1896 Queensland colonial election

none June 2020 August 2019 1896 Queensland colonial election Queensland parliamentary 1876 no 1893 Queensland colonial election 1893 1899 Queensland colonial election 1899 10 March – 11 April 1896 All 72 seats in the Legislative Assembly37 Assembly seats were needed for a majority 130px Hugh Nelson Ministerial 8CB4D2 Murilla 39,088 47.82% 3.04 42 seats, 44.78% 41 1 115px Thomas Glassey Labour Bundaberg DC241F 28,581 34.97% 1.65 16 seats, 33.32% 20 4 125px J. G. Drake 29 June 1896 no Opposition F5DEB3 Enoggera 8,472 10.37% 1.19 7 seats, 9.17% 8 1 Premier Hugh Nelson Ministerial Hugh Nelson Ministerial 1896 Queensland colonial election - Vote Strength.svg 500px Legislative Assembly after the election Elections were held in the Colony of Queensland between 10 March 1896 and 11 April 1896 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 center|300px ↓ 41 20 8 3 Ministerialists Labour Opposition Other Queensland state election, 11 March 1896Summary of 1896 Election http://elections.uwa.edu.au/elecdetail.lasso?keyvalue=768 University of Western Australia 26 July 2017 Legislative Assembly Queensland colonial election 1893 1899 86,882 61,453 76.84 765 yes Ministerial (Queensland) 39,088 47.82 +3.04 41 –2 Labor QLD Labour 28,581 34.97 +1.65 20 +4 Opposition 8,472 10.37 +1.19 8 +1 Independent 3,608 4.41 –5.72 2 –5 Country Farmers' Representative 1,985 2.43 +0.85 1 +1 81,734 72 |} See also Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly, 1896–1899 References Category:Elections in Queensland Category:1896 elections in Australia Category:1890s in Queensland Category:March 1896 in Australia Category:April 1896 in Australia