East Yarra Province

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East Yarra Province
VictoriaLegislative Council
State Victoria
Created1904
Abolished2006
DemographicMetropolitan

East Yarra Province was an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Council until 2006. It was abolished from the 2006 state election in the wake of the Bracks Labor government's reform of the Legislative Council.

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Members for East Yarra Province

Member 1PartyYearMember 2Party
  James Balfour Unaligned 1904   Edward Miller Unaligned
1907
1910
1913   Robert Beckett Non-Labor
  James Merritt Non-Labor 1913
1916
  Nationalist 1917   William Edgar Nationalist
1919
1922
1925
  George Swinburne Nationalist 1928
  Robert Menzies Nationalist 1928
  Clifden Eager Nationalist 1930
1931
  United Australia 1931  United Australia
1934
1937
1940
1943
  Liberal 1945  Liberal
1946
1948   Ewen Cameron Liberal
  Liberal and Country 1949  Liberal and Country
1949
  Independent 1952
1955
  Dick Hamer Liberal and Country 1958
1961
1964   Bill Campbell Liberal and Country
1964
  Liberal 1965  Liberal
1967
1970
  Haddon Storey Liberal 1971
1973
1976
1979
1982
1983   Mark Birrell Liberal
1985
1988
1992
  David Davis Liberal 1996
1999
2002   Richard Dalla-Riva Liberal

Election results

2002 Victorian state election: East Yarra Province
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal David Davis 60,37945.6−10.8
Labor Tom Wilson47,74136.1+2.9
Greens Peter Campbell20,31115.3+15.3
Democrats Kent Winzer2,0971.6−8.8
Independent Bill French1,0030.8+0.8
Hope Ronald Haack7920.6+0.6
Total formal votes132,32396.4−1.0
Informal votes4,9403.6+1.0
Turnout 137,26392.9
Two-party-preferred result
Liberal David Davis 66,30450.1−9.9
Labor Tom Wilson66,01949.9+9.9
Liberal hold Swing −9.9

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