1884 Jamaican general election

none General elections were held in Jamaica on 11 and 12 September 1884.The New Legislative Council The Daily Gleaner 19 September 1884 2 Four of the nine seats were uncontested; Clarendon, Manchester, St Mary & St Ann and Westmoreland & Hanover.The Daily Gleaner. 9 September 1884. p. 2. Of the winning candidates, all but one (who was mixed-race) were white.https://ecj.com.jm/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/ECJ_History_Report.pdf History of the Electoral Commission of Jamaica Electoral Commission of Jamaica September 2014 8 Supporters of the sugar industry won in seven constituencies, only failing to win St Catherine and Kingston & St Andrews, where sugar was not the primary economic interest. Winning candidates were not exclusively driven by support for the industry however, and often had significant political histories. Palache, a mixed-race Jewish solicitor who won in Manchester, was the only winning candidate from a non-agricultural or plantation background. In the St Thomas & Portland constituency George Henderson, a former member of the old House of Assembly, faced a strong contest from Richard Hill Jackson. Jackson was the only black candidate in the election, although race was not considered to have played a prominent role in either St Thomas & Portland or the wider election. Kingston & St Andrews saw the fiercest contest, and was compared by a local newspaper to electioneering in the United States. George Solomon, a prominent leader of the movement for constitutional change who had the support of most of Kingston's newspapers, was defeated by William Malabre, a prominent merchant. Supporters of Malabre had attacked Solomon's Jewish background,https://www.jstor.org/stable/27850964 Sires, Ronald V. The Jamaica constitution of 1884 Social and Economic Studies 3 1 1954 64–81 27850964 5 February 2024 although the main cause of his defeat was the decision by Samuel Burke, a Crown Solicitor particularly popular in St Andrews, to support Malabre after Solomon had declined to support Burke's own nomination due to Burke's status as a government official.https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/27853683.pdf Burt, Arthur E. The First Instalment of Representative Government In Jamaica, 1884 Social and Economic Studies 11 3 1962 241–259 27853683 5 February 2024 Background In 1866 the Jamaican House of Assembly had been abolished during disturbances on the island following the Morant Bay rebellion. Since then, the legislative functions of the Assembly had been used by a Council appointed by the Governor. In April 1884 a conference was at the Westminster Palace Hotel, which resulted in the re-establishment of an elected Assembly. The new Assembly would consist of nine elected members and six appointed members.New Legislative Council Of Jamaica The Times 18 September 1884 6 31242 Under the new constitution, there were 9,176 voters out of a population of 600,000. This compared to 1,798 voters from a population of 450,000 in the last election in 1863. Results DistrictCandidateVotesClarendonRobert CraigUnopposedKingston & St AndrewsWilliam Malabre419Charles Lauchlin Campbell335George Solomon272William Kelly Smith1ManchesterJohn Thomson PalacheUnopposedSt CatherineEmanuel George Levy547Thomas Harvey267St ElizabethJames Miller Farquharson532Arthur Levy173St James & TrelawnyEdward Gooden Barrett437William Kerr140St Mary & St AnnMichael SolomonUnopposedSt Thomas & PortlandGeorge Henderson303Richard Hill Jackson232Henry Vendryes73Westmoreland & HanoverCharles Salmon FarquharsonUnopposedSource: The Daily GleanerThe Daily Gleaner. 16 September 1884. p. 2.The Daily Gleaner. 13 September 1884. pp. 2–3. By-elections Wellesley Bourke was elected in 1885 replacing Edward Gooden Barrett, who had resigned.Members of the Legislative Council Handbook of Jamaica 1891–92 William Bancroft Espeut was elected in 1886 replacing George Henderson, who had resigned. Thomas Lloyd Harvey was elected in October 1886 after Emanuel George Levy died. John Powell Clark was elected 1888 replacing John Thomson Palache, who had resigned. References Category:1884 in the British Empire Category:1884 in the Caribbean Category:19th century in Jamaica Category:General elections in Jamaica Jamaica Jamaica