1908 Fijian general election

General elections were held in Fiji on 23 March and 10 April 1908.^[1]

Electoral system

The Legislative Council consisted of ten civil servants, six elected Europeans and two appointed Fijians.^[1] The six Europeans were elected from three constituencies; Levuka (one seat), Suva (two seats) and a "Planters" constituency covering the rest of the colony (three seats).^[1] Voting was restricted to European men aged 21 or over who were British subjects and earned at least £120 a year or owned property with a yearly value of £20.^[2]

Voting was held in Levuka and Suva on 23 March, and in the Planters constituency on 10 April.^[1]

Results

Constituency	Candidate	Votes	%	Notes
Levuka	John Maynard Hedstrom	29	47.5	Elected
	David Robbie	25	41.0	Unseated
	F. Volk	7	11.5
Planters	Leslie Edward Brown	159	24.3	Elected
	Alfred Hancock Witherow	155	23.7	Elected
	Adam Coubrough	152	23.2	Re-elected
	James Burton Turner	148	22.6	Unseated
	J. McConnell	40	6.1
Suva	Henry Milne Scott	84	29.4	Elected
	George Fox	72	25.2	Elected
	Simeon Lewis Lazarus	70	24.5	Unseated
	Henry Marks	60	21.0	Unseated
	Source: Ali

Nominated members

Position	Member
Governor	Everard im Thurn
Agent-General of Immigration	Arthur Robert Coates
Attorney General	Albert Ehrhardt
Chief Medical Officer	George Lynch
Collector of Customs	John Kenneth Murray Ross
Colonial Secretary	Eyre Hutson
Commissioner, Colo North and East	Adolph Joske
Commissioner of Lands	Dyson Blair
Commissioner of Works	William Charles Simmons
Inspector-General of Constabulary	Islay McOwan
Native Commissioner	William Sutherland
Fijian appointees	Joni Madraiwiwi I
	Kadavu Levu
Source: Fiji Blue Book,[3] Fiji Elections[4]

References

1. 1908 Legislative Council Election Fiji Elections Archive
2. Fiji Blue Book for the Year 1907, p78
3. Fiji Blue Book for the Year 1908, p85
4. 1908 Fiji Legislative Council elections Fiji Elections