Eumemmerring Province

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Eumemmerring Province
VictoriaLegislative Council
State Victoria
Created1985
Abolished2006

Eumemmerring Province was an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Council. It existed as a two-member electorate from 1985 to 2006, with members holding alternating eight-year terms. It was a marginal seat throughout its existence, changing parties in the large landslide elections of 1992 and 2002. It was abolished from the 2006 state election in the wake of the Bracks Labor government's reform of the Legislative Council.

It was located on the south-eastern fringe of Melbourne. In 2002, when it was last contested, it covered an area of 2,199 km2 and included the suburbs of Berwick, Cockatoo, Dandenong, Emerald, Gembrook, Narre Warren, Warburton, and Yarra Junction.

Members for Eumemmerring Province

Member 1PartyYear
  Fred Van Buren Labor 1985 Member 2Party
1988   Bob Ives Labor
  Ron Wells Liberal 1992
1996   Neil Lucas Liberal
  Gordon Rich-Phillips Liberal 1999
2002   Adem Somyurek Labor

Election results

2002 Victorian state election: Eumemmerring Province
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labor Adem Somyurek 67,53452.9+8.4
Liberal Mick Morland46,12036.1−10.1
Greens Val Kay14,05911.0+11.0
Total formal votes127,71395.8−0.1
Informal votes5,5464.2+0.1
Turnout 133,25993.4
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Adem Somyurek 76,43859.9+10.5
Liberal Mick Morland51,23040.1−10.5
Labor gain from Liberal Swing +10.5