Monash Province

Monash Province Victoria—Legislative Council
State	Victoria
Created	1937
Abolished	2006
Namesake	John Monash

Monash 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.

Members for Monash Province

Member 1		Party	Year
	Frank Clarke	United Australia	1937	Member 2		Party
			1940		Archibald Crofts	United Australia
			1942		Frank Beaurepaire [r]	United Australia
			1943
			1943		Frank Beaurepaire	United Australia
		Liberal	1945			Liberal
			1946
		Liberal and Country	1949			Liberal and Country
			1949
			1952		Thomas Brennan	Labor
			1955			Labor (A-C)
	Charles Gawith	Liberal and Country	1955
			1955
			1958		Graham Nicol	Liberal and Country
			1961
			1964
		Liberal	1965			Liberal
	Lindsay Thompson	Liberal	1967
			1970
	Charles Hider	Liberal	1970
			1973
			1976		James Guest	Liberal
	Don Hayward	Liberal	1979
			1982
	Reg Macey	Liberal	1985
			1988
	Louise Asher	Liberal	1992
			1996		Peter Katsambanis	Liberal
	Andrea Coote	Liberal	1999
			2002		Johan Scheffer	Labor

^[r] Beaurepaire resigned in August 1943, re-elected in October 1943

Election results

Main article: Electoral results for the Monash Province

2002 Victorian state election: Monash Province

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Peter Katsambanis	55,855	43.5	−8.1
	Labor	Johan Scheffer	46,697	36.3	−1.2
	Greens	Jo Lewis	23,154	18.0	+18.0
	Democrats	David Zemdegs	2,795	2.2	−5.3
Total formal votes			128,501	97.0	+0.2
Informal votes			4,015	3.0	−0.2
Turnout			132,516	89.2
Two-party-preferred result
	Labor	Johan Scheffer	66,740	51.9	+7.5
	Liberal	Peter Katsambanis	61,761	48.1	−7.5
	Labor gain from Liberal		Swing	+7.5

References

• "Find a Member". State Government of Victoria. Retrieved 17 July 2025.