1908 Fijian general election
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General elections were held in Fiji on 23 March and 10 April 1908.[1]
Electoral system
[edit]The Legislative Council consisted of ten civil servants, six elected Europeans and two appointed Fijians.[1] The six Europeans were elected from three constituencies; Levuka (one seat), Suva (two seats) and a "Planters" constituency covering the rest of the colony (three seats).[1] Voting was restricted to European men aged 21 or over who were British subjects and earned at least £120 a year or owned property with a yearly value of £20.[2]
Voting was held in Levuka and Suva on 23 March, and in the Planters constituency on 10 April.[1]
Results
[edit]Constituency | Candidate | Votes | % | Notes |
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Levuka | John Maynard Hedstrom | 29 | 47.5 | Elected |
David Robbie | 25 | 41.0 | Unseated | |
F. Volk | 7 | 11.5 | ||
Planters | Leslie Edward Brown | 159 | 24.3 | Elected |
Alfred Hancock Witherow | 155 | 23.7 | Elected | |
Adam Coubrough | 152 | 23.2 | Re-elected | |
James Burton Turner | 148 | 22.6 | Unseated | |
J. McConnell | 40 | 6.1 | ||
Suva | Henry Milne Scott | 84 | 29.4 | Elected |
George Fox | 72 | 25.2 | Elected | |
Simeon Lewis Lazarus | 70 | 24.5 | Unseated | |
Henry Marks | 60 | 21.0 | Unseated | |
Source: Ali |
Nominated members
[edit]Position | Member |
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Governor | Everard im Thurn |
Agent-General of Immigration | Arthur Robert Coates |
Attorney General | Albert Ehrhardt |
Chief Medical Officer | George Lynch |
Collector of Customs | John Kenneth Murray Ross |
Colonial Secretary | Eyre Hutson |
Commissioner, Colo North and East | Adolph Joske |
Commissioner of Lands | Dyson Blair |
Commissioner of Works | William Charles Simmons |
Inspector-General of Constabulary | Islay McOwan |
Native Commissioner | William Sutherland |
Fijian appointees | Joni Madraiwiwi I |
Kadavu Levu | |
Source: Fiji Blue Book,[3] Fiji Elections[4] |
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d 1908 Legislative Council Election Fiji Elections Archive
- ^ Fiji Blue Book for the Year 1907, p78
- ^ Fiji Blue Book for the Year 1908, p85
- ^ 1908 Fiji Legislative Council elections Fiji Elections