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1902 Southern Rhodesian Legislative Council election

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New electoral districts were drawn up for the expanded election. The Northern District, returning two members, and the Eastern District, returning one, were carved out of Mashonaland, with the remaining parts merging with part of Matabeleland to form the Midland District (returning one member) and
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promulgated in 1903 expanded the Legislative Council to fourteen members, seven to be directly elected, seven nominated by the British South Africa Company, and the Administrator to retain his seat
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During the absence of Townshend Griffin from November 7, 1902, Clarkson Henry Tredgold (Solicitor-General) stood in for him. When the membership was expanded in 1903, the nominated members were:
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the Western District (returning three). In order to provide continuity, the sitting members for Mashonaland were automatically made the members for the Northern District (as it contained
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by F.M.G. Willson and G.C. Passmore, assisted by Margaret T. Mitchell (Source Book No. 3, Department of Government, University College of Rhodesia and Nyasaland,
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The Southern Rhodesia Legislative Council election of March 17, 1902 was the second election to the
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Note: Raleigh Grey was absent through the whole of the first session of the Legislative Council.
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three years previously, so the Legislative Council continued to comprise ten voting members: the
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ed. by F.M.G. Willson (Department of Government, University College of Rhodesia and Nyasaland,
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Source Book of Parliamentary Elections and Referenda in Southern Rhodesia 1898-1962
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so as to have a casting vote. Polling day was fixed for May 22, 1903.
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Holders of Administrative and Ministerial Office 1894-1964
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Official Year Book of the Colony of Southern Rhodesia
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Index

Legislative Council
Southern Rhodesia
first elections
Administrator of Southern Rhodesia
British South Africa Company
Sir Marshal James Clarke
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Raleigh Grey
Richard John Wylie
Percival Ross Frames
Charles Theodore Holland
Order in Council
Salisbury
Bulawayo
John Meikle
Herman Melville Heyman
William Henry Haddon
William Napier
British South Africa Company
John Gilbert Kotzé
Thomas Charles Scanlen
KCMG
Joseph Millerd Orpen
Townshend Griffin
Herbert Hayton Castens
Thomas Charles Scanlen
KCMG
Francis James Newton
CMG
Herbert Hayton Castens

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