1858–59 Cape Colony parliamentary election

8 September 1858 – 2 March 1859 (1858-09-08 1859-03-02)

All 46 seats in the Assembly (lower house)
24 seats are needed for a majority
All 15 seats in the Council (upper house)
8 seats are needed for a majority
  Majority party Minority party Third party
 
Leader Rawson W. Rawson John Paterson
Party Administration Western Liberal group Eastern separatist group
Seats won Appointed (Colonial Secretary) Eastern Province (council)

Provinces and electoral districts.

The 1858–59 Cape Colony parliamentary election was conducted between September 1858 and early March 1859. This was the second election for the Cape parliament, which had been established in 1854.

Despite the election, the parliament was weak and executive power remained firmly in the hands of the Governor, Sir George Grey, who was appointed from London. Rawson W. Rawson continued as the colony's Colonial Secretary. As Colonial Secretary, Rawson could speak in both the Assembly and Council, but held no voting rights.

Since the previous election, the parliament had moved to a new building: the Goede Hoop Masonic Lodge buildings.

In the Eastern Province, the assembly elections saw little excitement, with some constituencies had difficulty even finding willing candidates.[1] In the Assembly constituency of Albany, which returned 2 members of the Assembly, only 4 people voted.[2] Andries Stockenström and Robert Godlonton, both representatives for the Eastern Division in the Council, chose not to seek re-election.

Constituencies

For elections to the House of Assembly, the Cape was divided into 22 electoral divisions, returning a total of 46 members. The electoral division boundaries corresponded with the existing Cape Colony fiscal divisions. The only exceptions to this were for Albany, and the urban areas of Cape Town-Green Point and Grahamstown, (which were not included in the Cape electoral division), which had their own electoral divisions.[3]

Members elected

Assembly

ConstituencyMemberParty
Albany Henry Calderwood
Albany SLATER
Albert KRUGER
Albert HOPLEY
Beaufort West John Charles Molteno
Beaufort West Dr James Christie
Caledon
Caledon
Cape Town J. D. Thompson
Cape Town M. J. Louw
Cape Town Saul Solomon
Cape Town Petrus Kotzé
Cape Division BLAKE
Cape Division Johan Conrad Silberbauer
Clanwilliam
Clanwilliam
Colesburg
Colesburg
Cradock Charles Scanlen
Cradock CALDECOTT
Fort Beaufort
Fort Beaufort
George PRINCE
George WALTERS
Graaff-Reinet MEINTJES
Graaff-Reinet Jeremias Ziervogel
Grahams Town
Grahams Town
Malmesbury LEEDOLFF
Malmesbury DUCKITT
Paarl J. J. Proctor
Paarl HAUPT
Port Elizabeth John Ross Philip
Port Elizabeth
Somerset BOWKER
Somerset KRUGER
Stellenbosch Christoffel Brand
Stellenbosch BOSMAN
Swellendam John Fairbairn
Swellendam WHITE
Worcester MINNIK
Worcester LE SUEUR
Uitenhage BILLINGHAM
Uitenhage KROG
Victoria East
Victoria East

[1]

Council

ConstituencyMemberParty
Eastern Province Joseph Cawood
Eastern Province Charles Pote
Eastern Province John Paterson
Eastern Province William Southey
Eastern Province Julius Mosenthal
Eastern Province Ludwig Johan Frederick von Maltitz
Eastern Province James Henry Greathead
Western Province Joseph Barry
Western Province John Stein
Western Province Petrus Emanuel Roubaix
Western Province Jan de Wet, LLD
Western Province Hercules Crosse Jarvis
Western Province Johan Hendrik Wicht
Western Province Dirk Gysbert van Breda
Western Province Francis William Reitz

[4]

References

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