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The Victorian Legislative Assembly is the lower house of the bicameral Parliament of Victoria in Australia; the upper house being the Victorian Legislative Council. Both houses sit at Parliament House in Spring Street, Melbourne.
Ballarat East was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria. Prior to its abolition, it was a 3,323 km² part-urban and part-rural electorate covering areas to the east of the regional centre of Ballarat. It included the Ballarat suburbs of Ballarat East, Bakery Hill, Golden Point, Eureka, Canadian, Mount Pleasant, Mount Clear, Mount Helen and Warrenheip, and the rural towns of Ballan, Buninyong, Bungaree, Creswick, Daylesford, Dunnstown, Hepburn Springs, Kyneton, Lal Lal, Malmsbury, Meredith and Steiglitz. The electorate had a population of 54,127 as of the 2006 census, with 40,578 enrolled electors at the 2010 state election.
The Electoral district of Rodney was a Victorian Legislative Assembly electorate in Northern Victoria.
The lower houses of the parliaments of the states and territories of Australia are divided into electoral districts. Most electoral districts send a single member to a state or territory's parliament using the preferential method of voting. The area of a state electoral district is dependent upon the Electoral Acts in the various states and vary in area between them. At present, there are 409 state electoral districts in Australia.
Electoral district of Moorabbin was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria.
The electoral district of Springvale was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria. It was replaced in 2002, by the electoral districts of Lyndhurst and Mulgrave.
Electoral district of Reservoir was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria.
The electoral district of Anglesey was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria.
The electoral district of Wimmera was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria.
Dundas was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria from 1856 to 1976. It covered a region of western Victoria and consisted of the counties of Dundas and Follett.
Castlemaine Boroughs was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria from 1856 to 1859. It included the towns Castlemaine, Muckleford, Harcourt and Elphinstone, all roughly 110 to 130 km north-west of Melbourne. The boundaries included non-continuous urban areas.
Collingwood was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria from 1856 to 1958. It centred on the Melbourne suburb of Collingwood, Victoria.
West Melbourne was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria from 1859 to 1904.
West Bourke was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria from 1856 to 1904.
North Grant was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria from 1856 to 1859. It was bordered on the north by the Werribee River and included the town of Buninyong. The district of North Grant was one of the initial districts of the first Victorian Legislative Assembly, 1856. North Grant was incorporated into the electoral district of Grenville in 1859.
Polwarth, Ripon, Hampden and South Grenville was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria from 1856 to 1859. It was based in western Victoria.
Avoca was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria from 1859 to 1889. It was based in northern Victoria. It was defined by the 1858 Electoral Act as:
Commencing at the source of the River Avoca in the Main Dividing Range ; thence northwards by that river and by a line bearing north to the River Murray ; thence by the River Murray to the River Loddon; thence south-wards by the River Loddon to McNeil's Creek; thence by McNeil's Creek to the Main Dividing Range; and thence westerly by the Main Dividing Range to the commencing point aforesaid, including the parish of Tarnagulla.
Creswick was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the colony, and later Australian state of Victoria centred on the town of Creswick from 1859 to 1904.
Grenville was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria from 1859 to 1927. It was located in western Victoria, south of Ballarat.
North Melbourne was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria from 1859 to 1927.
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- "Re-Member (Former Members)". State Government of Victoria. Retrieved 23 May 2014.
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