Talk:1905 South Australian state election

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"Eight liberals"?

Question for anyone who might know... Labor forced the incumbent govt to resign with the support of "eight liberals". However according to Members of the South Australian House of Assembly, 1905–1906 sourced from here, apart from Labor, ANU and FPPU, there were only seven MPs without an affiliation. How do you get eight liberals from when there's only seven non Labor/ANU/FPPU MPs? And I doubt unaffiliated Vaiben Solomon would be considered a liberal and/or back Labor to form govt. Timeshift (talk) 03:37, 27 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I would imagine its safe to say out of the 7 independents listed in Members of the South Australian House of Assembly, 1905–1906, 5 can be included as Liberals (William Blacker, Ephraim Coombe, Arthur Inkster, Samuel Mitchell and Archibald Peake), as they were later members of the LDU from 1906. Vaiben Solomon was probably a Conservative as he later joins the Australasian National League. That leaves Ben Rounsevell, who lost his seat in 1906. He was a member of Solomon's ministry in 1899, so he could possibly be listed as a Conservative. Also two later members of the LDU from 1906, but are not listed as Independents in 1905, Thomas Burgoyne (member of the Farmers and Producers Political Union) and William Cummins (member of the ANL), could also be seen as being Liberal. So this would bring us back to 7, but with Rounsevell it would 8. Just my two cents worth. Linkqer (talk) 15:34, 24 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]