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Clarence and Darling Downs - 1856 (Roll: 642)
Nominations: Monday, 31 March 1856, Polling: Tuesday, 15 April 1856
Candidate Votes Votes %
Irving, Clark (Elected) 193 65.87
McKenzie, Colin John 100 34.13
Formal Votes 293
Informal Votes 0 0.00
Total Votes / Turnout 293 45.64
Persons Voting / Turnout 296 46.11
Notes: Result validated by Executive Order, 13 May 1856.
Source: Report of nominations, North Australian and Ipswich General Advertiser, 7 April 1856, pp.3-4, with results 20 May, p.3 col.3 including booths. Totals of 203 / 101 published in SMH 8 May 1856, p.5 col.2. The Maitland Mercury 5 May and The Empire 6 May publish the North Australian's totals, while the SMH election summary on 30 April, p.5 col.1, publishes clearly incomplete results. None of these results match the Blue Book entry of 296 votes recorded which suggests the official declaration of poll has not been found.