Electoral district of Fitzroy (Victoria)

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Fitzroy
VictoriaLegislative Assembly
State Victoria
Dates current1877–1927, 1958–1967
DemographicMetropolitan

The electoral district of Fitzroy was an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Assembly in the British colony and later Australian state of Victoria, centred on the inner-Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy.

Members for Fitzroy

First incarnation (1877–1927)
(Dual-member electorate until 1904)
MemberPartyTermMemberPartyTerm
  Albert Tucker Unaligned1877–1900
  Robert MacGregor Unaligned1877–1879
  Cuthbert Blackett Unaligned1879–1880
  William Vale Unaligned1880–1881
  Cuthbert Blackett Unaligned1881–1883
  Robert Reid Unaligned1883–1889
  Robert Best Unaligned1889–1901
  John Billson Labor 1900–1924
  Patrick O'Connor Labor 1901–1902
  Robert Barr Ministerialist1902–1904
    
  Maurice Blackburn Labor 1925–1927
Second incarnation (1958–1967)
MemberPartyTerm
  Denis Lovegrove   Labor  1958–1967

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