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List of elections featuring William Hall-Jones as a candidate

This is a summary of the electoral history of William Hall-Jones, Prime Minister of New Zealand, (1906).

Parliamentary elections

1890 by-election

1890 Timaru by-election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent Liberal William Hall-Jones 422 48.61
Independent Edward G. Kerr 344 39.63 −0.58
Independent Labour W F Alpin 88 10.13
Informal votes 14 1.61
Majority 78 8.98
Turnout 868 67.28 −0.27

1890 election

1890 general election: Timaru
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent Liberal William Hall-Jones 472 31.78 −16.83
Independent Edward G. Kerr 420 28.28 −11.35
Liberal Jeremiah Twomey 366 24.65
Conservative Samuel Frederick Smithson 218 14.68
Liberal Philip E. Thoreau 9 0.61
Majority 52 3.50 −5.48
Turnout 1,485 60.44 −6.84
Registered electors 2,457

1893 election

1893 general election: Timaru
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent Liberal William Hall-Jones 1,914 55.94 +24.16
Liberal Edward G. Kerr 1,507 44.05 +15.77
Majority 407 11.89 +8.39
Turnout 3,421 81.22 +20.78
Registered electors 4,212

1896 election

1896 general election: Timaru
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal William Hall-Jones 2,180 57.36 +1.42
Conservative Frank Smith 1,539 40.50
Informal votes 81 2.14
Majority 641 16.86 +4.97
Turnout 3,800

James Stephen Keith (independent) withdrew before election day.

1899 election

1899 general election: Timaru
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal William Hall-Jones 3,091 77.68 +20.32
Independent Liberal James Stephen Keith 816 20.51
Independent Labour Joseph Mahoney 72 1.81
Majority 2,275 57.18 +40.32
Turnout 3,979 79.29
Registered electors 5,018

1902 election

1902 general election: Timaru
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal William Hall-Jones 3,046 63.60 −14.08
Conservative Frank Smith 1,395 29.13
Independent Frank Isitt 348 7.27
Majority 1,651 34.47 −22.71
Turnout 4,789 81.76 +2.47
Registered electors 5,857

1905 election

1905 general election: Timaru
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal William Hall-Jones 3,541 58.50 −5.10
Conservative Frank Rolleston 2,478 40.94
Informal votes 33 0.54
Majority 1,063 17.56 −16.91
Turnout 6,052 84.92 +3.16
Registered electors 7,126

Notes

  1. Note that in many newspapers, Keith is labelled as standing for the opposition
  2. Labour candidates at the time were counted as part of the Liberal Party

References

  1. "The Timaru Seat - Result of the Election". The Press. Vol. XLVII, no. 7634. 19 August 1890. p. 5.
  2. "The Timaru Seat". The Star. No. 6929. 12 August 1890. p. 3. Retrieved 14 April 2017.
  3. "The General Election, 1890". National Library. 1891. p. 2. Retrieved 25 February 2012.
  4. "History of The Timaru Herald". The Timaru Herald. 9 October 2013. Retrieved 24 November 2013.
  5. The General Election, 1893. Government Printer. 1894. p. 1. Retrieved 19 November 2013.
  6. "The General Election". Otago Daily Times. 28 November 1893. p. 6. Retrieved 28 November 2013.
  7. "Timaru". The Star. No. 5739. 5 December 1896. p. 6.
  8. "The General Election". Evening Star. No. 10179. 4 December 1896. p. 1.
  9. "The General Election, 1899". Wellington: Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives. 19 June 1900. p. 1. Retrieved 12 February 2014.
  10. "The General Election". The Daily Telegraph. No. 9729. 30 November 1899. p. 4. Retrieved 25 February 2014.
  11. The General Election, 1902. National Library. 1903. p. 1. Retrieved 4 December 2014.
  12. The General Election, 1905. p. 3. Retrieved 26 November 2015.

Bibliography

  • McRobie, Alan (1989). Electoral Atlas of New Zealand. Wellington: GP Books. ISBN 0-477-01384-8.
  • Wilson, James Oakley (1985) . New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1984 (4th ed.). Wellington: V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer. OCLC 154283103.
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