7 John SHERWIN 530 55.3 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 958 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. McCombie was MLC for Southern Province 1856-59. 2. Sherwin was MLA for Bourke East 1864-66. -------------------------------------------------------------------- John Sherwin (1810-68): Elected 1864. Defeated 1866 Died 10 August 1868 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Other members for Southern Province 1866-68 -------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 Henry Pettet (1814-71): Elected 1864 -------------------------------------------------------------------- SOUTH WESTERN PROVINCE ==================================================================== Nominations 29 September, polling 11 October 1866 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Thomas Learmonth 615 49.8 George ROLFE 620 50.2 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 1,235 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. For Learmonth, see South Western Province, 1867 by-election, below 2. Rolfe was MLC for North Western Province 1860-62. -------------------------------------------------------------------- George Rolfe (1808-71): Elected 1860 by. Retired 1862. Elected 1866. Unseated March 1867. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Learmonth petitioned against Rolfe's election on the grounds that unqualified persons had voted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Other members for South Western Province 1866-68 -------------------------------------------------------------------- > James Henty (1800-82): Elected 1856, 1862 > Caleb Joshua Jenner (1830-90): Elected 1863 by > John Lowe (1813-67): Elected 1864 Died 17 January 1867 > John McCrae (1816-70): Elected 1860 WESTERN PROVINCE ==================================================================== Nominations 6 October, polling 19 October 1866 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Stephen G HENTY * Unopposed -------------------------------------------------------------------- Stephen George Henty (1811-72): Elected 1856, 1866 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Other members for Western Province 1866-68 -------------------------------------------------------------------- > Niel Black (1804-80): Elected 1859 by, 1862 > James Frederick Palmer (1803-71): Elected 1856, 1860 -------------------------------------------------------------------- President of the Legislative Council -------------------------------------------------------------------- > Charles Sladen (1816-1884): Appointed 1855. Elected 1856. Resigned 1857. Elected 1864 by Sladen retired in 1868 Later career: See Western Province 1876 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Premier and Chief Secretary 6 May to 11 July 1868 -------------------------------------------------------------------- > James Ford Strachan (1810-75): Elected 1856. Resigned 1866. Elected 1866 by -------------------------------------------------------------------- BY-ELECTIONS 1866-68 ==================================================================== SOUTH WESTERN PROVINCE ==================================================================== Nominations 5 February, polling 13 February 1867 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Following the death of John Lowe -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Thomas LEARMONTH Unopposed -------------------------------------------------------------------- Thomas Learmonth (1818-1903): Elected 1867 by Born: Argyllshire Career: To Port Phillip 1837. Pastoralist at Burrumbeet. -------------------------------------------------------------------- SOUTH WESTERN PROVINCE ==================================================================== Nominations 13 April, polling 23 April 1867 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Following the unseating of George Rolfe -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Robert C HOPE 522 50.5 Phillip Russell 512 49.5 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 1,034 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Hope was MLC for South Western Province 1856-64. 2. For Russell, see South Western Province by-election, 1869 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert Culbertson Hope (1812-78): Elected 1856. Defeated 1864. Elected 1867 by -------------------------------------------------------------------- CENTRAL PROVINCE ==================================================================== Nominations 26 February, polling 6 March 1868 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Following the resignation of Thomas Fellows -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Hon John O'SHANASSY Unopposed -------------------------------------------------------------------- O'Shanassy was MLC for Melbourne 1851-56, MLA for Kilmore 1856-65. -------------------------------------------------------------------- John O'Shanassy (1818-83): Elected 1856. Accepted office 1857. Elected 1857 by. Accepted office 1858. Elected 1858 by, 1859, 1861, 1864. Retired 1866. Elected 1868 by -------------------------------------------------------------------- SOUTHERN PROVINCE ==================================================================== Nominations 5 September, polling 16 September 1868 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Following the death of John Sherwin -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- William A C a'BECKETT 468 47.6 John Halfey 172 17.5 Nathaniel Levi 344 35.0 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 984 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. According to "The Argus", a'Beckett was the Ministerialist candidate, who was allowed to win because Halfey and Levi split the Oppositionist vote. 2. Halfey was MLA for Sandhurst 1864-67. 3. Levi was MLA for Maryborough 1861-65, Melbourne East 1866-67. -------------------------------------------------------------------- William Arthur Callander a'Beckett (1833-1901): Elected 1868 by Born: 7 July 1833, London Career: To Sydney 1837, to Port Phillip 1868. Barrister. Son of Sir William a'Beckett, Chief Justice of Victoria. Half-brother of Thomas T a'Beckett MLC. --------------------------------------------------------------------