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Return showing the Number of Votes recorded for each Candidate at General Election, 6th December, 1905, Etc. — continued.

Electoral Districts and Names of Candidates. For each Informal Candidate. Votes. Number of Votes recorded. N F?ect™B° f Number of wnfdid'not Electors on vote. EoIL Population at Census, 1901. Total. Hurunui — Rutherford, Andrew William . Clothier, Obed Frederick Pulley, George Thomas Kaiapoi — Buddo, David Moore, Richard Riccarton— Witty, George Caverhill, Thomas Hensman Russell, George Warren EfEord, John Ash 2,149 963 307 2,088 2,043 36 71 36 71 3,455 4,202 1,306 602 4,761 4,8U4 8,847 8,500 2,294 1,054 679 103 66 792 4,988 Avon — Tanner, William Wilcox Brunt, John Russell Clarkson, Thomas Baynes, Benjamin Christchurch North — Gray, Charles Matthew Taylor, Thomas Edward Christchurch East — Davey, Thomas Henry Toogood, Henry Featherston Collins, William Whitehouse Cooke, Frederick Riley Christchurch South — Ell, Henry George Winny, Charles Henry Thorn, James Hadfield, John Lyttdton — Laurenson, George Radclifie, William Russell, Charles Lord .. Webb, Samuel Rollin .. Ellesmere — Rhodes, Robert Heaton Rennie, George Shaw, Henry Courtenay — Lewis, Charles McBride, Thomas Jones Sdwijn — Hardy, Charles Albert Criery Ivess, Joseph.. Ashburton — McLachlan, John Studholme, John Sealy, Joseph Geraldine — Flatman, Frederick Robert Jeffries, William Timaru — Hall-Jones, William Rolleston, Francis Joseph Waitaki — Steward, William Jukes Dash, George Maslin, William Stephen Walker, Alfred Nichol, John Buchanan 66 4,196 8.475 2,294 1,569 1,541 101 73 823 10,394 73 5,578 6,401 4,074 3,010 125 125 7,209 1,275 8,484 2,625 2,060 1,532 91 124 1,165 35,826 3,689 1,178 1,107 364 115 124 6,432 7,597 761 7,214 115 6,453 2,515 1,393 967 399 121 842 6,237 6,237 10,465 5,395 1,810 1,527 338 37 3,712 603 4,315 4,315 8,338 1,972 1,740 32 3,744 858 4,602 4,602 8,430 2,215 1,893 41 4,149 839 4,988 4,988 9,231 2,518 2.274 402 45 5,239 955 6,194 6,194 10,497 2,715 1,482 49 4,246 720 4,966 4,966 8,787 3,541 2,478 33 6,052 1,074 7,126 7,126 10,651 2,628 922 379 259 248 121 4,557 964 5,521 8,654 Oamaru — Duncan, Thomas Mitchell, James McKenzie, William Miller 3,400 1 ,391 L59 Iβ 5,063 823 5,886 10,098