Braamfontein (House of Assembly of South Africa constituency)

Braamfontein
Former constituency for the South African House of Assembly
Location of Braamfontein within Johannesburg (1910)
Province	Transvaal
Former constituency
Created	1910
Abolished	1915
Number of members	1
Last MHA	Aubrey Woolls-Sampson (Un)
Replaced by	Hospital Parktown

Braamfontein was a constituency in the Transvaal Province of South Africa, which existed from 1910 to 1915. It covered a part of Johannesburg's northern suburbs centred on the suburb of Braamfontein. Throughout its existence it elected one member to the House of Assembly and one to the Transvaal Provincial Council.

Franchise notes

When the Union of South Africa was formed in 1910, the electoral qualifications in use in each pre-existing colony were kept in place. In the Transvaal Colony, and its predecessor the South African Republic, the vote was restricted to white men, and as such, elections in the Transvaal Province were held on a whites-only franchise from the beginning. The franchise was also restricted by property and education qualifications until the 1933 general election, following the passage of the Women's Enfranchisement Act, 1930 and the Franchise Laws Amendment Act, 1931. From then on, the franchise was given to all white citizens aged 21 or over. Non-whites remained disenfranchised until the end of apartheid and the introduction of universal suffrage in 1994. ^[1]

History

The Braamfontein constituency included some of Johannesburg's wealthiest suburbs, and as such was a safe seat for the Unionist Party. Its only election saw the Unionists defeat the Het Volk candidate by a solid margin, and when it was abolished in 1915, its two successor seats - Hospital, covering the inner-city parts of the seat including Braamfontein itself, and Parktown, covering the suburban areas to the north - were both safe Unionist seats as well.

Members

Election		Member	Party
	1910	Aubrey Woolls-Sampson	Unionist
	1915	Constituency abolished

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Detailed results

Elections in the 1910s

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1910 South African general election § Braamfontein.[ edit ]

General election 1910: Braamfontein

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Aubrey Woolls-Sampson	1,185	60.5	New
	Het Volk	H. B. Papenfus	775	39.5	New
Majority			410	21.0	N/A
	Unionist win (new seat)

References

1. "EISA South Africa: Historical franchise arrangements". Eisa.org.za. Archived from the original on 9 May 2013. Retrieved 6 July 2012.
2. Schoeman, B.M. (1977). Parlementêre verkiesings in Suid-Afrika 1910-1976. Pretoria: Aktuele Publikasies.
3. Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa (1972). "House of Assembly" (vol. 5, pp. 617–636). Cape Town: Nasionale Opvoedkundige Uitgewery (Nasou).