ELECTIONS FOR THE DIVISION OF NORTHERN MELBOURNE, VICTORIA ==================================================================== ELECTION OF 29-30 MARCH 1901 ==================================================================== Inner Melbourne: Carlton, Fitzroy South, North Carlton, North Melbourne -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 15,280 Votes cast: 8,476 55.5 Informal votes: 70 00.8 Formal votes: 8,406 99.2 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert Barr Prot 1,767 21.0 Henry HIGGINS 4,958 59.0 Isaac Selby 1,681 20.0 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 8,406 19.0 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Barr was Vic MLA for Fitzroy 1902-04. He was the endorsed candidate of the National Liberal Organisation. 2. Higgins was endorsed by the Victorian Labor Party and gave a written undertaking to support Labor measures, but he was not a Labor party member. He sat with the Protectionists in Parliament. 3. Selby was an independent protectionist candidate. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Henry Bournes Higgins (1851-1929): Elected 1901 Born: 30 June 1851, Ireland. Career: Educated St Stephens Green, Dublin, and University of Melbourne. Migrated 1870. Barrister. Colonial politics: Vic MLA for Geelong 1894-1900. -------------------------------------------------------------------- ELECTION OF 16 DECEMBER 1903 ==================================================================== Inner Melbourne: Carlton, Fitzroy South, North Carlton, North Melbourne -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1901 majority: Protectionist over Independent 19.0 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 35,542 +132.6 Votes cast: 17,101 48.1 -07.4 Informal votes: 609 03.6 +02.8 Formal votes: 16,492 96.4 -02.8 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- Henry HIGGINS * Prot 11,595 70.3 +11.3 Samuel Painter Lab 4,897 29.7 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 16,492 20.3 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Henry Bournes Higgins (1851-1929): Elected 1901, 1903 Attorney-General 27 April 1904 to 18 August 1904 Resigned seat 13 October 1906 (no by-election held) Later career: Justice of the High Court of Australia 1906-29. President of the Commonwealth Arbitration Court 1907-20. Died 13 January 1929 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Higgins accepted office in the Watson ministry with Deakin's approval. He remains the only person to hold office in a Labor ministry without being a member of the Labor Party. 2. Northern Melbourne was abolished at the 1906 redistribution. --------------------------------------------------------------------