1899 Queensland colonial election

1899 Queensland colonial election
All 72 seats in the Legislative Assembly of Queensland; 37 Assembly seats were needed for a majority
Premier before election; James Dickson; Ministerial (Queensland)	Elected Premier ; James Dickson; Ministerial (Queensland)

Elections were held in the Colony of Queensland between 1 March 1899 and 25 March 1899 to elect the members of the colony’s Legislative Assembly.

This election used contingent voting, at least in the single-member districts. ^[1]

Five districts were two-seat districts - Mackay, Marlborough, North Brisbane, Rockhampton and South Brisbane. In the two-member constituencies, plurality block voting was used -- electors could cast two valid votes but were allowed to "plump".^[2]

Key dates

Due to problems of distance and communications, it was not possible to hold the elections on a single day.^[3]

Results

Queensland colonial election, 11 March 1899^[4] Legislative Assembly << 1896–1902 >>
Enrolled voters		97,046
Votes cast		74,919		Turnout	79.13%
Informal votes		879		Informal
Summary of votes by party
Party		Primary votes	%	Swing	Seats	Change
	Ministerialist	46,953	49.34	+1.52	43	+2
	Labour	33,756	35.47	+0.51	21	+1
	Opposition	10,548	11.09	+0.72	8	±0
	Independent	3,898	4.10	-0.32	0	-2
Total		95,155			72

References

^ Bowler, Shaun; Grofman, Bernard Norman (2000). Elections in Australia, Ireland, and Malta under the single transferable vote: reflections on an embedded institution. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. p. 40. doi:10.3998/mpub.16507. ISBN 978-0-472-02681-4. The contingent vote … was used in Queensland from 1892 to 1942 and for Democratic primary elections in the U.S. state of Alabama between 1915 and 1931. It has been used for presidential elections in Sri Lanka since 1978 and in 1996 … the United Kingdom … called it the 'supplementary vote'.
^ Hughes and Graham, "Voting for the Queensland Legislative Assembly 1890-1964" (online) accessed February 20, 2025
^ "Queensland General Election Dates 1860-1929" (PDF). Queensland Parliament. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 December 2013. Retrieved 16 December 2013.
^ "Summary of 1899 Election". University of Western Australia. Retrieved 26 July 2017.

[1] Bowler, Shaun; Grofman, Bernard Norman (2000). Elections in Australia, Ireland, and Malta under the single transferable vote: reflections on an embedded institution. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. p. 40. doi:10.3998/mpub.16507. ISBN 978-0-472-02681-4. The contingent vote … was used in Queensland from 1892 to 1942 and for Democratic primary elections in the U.S. state of Alabama between 1915 and 1931. It has been used for presidential elections in Sri Lanka since 1978 and in 1996 … the United Kingdom … called it the 'supplementary vote'.

[2] Hughes and Graham, "Voting for the Queensland Legislative Assembly 1890-1964" (online) accessed February 20, 2025

[qed-3] "Queensland General Election Dates 1860-1929" (PDF). Queensland Parliament. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 December 2013. Retrieved 16 December 2013.

[4] "Summary of 1899 Election". University of Western Australia. Retrieved 26 July 2017.

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Key dates

Results

See also

References