Members elected to the First House of Assembly of Vancouver Island which sat from August 12, 1856, to December 7, 1859. The election was two years before the first newspaper started so there is no known record of the vote totals.
This was not a free election. There were property qualifications for candidates (to run, you had to have at least 300 pounds of freehold land) and for voters (to vote, you had to own at least 20 acres).
Only 40 could vote In the whole colony.
A mix of multi-member districts and single-member districts:
Victoria 3 members
Esquimalt 2 members
Sooke 1 member
Nanaimo 1 member.
Likely block voting was used in the multi-member districts and first-past-the-post voting in the single member districts, if a vote was held at all.
Constituency Victoria District Edward Edwards Langford – election contested and he was removed 26 August 1856 and replaced by Joseph William McKay on December 3, 1856 Joseph Despard Pemberton James Yates
Esquimalt District John Sebastian Helmcken, Speaker Thomas James Skinner
Sooke District John Muir, resigned 5 May 1857
Nanaimo District Dr. John Frederick Kennedy
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