Talk:1896 New Zealand general election

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I am sourcing this from the 1896 and 1897 yearbooks; unfortunately they don't include party affiliations. If anyone can add more of them (there should be 39 liberals and 35 independents), then that would be good.

NZ Elections site gives figures of 39 Liberals, 25 "conservatives", 6 Independants and 4 Others (Māori). The conservatives (small "c") were only named as such by their opposing Liberals, they were not formally constituted as a policital party (New Zealand Reform Party) until 1909. Incidentally, the article seems to colour-code the parties as Reform/Yellow and Independant/Grey - could this be made clearer? The numbers don't quite add up but then I don't know how many of the Independants were Liberal supporters. Fanx 19:33, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

The affiliations from 1890 to 1902 are not 100% correct as they count all Maori MPs as Independents even though some had obvious affiliations. In 1896 for example 3 of the 4 Maori MPs were Liberals, the other an Independent. While elections.org.nz records 39 Liberals it is more likely 42, hence the issue with numbers not adding up as you've pointed out. Side note, Wilson (1985) uses capital C's for the Conservatives which is interesting. Kiwichris (talk) 08:42, 25 July 2016 (UTC)

MP bios

This article contains many short bios of the 1896 MPs. Schwede66 19:31, 13 April 2012 (UTC)