3rd General Election: May 1837
Party composition: Liberal 11, Conservative 4. Total Assembly membership 15.
A new election was called by Chief Justice Henry John Boulton after he discovered some of the writs from the previous election were not sealed. This was disputed by many Reformers and many did not run for election. However, in this election the Reformers took most of the seats.
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