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2 unusual facts about Legislative Council


Legislative council

India: The Vidhan Parishad (or Legislative Council) in seven of the twenty-eight Indian states (Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Jammu and Kashmir, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and Uttar Pradesh), the Vidhan Parishad serves as the upper house of a bicameral legislature

Legislative Council of Hong Kong (the legislature of Hong Kong reverted to its original name after the 1998 Hong Kong general election)


4Change

The CCC ran a group of 21 candidates (dubbed by detractors the "Gang of 21", an allusion to the Gang of Four) standing for the Legislative Council, the NSW Upper House of Parliament .

Act Against Slavery

The bill was passed by the Assembly, but was stalled by the Legislative Council and died at the end of the session.

Adolphus William Young

He was High Sheriff of New South Wales from 1842 to 1849 and was a representative for the Port Phillip District in the Legislative Council before Victoria was formed into a separate colony.

Apple Daily

The newspaper uncovered many political scandals, including a former member of the Legislative Council not reporting conflict of interest in 2000, a former Financial Secretary Antony Leung for tax evasion on a Lexus LS 430 which saved him HK$50,000 (USD $6,400), and many others, leading to the convictions or forced resignations of those individuals.

Barry Pullen

He was a Minister in the Cain and Kirner Labor Victorian State Governments, and held the Legislative Council seat of Melbourne in the Victorian Parliament from 1982–1999.

Causeway Bay Typhoon Shelter

In December 1903 a Legislative Council member, Gershom Stewart, suggested that the typhoon shelter be expanded.

Charles-Étienne Chaussegros de Léry

He apprenticed in law with Michel-Amable Berthelot Dartigny but then was hired as clerk assistant and assistant of the translator for the Legislative Council.

Clare Christian

She's a former member of the Legislative Council and former Health Minister of the Isle of Man Government.

Don Nardella

He has been an Australian Labor Party member of the Victorian Parliament since 1992, sitting first in the Legislative Council for Melbourne North Province and then in the Legislative Assembly for Melton.

Ernest Randell

The son of George Randell, who was a member of the Legislative Council, and Mary Louise Smith (his father's second wife), Randell was born in Perth, where he was raised.

Geoff Cannell

In 1998 he was elected the MHK for Onchan, following Ray Kniveton's elevation to the Legislative Council.

Kelly Vincent

She was elected at the 2010 state election for the Dignity for Disability party to the eleventh and last seat for an eight-year term in the 22-member Legislative Council in the Parliament of South Australia.

Kevin Grantham

He currently serves on the Agriculture, Natural Resources, & Energy Committee; the Appropriations Committee; the Legislative Council; and the State, Veteran, & Military Affairs Committee.

Legislative Council of Manitoba

There, the Legislative Council had been retained and was seen as a means to protect the interests of religious and linguistic minorities inside the province.

Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, 1860–1864

:6 Newtown MLA Alexander McArthur was appointed to the Legislative Council on 20 June 1861.

Mike Rendell

Rendell was elected to the Legislative Council at the 2005 general election, but did not stand for re-election in the 2009 general election.

Ng Fung Hong

A Legislative Council panel urged action on the matter by the Hong Kong government, which at this time said it was non-committal.

Paul Cheng

He was first appointed to Legislative Council in 1988 and was the LegCo member for the Commercial (First) constituency (1995–97) and also the Provisional Legislative Council (1996–98).

Politics of Brunei

The five councils are the Privy Council, Council of Succession, Religious Council, Council of Ministers and the Legislative Council.

Brunei has a Legislative Council with 36 appointed members, that only has consultative tasks.

Roman Catholic Diocese of Hong Kong

On 8 July 2004, the Legislative Council passed the Education (Amendment) Bill.

Senate of Bermuda

In 1888, the Privy Council was split into an Executive Council, which later became the Cabinet, and a Legislative Council, which became the upper house of Parliament, akin to the House of Lords, in the United Kingdom, although its members were appointed, rather than being hereditary peers.

Thomas Price

Price obtained the double dissolution on the issue of reform to the Legislative Council.

Wymond Ogilvy Hamley

The role of collector of customs made him a member of the Legislative Council.

Yuet Wai Kan

His brother, Sir Yuet Keung Kan, was the Senior Unofficial Member of the Legislative Council and Executive Council of Hong Kong.


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Aignan-Aimé Massue

His brother Louis Massue served as a member of the Legislative Council for the Province of Canada.

Anne Craine

Despite having been a Member of the House of Keys for only three years she saw off tough competition from Leonard Singer (who had resigned as a member of the Legislative Council in order to stand for the House of Keys, but was unsuccessful with 1621 votes).

Benjamin Beaupré

His daughter Joséphine married Pierre-Urgel Archambault, who became a member of the legislative council and also served as mayor of L'Assomption.

Bernie Kilgariff

Kilgariff was one of the founders of the Country Liberal Party, an independent political party consisting of Country Party and Liberal Party members, to field candidates at the 1974 Legislative Council elections.

Bob Rowland Smith

He became Leader of the National Party in the Legislative Council in 1978 and Deputy Leader of the Government in 1988, when the Greiner Coalition won government.

Brunei People's Party

The first meeting of the Legislative Council was scheduled on December 5, 1962 and PRB stated that it would submit a resolution for the return of British North Borneo and Sarawak to Brunei in order to form an independent state known as the North Borneo Federation, the rejection of Brunei's entry into Malaysia and the independence of Brunei in 1963.

C. A. Shah

In 1963, although a Muslim, Sidiq Koya, was elected, the Government continued with its policy and nominated Ra farmer, Shah, also a Muslim, to the Legislative Council.

Chan Kin-por

After serving as the Chief Executive of the Hong Kong office of Munich Re for four years, Chan became a member of the Munich Re China Advisory Board and focused on his Legislative Council role.

Court–Cowan Ministry

Graham Kierath and Kevin Minson adopted his portfolios, whilst Norman Moore was elected leader of the Government in the Legislative Council four days later.

Cyd Ho

In 2007, when the death of Ma Lik vacated a Hong Kong Island Legislative Council seat, she originally decided to run in the by-election, but later she decided against.

Donald Clive Anderson

While in Australia, Anderson visited Il Parran, Glenn Innes (1923), Hobart (August 1924), visiting Amy Gant, Anderson's mother's first cousin wife of Tetley Gant, member of the Tasmanian Legislative Council.

Édouard Masson

Isidore-Édouard-Candide Masson (1826–1875), member of the Legislative Council of the Province of Canada

Electoral region of South Metropolitan

Four of the members elected in 1989 had previously been members of the Legislative Council—Clive Griffiths and Phillip Pendal (both South Central Metropolitan), John Halden (North Metropolitan) and Garry Kelly (South Metropolitan).

Étienne Guy

His brother, Louis Guy, practiced as a surveyor and notary and was a member of the legislative council.

Gavin Jennings

Jennings won preselection for the safe Labor Legislative Council seat of Melbourne Province in advance of the 1999 state election, and was thus easily elected.

George Bryson

George Bryson Jr., a member of the Legislative Council of Quebec, son of the above

George Cole

George Ward Cole (1793–1879), Australian politician, member of Victorian Legislative Council

Government of Zamboanga City

On recommendation of Governor John J. Pershing, the Legislative Council of the Moro Province passed on September 15, 1911, Act No. 272, converting the municipality of Zamboanga into a city with a commission form of government.

Henry Binns

One of his most important achievements as a member of the Legislative Council before the grant of responsible government in 1893 was his role in obtaining the extension of the Natal Government Railways line to Harrismith in the neighbouring Orange Free State republic.

Henry Kitchener, 2nd Earl Kitchener

After retiring he remained in Jamaica where he was a property owner and he got involved in local politics and contested the St Andrew Parish in the Legislative Council elections but was not elected.

Hope Fleming Mackenzie

He ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the Legislative Assembly in 1859 and then was elected in an 1860 by-election held after Malcolm Cameron was named to the Legislative Council.

James Hislop

James Gordon Hislop (1895–1972), Australian physician and politician, sat for Metropolitan Province in Western Australian Legislative Council

John Sharples

John Sharples, Sr. (1814–1876), Canadian politician and member of the Legislative Council of Quebec

John Thomas Campbell

In 1824, Governor Sir Thomas Brisbane suggested his name for appointment to the new Legislative Council.

Jorge Obeid

He became a member of the legislative council of Santa Fe and, as the President of the Council, became the mayor when the incumbent resigned.

Karnik

Ganesh Karnik, Indian politician and Member of Legislative Council at Karnataka Legislative Council

Koodali

Among the members of the family are KT Kunhikammaran Nambiar, a member of the Madras Legislative Council and KT Kunhiraman Nambiar, volunteer of Indian National Congress and participant in Salt Satyagraha in Malabar, and later president of Kerala's Pradesh Congress Committee, and member of the undivided Communist Party of India.

Krishna Reddy

K. S. Reddy (Krishna S. Reddy), Fiji Indian school teacher and member of the Legislative Council

Lowey

Edmund Lowey, Member of the Legislative Council in the Isle of Man

Madhur Chaturvedi

Within a year of his joining Swatantra Bharat, Madhur was deputed to cover the Vidhan Parishad (Legislative Council).

Mary Anderson

Mary Patricia Anderson (1887–1966), one of the first women appointed to the New Zealand Legislative Council

Merriott

Francis Trask (1840 – 6 April 1910) was a 20th-century Member of the New Zealand Legislative Council and Mayor of Nelson.

Mohan Reddy

B. Mohan Reddy - Indian politician and Member of Legislative Council

Muhammad Faiyaz Ali Khan

Nawab Sir Muhammad Faiyaz Ali Khan Bahadur, the Nawab of Pahasu, GBE, KCSI, KCIE, KCVO, MBE; (1851–1922) was a member of Governor General' Council of the United Provinces and Member of the Legislative council of United Provinces.

Nauruan parliamentary election, 1966

The new Legislative Council opened on 31 January 1966, which marked the twentieth anniversary of the return to Nauru of survivors of the World War II deportation of islanders during the Japanese occupation.

Pat Dickie

Dickie entered government in following a by-election for the Legislative Council seat of Ballarat Province in March 1956, where he ran as a candidate for the Liberal Party, a seat which he continued to hold until his resignation from parliament in August 1978.

Poon Chi-fai

He was subsequently appointed to the Kwun Tong District Board in 1985 and elected to the Legislative Council in the first indirect election in 1985 through Kwun Tong electoral college constituency consisting of members of the Kwun Tong District Board and reelected in 1988.

Poykayil Johannan

Johannan was also twice nominated, in the years 1921 and 1931, to the Sree Moolam Praja Sabha, the legislative council of the princely state of Travancore.

Pudukkottai Legislative Council

Pudukkottai Legislative Council was the legislative assembly which functioned in the princely state of Pudukkottai from 1924 to 1948.

Robert McMillan

Robert Thomas McMillan (1887–1962), member of the New Zealand Legislative Council

Sarawak Malaysian People's Association

However,they failed to unseat Taib from the State Government,and they tried it again in 1991.However,things were no longer in favor for them,as the Barisan Nasional, led by Taib had an overwhelming victory,where it gains 49 out of 56 seats in the State Legislative Council.

Shaoquett Moselmane

In 1995, Moselmane was elected to Rockdale City Council in Sydney's south and served as mayor from 2001 to 2003, from 2005 to 2006, and again in 2009 until his appointment to the Legislative Council.

St. John's College, University of Hong Kong

Dr. Yeung Sum, Ex-Chairman of the Democratic Party, Legislative Council member

Swaine

John Joseph Swaine (born 1932), President of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong

Syed Hussain

In 1975, he resigned as the chairman of the Legislative Council after his party lost its majority in the Council following assumption of Chief Ministership by Sheikh Abdullah.

Vijay R. Singh

In the 1966 election, he was elected to the Legislative Council from the East-Central cross-voting seat which covered Vanua Levu and Lau.

William Henry Hoare Vincent

In 1887 he joined the Indian Civil Service, rising to vice-president of the legislative council of India and a member of the Council of India from 1923 to 1931.

William Plowden

William Chichele Plowden (1832–1915), civil servant; Member of the Legislative Council in India; Liberal Member of Parliament