ELECTIONS FOR THE DIVISION OF CORINELLA, VICTORIA ==================================================================== ELECTION OF 29-30 MARCH 1901 ==================================================================== Central Victoria: Castlemaine, Daylesford, Kyneton, Woodend -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 11,669 Votes cast: 6,628 56.8 Informal votes: 69 01.0 Formal votes: 6,559 99.0 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Hon Nicholas Fitzgerald FT 2,723 41.5 James McCAY Prot 3,836 58.5 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 6,559 08.5 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Fitzgerald was Vic MLC for North-Western 1864-82, 1882-1908. -------------------------------------------------------------------- James Whiteside McCay (1864-1930): Elected 1901 Born: 21 December 1864, Ballynure, Ireland. Career: Migrated as child. Educated Scotch College, Melbourne, University of Melbourne. Lawyer and teacher. Member Castlemaine Borough Council. Colonial politics: Vic MLA for Castlemaine 1895-99. Minister for Public Instruction 1899, Commissioner for Trade and Customs 1899. -------------------------------------------------------------------- ELECTION OF 16 DECEMBER 1903 ==================================================================== Central Victoria: Castlemaine, Daylesford, Kyneton, Woodend -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1901 majority: Protectionist over Free Trade 08.5 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 20,792 +78.2 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- James McCAY * Prot Unopposed -------------------------------------------------------------------- James Whiteside McCay (1864-1930): Elected 1901, 1903 Minister for Defence 18 August 1904 to 5 July 1905 -------------------------------------------------------------------- McCay was one of the group of conservative Protectionists who supported an alliance with Reid against Labour. He accepted office under Reid, thus effectively ending his connection with the Deakinite Protectionists. He joined Reid's Anti-Socialists in 1906. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Corinella was abolished at the 1906 redistribution. McCay contested Corio in 1906. --------------------------------------------------------------------