ELECTIONS FOR THE DIVISION OF LAANECOORIE, VICTORIA ==================================================================== ELECTION OF 29-30 MARCH 1901 ==================================================================== Central Victoria: Avoca, Creswick, Maldon, Maryborough -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 10,149 Votes cast: 5,894 58.1 Informal votes: 30 00.5 Formal votes: 5,864 99.5 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Charles SALMON Prot 3,054 52.1 Walter Grose 2,810 47.9 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 5,864 02.1 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Grose was Vic MLA for Creswick 1894-1904. He was an independent protectionist candidate. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Charles Carty Salmon (1861-1917): Elected 1901 Born: 29 July 1861, Amherst, Victoria. Career: Educated Scotch College, Melbourne, Universities of Melbourne and Edinburgh. Doctor and social reformer. Colonial politics: Vic MLA for Talbot and Avoca 1893-1901. Honorary Minister 1899, Minister for Public Instruction 1899-1900, Commissioner for Trade and Customs 1899-1900. -------------------------------------------------------------------- ELECTION OF 16 DECEMBER 1903 ==================================================================== Central Victoria: Avoca, Creswick, Maldon, Maryborough -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1901 majority: Protectionist over Independent 02.1 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 19,954 +96.6 Votes cast: 9,599 48.1 -10.0 Informal votes: 311 03.2 +02.7 Formal votes: 9,288 96.8 -02.7 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- David Bevan FT 2,358 25.4 Dr Charles SALMON * Prot 6,930 74.6 +22.5 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 9,288 24.6 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Charles Carty Salmon (1861-1917): Elected 1901, 1903 -------------------------------------------------------------------- ELECTION OF 12 DECEMBER 1906 ==================================================================== Central Victoria: Castlemaine, Creswick, Maldon, Maryborough -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1903 majority: Protectionist over Free Trade 24.6 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 27,606 +38.3 Votes cast: 14,757 53.5 +05.4 Informal votes: 881 06.0 +02.8 Formal votes: 13,876 94.0 -02.8 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- Walter Grose AS 4,206 30.3 +04.9 William Rowe Lab 4,466 32.2 Hon Dr Charles SALMON * Prot 5,204 37.5 -37.1 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 13,876 02.7 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Grose was Vic MLA for Creswick 1894-1904. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Charles Carty Salmon (1861-1917): Elected 1901, 1903, 1906 Speaker of the House of Representatives from 28 July 1909 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Salmon was elected Speaker following the death of Sir Frederick Holder. Unlike Holder, he was elected as a government nominee on a party-line vote and did not withdraw from his party room. This set a precedent which has been followed ever since. -------------------------------------------------------------------- ELECTION OF 13 APRIL 1910 ==================================================================== Central Victoria: Castlemaine, Creswick, Maldon, Maryborough -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1906 two-party majority: Protectionist over Labour 02.7 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 26,149 -05.3 Votes cast: 17,919 68.5 +15.0 Informal votes: 296 01.7 -04.3 Formal votes: 17,623 98.3 +04.3 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- Arthur Fraser ALP 8,664 49.2 +17.0 Hon Dr Charles SALMON * Lib 8,959 50.8 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 17,623 00.8 01.9 to ALP -------------------------------------------------------------------- The Liberal vote of 50.8% was a decline of 17.0% from the 67.8% polled by one Protectionist (Salmon) and one Anti-Socialist candidate in 1906. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Charles Carty Salmon (1861-1917): Elected 1901, 1903, 1906, 1910 Speaker of the House of Representatives to 30 June 1910 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Laanecoorie was abolished at the 1912 redistribution. Salmon retired in 1913. Later career: See Grampians by-election 1915. --------------------------------------------------------------------