The Victorian government's Wimmera Southern Mallee subregion is part of the Grampians region in western Victoria. It includes most of what is considered the Wimmera, and part of the southern Mallee region. The subregion is based on the social catchment of Horsham, its main settlement.
Horsham is a regional city in the Wimmera region of western Victoria, Australia. Located on a bend in the Wimmera River, Horsham is approximately 300 kilometres (190 mi) northwest of the state capital Melbourne. As of the 2021 census, Horsham had a population of 20,429. It is the most populous city in Wimmera, and the main administrative centre for the Rural City of Horsham local government area. It is the eleventh largest city in Victoria after Melbourne, Geelong, Ballarat, Bendigo, Wodonga, Mildura, Shepparton, Warrnambool, Traralgon, and Wangaratta.
The Division of Mallee is an Australian Electoral Division in the state of Victoria. It is located in the far north-west of the state, adjoining the border with South Australia in the west, and the Murray River in the north. At 81,962 square kilometres (31,646 sq mi), it is the largest Division in Victoria. It includes the centres of Mildura, Ouyen, Swan Hill, St Arnaud, Warracknabeal, Stawell, Horsham and Maryborough.
The Wimmera River, an inland intermittent river of the Wimmera catchment, is located in the Grampians and Wimmera regions of the Australian state of Victoria. Rising in the Pyrenees, on the northern slopes of the Great Dividing Range, the Wimmera River flows generally north by west and drains into Lake Hindmarsh and Lake Albacutya, a series of ephemeral lakes that, whilst they do not directly empty into a defined watercourse, form part of the Murray River catchment of the Murray-Darling basin.
The Electoral district of Swan Hill was a rural Lower House electoral district of the Victorian Parliament. It was located within the Northern Victoria Region of the Legislative Council.
The Shire of Warracknabeal was a local government area about 200 kilometres (124 mi) west-northwest of Bendigo and 60 kilometres (37 mi) north of Horsham, in western Victoria, Australia. The shire covered an area of 1,839 square kilometres (710.0 sq mi), and existed from 1891 until 1995.
The City of Stawell was a local government area about 230 kilometres (143 mi) west-northwest of Melbourne, the state capital of Victoria, Australia. The city covered an area of 23.73 square kilometres (9.2 sq mi), and existed from 1869 until 1995. Its area was surrounded by the separate and largely rural Shire of Stawell.
The City of Horsham was a local government area about 290 kilometres (180 mi) west-northwest of Melbourne, the state capital of Victoria, Australia. The munincipality covered an area of 23.31 square kilometres (9.0 sq mi), and existed from 1882 until 1994.
The Shire of Arapiles was a local government area in the Wimmera region of western Victoria, Australia. The shire covered an area of 2,342.62 square kilometres (904.5 sq mi), and existed from 1888 until 1995.
The Shire of Dimboola was a local government area in the Wimmera region of western Victoria, Australia. The shire covered an area of 4,856 square kilometres (1,874.9 sq mi), and existed from 1885 until 1995.
The Shire of Kaniva was a local government area in the Wimmera region of western Victoria, Australia, near the South Australian town of Bordertown. The shire covered an area of 3,082.11 square kilometres (1,190.0 sq mi), and existed from 1891 until 1995.
The Shire of Lowan was a local government area in the Wimmera region of western Victoria, Australia. The shire covered an area of 2,861 square kilometres (1,104.6 sq mi), and existed from 1875 until 1995.
The Shire of Wimmera was a local government area in the Wimmera region of western Victoria, Australia. The municipality covered an area of 2,611 square kilometres (1,008.1 sq mi), and existed from 1862 until 1995. Although its shire offices were located in Horsham, Horsham itself was governed by a separate council after it succeeded in 1882.
Robert Shannon King was an Australian politician. Born in Warracknabeal, Victoria, he attended Carey Baptist Grammar School in Melbourne before serving in the military 1940–45. He returned to Warracknabeal as a farmer and grazier, and became an official of the Victorian Country Party. In 1958, he was elected to the Australian House of Representatives as the Country Party member for Wimmera. On 5 October 1971 he was appointed Assistant Minister assisting the Minister for Primary Industry, holding that this position until the McMahon Government's defeat on 5 December 1972.
The Wimmera Football League is a major Australian rules country league based in Western Victoria, with clubs located in towns in the Wimmera region: the regional centres along the Western Highway from Ararat to Nhill as well as Minyip-Murtoa and Warracknabeal.
This article provides information on candidates who stood for the 1977 Australian federal election. The election was held on 10 December 1977.
This is a list of electoral results for the Division of Wimmera in Australian federal elections from the division's creation in 1901 until its abolition in 1977.
The electoral district of Wimmera was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria.
North Western Province was an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Council (Australia), created in 1856 and was abolished in 2006.
Crowlands was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian colony of Victoria from 1859 to 1877. It was located in north-western Victoria and included the town of Swan Hill.
