1858 Encounter Bay colonial by-election

none 1858 Encounter Bay colonial by-election South Australia Flag of the United Kingdom.svg parliamentary no 1857 South Australian colonial election 1857 15 January 1858 1860 South Australian colonial election 1860 939 59 (6.3%) FPTP Electoral district of Encounter Bay in the South Australian House of Assembly Henry Strangways.jpg 180 120 160 30 25 888 Henry Bull Templer Strangways 30 52.6% 52.6 pp Charles Thomas Hewett (B 72432) • Photograph at State Library of South Australia Portrait Collection.jpg 250 120 160 100 70 888 Charles Thomas Hewett 27 47.4% 30.2 pp MHA Benjamin Herschel Babbage Henry Bull Templer Strangways The 1858 Encounter Bay colonial by-election was held on 15 January 1858 to elect one of two members for Encounter Bay in the South Australian House of Assembly, after sitting member Benjamin Herschel Babbage resigned on 17 December 1857. Henry Bull Templer Strangways won the by-election with 53 per cent of the vote, although the election had an incredibly low turnout, with only six per cent of registered voters casting a ballot. Background The by-election was trigged after Benjamin Herschel Babbage resigned on 17 December 1857. 1857 election result Results of the 1857 South Australian colonial election (House of Assembly) Encounter Bay y Results 1858 Encounter Bay colonial by-electionhttps://ia600203.us.archive.org/25/items/history-of-south-australian-elections-1857-2006-house-of-assembly-volume-1/HISTORY%20OF%20SOUTH%20AUSTRALIAN%20ELECTIONS%20-%C2%A01857%20-%202006%C2%A0House%20of%20Assembly%2C%C2%A0Volume%201%C2%A0by%20Dean%20Jaensch%20%28PDF%207MB%29.pdf History of South Australian Elections, 1857–2006, House of Assembly, Volume 1 Dean Jaencsh March 2007 Internet Archive 27 Henry Bull Templer Strangways Independent 30 52.6 +52.6 Charles Thomas Hewett Independent 27 47.4 +30.2 57 96.6 +0.8 2 3.4 –0.8 59 6.3 –36.5 See also List of South Australian House of Assembly by-elections References http://www.parliament.sa.gov.au/AboutParliament/From1836/Documents/StatisticalRecordoftheLegislature1836to20093.pdf Statistical Record of the Legislature 1836–2007 24 April 2007 Parliament of South Australia https://web.archive.org/web/20110312023915/http://www.parliament.sa.gov.au/AboutParliament/From1836/Documents/StatisticalRecordoftheLegislature1836to20093.pdf 12 March 2011 dead Category:1858 elections in Australia Category:South Australian state by-elections Category:January 1858 in Australia