Higinbotham Province
Higinbotham Province was an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Council.[1] It existed as a two-member electorate from 1937 to 2006, with members serving alternating eight-year terms. It was considered a safe seat for the Liberal throughout its history, though it was won by Labor candidate Noel Pullen in Labor's landslide victory at the 2002 state election. It was abolished from the 2006 state election in the wake of the Bracks Labor government's reform of the Legislative Council.
| Higinbotham Victoria—Legislative Council | |
|---|---|
| State | Victoria |
| Created | 1937 |
| Abolished | 2006 |
| Area | 108 km2 (41.7 sq mi) |
| Demographic | Metropolitan |
It was located in the south-east of Melbourne. In 2002, when it was last contested, it covered an area of 108 km2 and included the suburbs of Bentleigh, Black Rock, Brighton, Cheltenham, Mentone, Moorabbin, Mordialloc and Sandringham.
Members for Higinbotham Province
| Member 1 | Party | Year | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| James Kennedy | United Australia | 1937 | Member 2 | Party | ||
| 1940 | James Disney | United Australia | ||||
| 1943 | ||||||
| Liberal | 1945 | Liberal | ||||
| 1946 | Arthur Warner | Liberal | ||||
| Liberal and Country | 1949 | Liberal and Country | ||||
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| Lindsay Thompson | Liberal and Country | 1954 | ||||
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| 1964 | Baron Snider | Liberal and Country | ||||
| Liberal | 1965 | Liberal | ||||
| 1967 | Murray Hamilton | Liberal | ||||
| William Fry | Liberal | 1967 | ||||
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| Robert Lawson | Liberal | 1979 | ||||
| 1982 | Geoffrey Connard | Liberal | ||||
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| 1988 | ||||||
| Chris Strong | Liberal | 1992 | ||||
| 1996 | John Ross | Liberal | ||||
| 1999 | ||||||
| 2002 | Noel Pullen | Labor | ||||
Election results
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal | Michael Heffernan | 60,580 | 45.7 | -10.1 | |
| Labor | Noel Pullen | 52,445 | 39.6 | +36.9 | |
| Greens | Tony McDermott | 16,451 | 12.4 | +12.4 | |
| Democrats | Derek Wilson | 2,952 | 2.2 | -39.1 | |
| Total formal votes | 132,428 | 97.2 | +0.3 | ||
| Informal votes | 3,845 | 2.8 | -0.3 | ||
| Turnout | 136,273 | 92.7 | |||
| Two-party-preferred result | |||||
| Labor | Noel Pullen | 66,711 | 50.4 | +6.5 | |
| Liberal | Michael Heffernan | 65,717 | 49.6 | -6.5 | |
| Labor gain from Liberal | Swing | +6.5 | |||
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