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Gold Fields South - 1859 (Roll: n.a.)
Nominations: Monday, 13 June 1859, Polling: Wednesday, 6 July 1859
Candidate Votes Votes %
Egan, John Piper 132 26.09
Wilson, John Bowie (Elected) 374 73.91
Formal Votes 506
Informal Votes 0 0.00
Total Votes / Turnout 506 0.00
Source: SMH, 19 July 1859, p. 3, col. 1 reports an incompletes result from this electorate: Wisdom 372, Egan 132. Adelong Mining Journal, 22 July, p. 4, col. 2 does report the DOP, but the State Library copy is so badly damaged it is only possible to read Wilson's vote (374). But his vote does suggest that the provisional result printed by SMH was not wildly inaccurate. Statistical Register (1850-59) provides no return of total votes.