1899 Queensland colonial election

none June 2020 August 2019 1899 Queensland colonial election Queensland parliamentary 1876 no 1896 Queensland colonial election 1896 1902 Queensland state election 1902 1–25 March 1899 All 72 seats in the Legislative Assembly of Queensland37 Assembly seats were needed for a majority 170x170px James Dickson Ministerial 8CB4D2 Bulimba 41 seats, 47.82% 43 2 170x170px Thomas Glassey Labour Bundaberg DC241F 20 seats, 34.97% 21 1 Premier James Dickson Ministerial (Queensland) 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.Bowler Shaun Grofman Bernard Norman 10.3998/mpub.16507 Elections in Australia, Ireland, and Malta under the single transferable vote: reflections on an embedded institution 2000 University of Michigan Press Ann Arbor 978-0-472-02681-4 40 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'. 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".Hughes and Graham, "Voting for the Queensland Legislative Assembly 1890-1964" (online) accessed February 20, 2025 Key dates Due to problems of distance and communications, it was not possible to hold the elections on a single day.Queensland General Election Dates 1860-1929 http://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/documents/explore/parliamentaryrecord/sections/Part%202.24.pdf Queensland Parliament 16 December 2013 https://web.archive.org/web/20131216062439/http://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/documents/explore/parliamentaryrecord/sections/Part%202.24.pdf 16 December 2013 dead Results Queensland colonial election, 11 March 1899Summary of 1899 Election http://elections.uwa.edu.au/elecdetail.lasso?keyvalue=769 University of Western Australia 26 July 2017 Legislative Assembly Queensland colonial election 1896 1902 97,046 74,919 79.13% 879 yes Ministerial (Queensland) 46,953 49.34 +1.52 43 +2 Labor QLD Labour 33,756 35.47 +0.51 21 +1 Opposition (Queensland) 10,548 11.09 +0.72 8 ±0 Independent 3,898 4.10 -0.32 0 -2 95,155 72 |} See also Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly, 1899–1902 References Category:Elections in Queensland Category:1899 elections in Australia Category:1890s in Queensland Category:March 1899 in Australia