General elections in the Cape Colony, 1898-1908

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dc.contributor.advisorDavey, A Men_ZA
dc.contributor.authorSmith, Alan John Charringtonen_ZA
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dc.date.issued1980en_ZA
dc.description.abstractA history of parliamentary general elections can be approached in a number of different ways, but this work concentrates its attention on the results of the voting in the elections. For that reason, the Corpus has been divided into two parts. The first part deals with party politics and the elections while the second part is devoted to the systems of voting in the upper and lower house elections, the distribution of seats in the two houses of parliament, an analysis of the results of the voting in the elections and the trends in voter-support for the two major parties. The principle aim of the thesis is to provide an insight into the birth and the initial development of two-party elections in South Africa. Although the Cape Colony was only one of four British colonies which formed the Union in 1910, it was the first to evolve a system of two-party politics, and the six parliamentary general elections in the Cape Colony between 1898 and 1908 illustrate the origin and early evolution of two-party elections in South Africa. Considerable problems were encountered because the political parties in the Cape Colony were less rigid than their counterparts after 1910 and the systems of voting did not lend themselves readily to a yield of estimates of party support directly from the voting figures. Nevertheless, whilst an overall picture of the electoral trends during this crucial decade was relatively simple to ascertain, justification of the actual estimates of party support in each constituency was a different matter. Consequently, statistical appendices have been used to indicate the derivations of those figures.en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationSmith, A. J. C. (1980). <i>General elections in the Cape Colony, 1898-1908</i>. (Thesis). University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of Historical Studies. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/17782en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationSmith, Alan John Charrington. <i>"General elections in the Cape Colony, 1898-1908."</i> Thesis., University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of Historical Studies, 1980. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/17782en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationSmith, A. 1980. General elections in the Cape Colony, 1898-1908. University of Cape Town.en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Smith, Alan John Charrington AB - A history of parliamentary general elections can be approached in a number of different ways, but this work concentrates its attention on the results of the voting in the elections. For that reason, the Corpus has been divided into two parts. The first part deals with party politics and the elections while the second part is devoted to the systems of voting in the upper and lower house elections, the distribution of seats in the two houses of parliament, an analysis of the results of the voting in the elections and the trends in voter-support for the two major parties. The principle aim of the thesis is to provide an insight into the birth and the initial development of two-party elections in South Africa. Although the Cape Colony was only one of four British colonies which formed the Union in 1910, it was the first to evolve a system of two-party politics, and the six parliamentary general elections in the Cape Colony between 1898 and 1908 illustrate the origin and early evolution of two-party elections in South Africa. Considerable problems were encountered because the political parties in the Cape Colony were less rigid than their counterparts after 1910 and the systems of voting did not lend themselves readily to a yield of estimates of party support directly from the voting figures. Nevertheless, whilst an overall picture of the electoral trends during this crucial decade was relatively simple to ascertain, justification of the actual estimates of party support in each constituency was a different matter. Consequently, statistical appendices have been used to indicate the derivations of those figures. DA - 1980 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 1980 T1 - General elections in the Cape Colony, 1898-1908 TI - General elections in the Cape Colony, 1898-1908 UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/17782 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/17782
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationSmith AJC. General elections in the Cape Colony, 1898-1908. [Thesis]. University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of Historical Studies, 1980 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/17782en_ZA
dc.language.isoengen_ZA
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of Historical Studiesen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Humanitiesen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.subject.otherHistoryen_ZA
dc.titleGeneral elections in the Cape Colony, 1898-1908en_ZA
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