1935 Bahamian general election

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General elections were held in the Bahamas in 1935. Parliament having been dissolved in May.[1] This election was the last entirely public ballot elections in the country. A bill providing for a trial of secret ballots in New Providence (but not the Family Islands) was passed in July 1939, with the trial becoming permanent in 1942.[2]

Elected MPs

Number Name Party District Ethnicity
1 Arthur H. Sands Independent New Providence - Nassau City (first place) White
2 Stafford Sands[a] Independent New Providence - Nassau City (second place) White
3 Roland Symonette Independent New Providence East (first place) White
4 Leon Walton Young Independent New Providence East (second place) Black
5 A. F. Adderley Independent New Providence West (first place) Black
6 Percy E. Christie Independent New Providence West (second place) White
7 Audrey Solomon Independent New Providence South (first place) White
8 Claudius Roland Walker Independent New Providence South (second place) Black
9 J. K. A. Kelly[a] Independent Grand Bahama & Bimini White
10 R. H. Curry Independent Andros & Berry Islands (first place) White
11 Basil Herbert McKinney Independent Andros & Berry Islands (second place) White
12 B. R. Russell Independent Abaco (first place) White
13 J. W. Roberts Independent Abaco (second place) White
14 Frank Holmes Christie[a] Independent Abaco (third place) White
15 W. C. B. Johnson Independent Harbour Island (first place) White
16 R.R.A. Farrington Independent Harbour Island (second place) White
17 H. N. Chipman Independent Harbour Island (third place) White
18 R. W. Sawyer Independent Eleuthera (first place) White
19 George William Kelly Roberts Independent Eleuthera (second place) White
20 O. H. Curry Independent Eleuthera (third place) White
21 Alvin Braynen Independent Cat Island(first place) White
22 Harold George Christie Independent Cat Island(second place) White
23 George Murphy Independent Exuma (first place) White
24 E. V. Solomon Independent Exuma (second place) White
25 G. W. Higgs Independent Rum Cay & San Salvador White
26 L. C. Brice Independent Long Island (First place) White
27 L. G. Dupuch Independent Long Island (Second place) White
28 R. G. Collins Independent Crooked Islands, Long Cay, & Acklins White
29 Etienne Dupuch Independent Mayaguana & Inagua Islands White
Source: Bethell, Early Settlers of The Bahamas[3]

References

  1. ^ "Annual Report on the Social and Economic Progress of the People of the Bahamas, 1936". Colonial Reports (1819). London, England: Her Majesty's Stationery Office: 5. 1937 – via Hathi Trust.
  2. ^ Saunders, Gail (2017). Race and Class in the Colonial Bahamas, 1880-1960 (Electronic ed.). Gainesville, Florida: University Press of Florida. ISBN 978-0-8130-5155-0.
  3. ^ Bethell, Arnold Talbot (1937). The Early Settlers of the Bahamas and Colonists of North America. Rounce & Wortley. p. 116.

Notes

  1. ^ a b c Elected in 1937 by-election
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