South Western Province (Victoria)

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South Western Province
VictoriaLegislative Council
South-West Province 1856.png
South-Western Province, 1856
State Victoria
Created1856
Abolished1979

South Western Province was an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Council. [1] [2]

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It was one of the six original upper house Provinces of the bi-cameral Victorian Parliament created in November 1856, initially it had five members. [1] Victoria was a colony in Australia when South-Western Province was created.

The area of South Western Province was defined in the Victoria Constitution Act, 1855, as "Including the Counties of Grant, Grenville, and Polwarth." [3] The Act came into effect in 1856.

It was finally abolished in 1979 after the redistribution of 1976 when several new provinces were created, including Geelong Province. [2]

Members for South Western Province

These were members of the upper house province of the Victorian Legislative Council, five members initially. [1] Three members after the redistribution of provinces in 1882, [4] [5] South Eastern, South Yarra, North Yarra, North Eastern, North Central, Melbourne East, Melbourne North, Melbourne South, Melbourne West and Wellington Provinces were created. Two members after another redistribution of provinces in 1904 when Melbourne South and Melbourne West Provinces (and others) were created. [2]

Member 1PartyYearMember 2PartyMember 3PartyMember 4PartyMember 5Party
  James Henty   1856   William Roope    James Cowie    Robert Hope    James Strachan  
1858   George Coppin  
1860   John McCrae  
1862
1863   Caleb Jenner  
1864   John Lowe  
1866   George Rolfe  
1867   Thomas Learmonth  
1867   Robert Hope  
1868
1869   Philip Russell  
1870   John Cumming  
1870
1872
1874   Henry Cuthbert  
1875   George Belcher  
1876
1878
1880   Philip Russell  
  Francis Ormond   1882
1882  
1884
1886   Joseph Connor  
1886   William Robertson  
1886
1888   Sidney Austin  
  Donald Wallace   1889
1890
1892
1894
  Joseph Grey   1895
  Henry Wrixon   1896
1896
1898
1899   Thomas Harwood  
1900
1902
1904  
1907
1910
  Austin Austin   1910
1912   Horace Richardson  
1913
1916
  Nationalist 1917  Nationalist
1919
1922
  Howard Hitchcock Nationalist 1925
1928
  Gordon McArthur Nationalist 1931
  United Australia 1931  United Australia
1934   John Percy Jones United Australia
1937
1940   Allan McDonald Country
1943
  Liberal 1945
1946
1947  Independent
  Liberal and Country 1949   Liberal and Country
1952   Don Ferguson Labor
1955
1958   Geoffrey Thom Liberal and Country
1961
1964
  Stanley Gleeson Liberal 1965   Liberal
1967
1970   Glyn Jenkins Liberal
1973
 

Election results

1973 Victorian state election: South Western Province
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Stan Gleeson 45,41845.0+6.1
Labor Stanley Nash40,17939.8-0.4
Democratic Labor James Crockett7,9947.9-6.5
Country Gilbert Anderson7,4017.3+0.8
Total formal votes100,99296.5-0.4
Informal votes3,6813.5+0.4
Turnout 104,67394.3-1.3
Two-party-preferred result
Liberal Stan Gleeson 58,67858.1+3.3
Labor Stanley Nash42,31441.9-3.3
Liberal hold Swing +3.3

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Sweetman, Edward (1920). Constitutional Development of Victoria, 1851-6. Whitcombe & Tombs Limited. p.  182 . Retrieved 19 June 2013.
  2. 1 2 3 "Re-Member (Former Members)". State Government of Victoria. Retrieved 15 May 2013.
  3. "Victoria Constitution Act 1855" (PDF). Retrieved 19 June 2013.
  4. "The Legislative Council Act 1881". Australasian Legal Information Institute. Retrieved 30 March 2014.
  5. Victorian Hansard, Session 1883 (PDF). Vol. 42. John Ferres, Melb. 1883.

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