THE LATE SCHOOL COMMITTEE ELECTION AT CAMBRIDGE.

Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1817, 28 February 1884, Page 2

THE LATE SCHOOL COMMITTEE ELECTION AT CAMBRIDGE.

A NEW FACE OX MATJ'EHS. Acvkkkuu.i tabulated form, showing the result of the recent election for the school committee at Cambiidge by the jumulative system of voting, piep.ired by Mi Wells, has been put into oui hand**. It shows th.it, if the individuals who voted weie counted instead of the number of votes recoided (each individual having seven \otes), or, in other words, if the poll had been decided according to the number of voters instead of the number of votes that each candidate polled, the lesult would have been of a\ery diffeient nature. For instance, Mr Thomson had 1)2 voters, giving him 202 votes, Mi Wells 108 voters and 159 \otes, Mr Hewitt 95 votei.s and 135 votes, Mr Plosking 82 voters and 132 votes, Mr Houghton SO \oters and 102 votes, Mr Huglies 43 voters and !) 1 votes, Mr Foi rest 10 voter-, and 82 votes, Mr Saagent 70 voters and S3 votes, Mi Smith 47 voters and 81 votes, Mr Nixon 40 voters and 7(> votes, and Mr Johnson 50 voter-, and 3S v ote-.. We regret our space dojs not pjrnut of our giving .in analysis of the voting foi each peis )n. There were 173 persons ivho voted, polling 1210 votes. As to the party voting those candidates who were for the icinodelhng, Messi-. Wells, Hewitt, Hosking, Houghton, S.irge.int, Smith and Johnson had 544 v >t3rs, givingthem7">2 votes; and those against the remoddelling, Messrs Thomson, Hughes, Fonest and Ni\on, had only 221 voters giving them 458 votes. This shows a difference in favour of the remodelling of 323 voters and 294 votes, or more than double the number of votes in favour of the lemodelling proposition of the old committee as against those who opposed it. Putting it in another form the remodeller.s polled G2*ls per cjnt. of the entire votes, and the anti-re noJellers 37*85. As named m the following order the candidates would have been returned had the votes been made up according to the number of voters. The first seven would have formed the committee, F representing for, and A against the remodelling proposals : —Wells, 108 F ; Hewitt, 03 F ; Thomson, 92 A ; Houghton, 80 F ; Hosking, 82 F ; Sargent, 76 F ; Johnson, 50 F j Smith, 47 F ; Forrest, 40 A ; Hughes, 43 A ; Nuon, 40 A. Therefore only one of the opposition party would have got in,