VICTORIA ==================================================================== LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL ==================================================================== ELECTION OF AUGUST-SEPTEMBER 1876 ==================================================================== Showing ministerial and parliamentary offices held in the period 7 August 1876 to 7 August 1878 VOTING BY PROVINCE ==================================================================== CENTRAL PROVINCE ==================================================================== Nominations 15 August, polling 28 August 1876 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Hon James GRAHAM * Unopposed -------------------------------------------------------------------- James Graham (1819-98): Appointed 1853. Resigned 1854. Elected 1866, 1876 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Other members for Central Province 1876-78 -------------------------------------------------------------------- > Thomas Turner a’Beckett (1808-92): Elected 1858, 1868 a'Beckett retired in 1878. Died 1 July 1892 > George Ward Cole (1793-1879): Elected 1859 by, 1860 > Frederick Thomas Sargood (1834-1903): Elected 1874 by > Theodotus John Sumner (1820-84): Elected 1873 by, 1874 -------------------------------------------------------------------- EASTERN PROVINCE ==================================================================== Nominations 5 September, polling 16 September 1876 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Hon 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. Accepted office 1874. Elected 1874 by, 1876 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Commissioner for Trade and Customs to 21 May 1877 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Other members for Eastern Province 1876-78 -------------------------------------------------------------------- > William Highett (1807-80): Elected 1857 by, 1860, 1870 > Francis Murphy (1809-91): Elected 1856, 1859, 1861, 1864, 1866, 1868. Defeated 1871. Elected 1872 by Resigned November 1876 Died 30 March 1891 > John Alson Wallace (1828-1901): Elected 1873 by, 1874 > William Wilson (1834-91): Elected 1875 by -------------------------------------------------------------------- NORTH WESTERN PROVINCE ==================================================================== Nominations 5 September, polling 16 September 1876 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Joseph H ABBOTT 1,505 51.0 Hon Alexander Fraser * 1,448 49.0 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 2,953 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Alexander Fraser (1802-88): Elected 1858 by, 1866. Accepted office 1872. Elected 1872 by. Defeated 1876. Declared elected 1876. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Joseph Henry Abbott (1830-1904): Elected 1876 Born: 1 February 1830, Birmingham Career: To Melbourne 1852. Miner and storkeeper, Bendigo. Sandhurst Council. Disqualified November 1876 Later career: see Northern Province, 1889 by-election -------------------------------------------------------------------- The Elections and Qualifications Committee of the Legislative Council ruled that Abbott did not meet the necessary property qualification to be eligible to be elected to the Council, because the property in question was in fact owned by his wife. The Committee declared Fraser to be elected. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Other members for North Western Province 1876-78 -------------------------------------------------------------------- > William Campbell (1810-96): Elected 1862, 1872 > Nicholas Fitzgerald (1829-1908): Elected 1864, 1874 > 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, 1870 -------------------------------------------------------------------- President of the Legislative Council -------------------------------------------------------------------- > Francis Robertson (1825-86): Elected 1868 -------------------------------------------------------------------- SOUTHERN PROVINCE ==================================================================== Nominations 15 August, polling 29 August 1876 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- John B Bennett 545 33.4 James BUCHANAN 675 41.4 Patrick O’Brien 412 25.2 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 1,632 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Bennett was MLC for Southern Province 1856-63. 2. O’Brien was MLC for Kilmore, Kyneton and Seymour 1853-56, MLA for Bourke South 1856-59. -------------------------------------------------------------------- James Buchanan (1827-1914): Elected 1876 Born: February 1827, Lanarkshire Career: To Port Phillip 1849. Farmer at Berwick. Berwick Shire Council. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Other members for Southern Province 1876-78 -------------------------------------------------------------------- > James Balfour (1830-1913): Elected 1866. Resigned 1868. Elected 1874 by > John Pinney Bear (1823-89): Elected 1863 by, 1868 Bear retired in 1878. Died 27 October 1889 > Frank Stanley Dobson (1835-95): Elected 1870 by, 1872 > Thomas Ferrier Hamilton (1820-1905): Elected 1872 by, 1874 -------------------------------------------------------------------- SOUTH WESTERN PROVINCE ==================================================================== Nominations 25 August, 4 September 1876 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Hon George F BELCHER * 1,068 53.4 William A Zeal 932 46.6 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 2,000 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Zeal was MLA for Castlemaine 1864-65, 1871-74. -------------------------------------------------------------------- George Frederick Belcher (1823-1909): Elected 1875 by, 1876 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Other members for South Western Province 1876-78 -------------------------------------------------------------------- > John Cumming (1830-83): Elected 1870 by, 1870 > Henry Cuthbert (1829-1907): Elected 1874 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Postmaster-General 3 July 1877 to 29 July 1878 -------------------------------------------------------------------- > James Henty (1800-82): Elected 1856, 1862, 1872 > Caleb Joshua Jenner (1830-90): Elected 1863 by, 1868 -------------------------------------------------------------------- WESTERN PROVINCE ==================================================================== Nominations 29 August -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Hon Sir Charles SLADEN Unopposed -------------------------------------------------------------------- Charles Sladen (1816-1884): Appointed 1855. Elected 1856. Resigned 1857. Elected 1864 by. Retired 1868. Elected 1876 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Sladen was an appointed MLC 1855-56, MLA for Geelong 1856-57, MLC for Western Province 1864-68. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Other members for Western Province 1876-78 -------------------------------------------------------------------- > Niel Black (1804-80): Elected 1859 by, 1862, 1872 > Thomas Bromell (1832-87): Elected 1874 > Robert Simson (1819-96): Elected 1868 Simson retired in 1878. Later career: See Legislative Council, Western Province, 1880 by-election > Samuel Wilson (1832-95): Elected 1861 by, 1861. Retired 1864. Elected 1875 by -------------------------------------------------------------------- BY-ELECTIONS 1876-78 ==================================================================== EASTERN PROVINCE ==================================================================== Nominations 15 November, polling 27 November 1876 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Following the resignation of Hon Sir Francis Murphy -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert D REID Unopposed -------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert Dyce Reid (1839-1900): Elected 1876 by Born: 3 August 1839, near Goulburn NSW Career: To Port Phillip 1846. Pastoralist on the Ovens. Ovens Shire Council. Brother of David Reid MLA. -------------------------------------------------------------------- SOUTH WESTERN PROVINCE ==================================================================== Nominations 14 July, 25 July 1877 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Following acceptance of office by Hon Henry Cuthbert -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Hon Henry CUTHBERT Unopposed -------------------------------------------------------------------- Henry Cuthbert (1829-1907): Elected 1874. Accepted office 1877. Elected 1877 by --------------------------------------------------------------------