1856 Vancouver Island election

Members elected to the First House of Assembly of Vancouver Island which sat from August 12, 1856, to December 7, 1859.^[1] The election was two years before the first newspaper started so there is no known record of the actual vote totals.

Constituency

Victoria District

• Edward Edwards Langford – election contested and he was removed 26 August 1856 and replaced by Joseph William McKay on December 3, 1856
• Joseph Despard Pemberton
• James Yates

Esquimalt District

• John Sebastian Helmcken, Speaker
• Thomas James Skinner

Sooke District

• John Muir, resigned 5 May 1857

Nanaimo District

• Dr. John Frederick Kennedy

References

1. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2013-05-21. Retrieved 2012-05-08.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)