1904 Cape Colony parliamentary election

April 2022 none 1904 Cape Colony parliamentary election Flag of the Cape Colony 1876-1910.svg legislative Popular no 1898 Cape Colony parliamentary election 1898 January & February 1904 1908 Cape Colony parliamentary election 1908 All 95 seats in the Assembly 48 120px 9ACD32 Leander Starr Jameson Progressive Grahamstown 50 6 126px 87CEEB James Tennant Molteno South African Party Somerset East 42 File:1903-1904 Cape Colony parliamentary election map.svg 350px Green - Cape Progressive Party Blue - South African Party Grey - Independent Prime Minister Gordon Sprigg Independent Progressive Leander Starr Jameson Progressive Elections for the House of Assembly were held in Cape Colony in 1904. The election was a victory for the Progressives under Leander Starr Jameson, who had first achieved prominence for his role in the ill-fated Jameson Raid.John Charrington Smith Alan General Elections in the Cape Colony: 1898-1908 https://open.uct.ac.za/bitstream/handle/11427/17782/thesis_hum_1980_smith_alan_john_charrington.pdf?sequence=1 University of Cape Town 1980 The incumbent Prime Minister Gordon Sprigg had been elected in 1898 as a Progressive, however the Progressives had been wracked by internal divisions. Whilst most of the party had been able to reconcile under Jameson, Sprigg and his Commissioner of Public Works Arthur Douglass, had been forced to contest the election as Independent Progressives. Both of them would lose their seats to Progressive candidates. The election also saw former Prime Minister William Schreiner lose his seat.Wills Walter H. The Anglo-African Who's Who and Biographical Sketchbook, 1907 https://books.google.com/books?id=HsSpvNOr7SEC&dq=south+africa+party+cape+shreiner&pg=PA325 Jeppestown Press 2006 325 9780955393631Switzer Les Power and Resistance in an African Society: The Ciskei Xhosa and the Making of South Africa https://books.google.com/books?id=yFMVDAAAQBAJ&dq=progressive+bond+cape+colony+election+1904&pg=PA159 University of Wisconsin Press 1993 159 9780199296637 Sprigg would resign as Prime Minister some days after the last results were announced, and was succeeded by Jameson.Garner James Wilford 1904 Record of Political Events https://www.jstor.org/stable/2140296 Political Science Quarterly 19 2 366 10.2307/2140296 0032-3195 subscription Following the election James Tennant Molteno would be replaced by John X. Merriman as leader of the South African Party. Thirteen constituencies were uncontested. Following the election of 95 members, Act 4 was passed, which gave a further twelve seats to the House. These were elected through by-elections in the same year.Statistical register of the colony of the Cape of Good Hope, piv Results thumb|Map of Legislative Assembly results by province. Progressive Party 50 +6 South African Party 42 New Independent–South African Party alliance 2 – #87DDDD Pro-SAP independent 1 – Labour Party 0 New Other parties 0 – +16 83801 135177 Smith Statistics ConstituencySeatsRegistered votersVotes availableVotes castAlbany22,0364,0723,091Albert21,8243,6482,324Aliwal North21,4522,9042,271Barkly West21,9533,9062,246Beaufort West22,1244,2482,696Caledon22,4784,9563,469Cape Town717,131119,91743,108Cathcart11,1711,171814Clanwilliam21,7133,426UnopposedColesberg22,1844,3683,062Cradock22,0254,050UnopposedEast London34,69714,0915,036Fort Beaufort21,6593,3182,516George44,00216,00810,593Graaff-Reinet22,4174,8342,727Graham's Town21,8373,6741,834Griqualand East21,9893,978UnopposedHumansdorp11,3951,395UnopposedJansenville21,9373,874UnopposedKimberley46,40425,61612,683King William's Town32,8008,4003,449Malmesbury22,4434,886UnopposedMafeking1758758UnopposedMiddelburg11,4841,484UnopposedNamaqualand22,0164,0323,133Oudtshoorn33,0609,1804,313Paarl32,8648,5926,890Piquetberg21,5823,1642,332Prieska11,0291,029736Port Elizabeth510,95154,75522,049Queen's Town33,61710,8515,514Richmond21,9223,8441,977Riversdale22,2094,418UnopposedSimon's Town11,6341,6341,104Somerset East22,5775,1544,300Stellenbosch22,1954,3903,559Swellendam22,6955,3903,605Tembuland22,7895,5784,079Uitenhage33,0809,2405,712Victoria East27791,5581,029Victoria West22,3344,668UnopposedVryburg29441,888UnopposedWodehouse22,0014,0022,663Woodstock36,44219,3268,176Worcester33,63010,890UnopposedWynberg34,91414,7424,079Total107135,177437,307187,169Source: Statistical register of the colony of the Cape of Good Hope References Cape Category:Elections in the Cape Colony Parliamentary election Cape Cape