1949 Bahamian general election
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General elections were held in the Bahamas in June and July 1949,[1] the last entirely non-partisan elections in the country. This was the second election in which the secret ballot was used in New Providence and the first in which the secret ballot was use for the Out Islands.
Elected MPs[]
Number | Name | Party | District | Ethnicity |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Stafford Lofthouse Sands | Independent | (first place) | White |
2 | Independent | (second place) | White | |
3 | Roland Theodore Symonette | Independent | (first place) | White |
4 | Étienne Dupuch | Independent | (second place) | White |
5 | Gerald Christopher Cash | Independent | (first place) | Black |
6 | Independent | (second place) | Black | |
7 | Independent | Black | ||
8 | Independent | Black | ||
9 | Independent | White | ||
10 | Independent | (first place) | White | |
11 | Basil Herbert McKinney | Independent | (second place) | White |
12 | Independent | Abaco (first place) | White | |
13 | Independent | Abaco (second place) | White | |
14 | Independent | Abaco (third place) | White | |
15 | Independent | Harbour Island (first place) | White | |
16 | Independent | Harbour Island (second place) | White | |
17 | Independent | Harbour Island (third place) | White | |
18 | Independent | Eleuthera (first place) | White | |
19 | Independent | Eleuthera (second place) | White | |
20 | Independent | Eleuthera (third place) | White | |
21 | Independent | Cat Island (first place) | White | |
22 | William Cartwright | Independent | Cat Island (second place) | Black |
23 | Independent | Exuma (first place) | White | |
24 | Robert Symonette | Independent | Exuma (second place) | White |
25 | Independent | Rum Cay & San Salvador | White | |
26 | Independent | Long Island (First place) | White | |
27 | Henry Milton Taylor | Independent | Long Island (Second place) | White |
28 | Independent | Crooked Islands, Long Cay, & Acklins | White | |
29 | Independent | White | ||
Source: sirrandolfawkes.com |
References[]
- ^ Randol F Fawkes You should know your government: A study in citizenship
Categories:
- Elections in the Bahamas
- 1949 in the Bahamas
- 1949 elections in the Caribbean
- Non-partisan elections
- 1949 elections in the British Empire