1893 Queensland colonial election

none July 2022 July 2022 1893 Queensland colonial election Queensland parliamentary 1876 no 1888 Queensland colonial election 1888 1896 Queensland colonial election 1896 18 April – 25 May 1893 All 72 seats in the Legislative Assembly37 Assembly seats were needed for a majority 130px Thomas McIlwraith Ministerialist 8CB4D2 Brisbane North 34,927 44.78% 42 130px Thomas Glassey Labour Bundaberg DC241F 25,984 33.32% 16 Premier Thomas McIlwraith Ministerialist Thomas McIlwraith Ministerialist Elections were held in the Colony of Queensland between 18 April 1893 and 25 May 1893 to elect the members of the colony's Legislative Assembly. This election was an early use of contingent voting in a government election, 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 ↓ 42 16 7 7 Ministerialists Labour Opposition Independent Queensland colonial election, 29 April 1893Summary of 1893 Election http://elections.uwa.edu.au/elecdetail.lasso?keyvalue=767 University of Western Australia 26 July 2017 Legislative Assembly Queensland colonial election 1888 1896 86,983 77,993 73.11 yes Ministerial (Queensland) 34,927 44.78 42 - Labor QLD Labour 25,984 33.32 16 +12 Independent 7,905 10.14 7 +1 Opposition (Queensland) 7,154 9.17 7 - Country Farmers Rep. 1,230 1.58 0 - 77,993 72 |} See also Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly, 1893–1896 References Category:Elections in Queensland Category:1893 elections in Australia Category:1890s in Queensland Category:April 1893 in Australia Category:May 1893 in Australia