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A total of 13 members were elected to the Second House of Assembly of Vancouver Island, which sat from March 1, 1860 to February 27, 1863. The members were elected over a number of weeks in January with each constituency holding its election on a different day.〔()〕 The election did not have political parties but did feature two factions. One was made up of men connected with the Hudson's Bay Company and close to Governor James Douglas and the other of reformers led by the ''British Colonist'' editor Amor De Cosmos. The reform faction lost in most cases and Amor De Cosmos used his newspaper to claim the election was not run fairly. Of particular concern to De Cosmos was that the 'coloured' people voted primarily for the HBC candidates. The information on who is from which faction is from information in the ''British Colonist,'' which was not neutral.〔(''British Colonist'' ), 10 January 1860〕 == Constituencies == *Victoria Town - 2 to be elected 〔(''British Colonist'' ), 10 January 1860〕 George Hunter Cary, 137 Selim Franklin, 106 Amor De Cosmos, 91 ''Reformer'' *Victoria District 3 to be elected〔http://www.britishcolonist.ca/tc/1860/01/14/18600114002.pdf〕 William Fraser Tolmie, 44 ''HBC'' Henry Pering Pellew Crease, 39 ''HBC'' resigned October 18, 1861, replaced by Joseph William Trutch on November 26, 1861 Alfred Pendrell Waddington, 35 ''Reformer,'' resigned October 15, 1861, replaced by James Trimble James Yates, 14 ''Reformer'' C.A Bayley, 14 ''Reformer'' *Esquimalt County 2 to be elected〔http://www.britishcolonist.ca/tc/1860/01/12/18600112002.pdf〕 John Sebastian Helmcken, 36 ''HBC'' James Cooper, 22 ''Reformer'' resigned July 27, 1860, replaced by Robert Burnaby Thomas James Skinner, 21 ''Ind'' *Esquimalt Town George Tomline Gordon, 27 〔Top of column 4 http://www.britishcolonist.ca/tc/1860/01/10/18600110002.pdf〕 resigned and was replaced by Thomas Harris March 31, 1862. He resigned on September 9, 1862 and was replaced by William Cocker. James Cooper, 10 -also ran in Esquimalt County and was elected there. *Lake District 〔()〕 George Foster Foster, 32 Captain Duncan, 7 *Sooke District William John McDonald, ''Reformer'' elected by acclamation *Saanich〔Column 1 http://www.britishcolonist.ca/tc/1860/01/14/18600114002.pdf〕 John Coles, won by acclamation *Saltspring and Chemainus District Joseph Johnson Southgate, 11 John Copland, 4 *Nanaimo District Augustus Rupert Green, (unknown if he faced an opponent) resigned February 6, 1861, replaced on November 4, 1861, by David Babington Ring 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Colony of Vancouver Island election, 1860」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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