North Eastern Province (Victoria)
North Eastern Province (originally North-Eastern Province) was an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Council. It was created in the redistribution of provinces in 1882 when the original provinces[1] of Central and Eastern Provinces were abolished. The new North Eastern, North Central, Melbourne East, Melbourne North, Melbourne South and Melbourne West Provinces were then created.[2]
| North Eastern Province Victoria—Legislative Council | |
|---|---|
| State | Victoria |
| Created | 1882 |
| Abolished | 2006 |
North Eastern Province was created and defined by the Legislative Council Act 1881 (taking effect from the 1882 elections) as consisting of the following divisions: Chiltern, Rutherglen, North Ovens, Beechworth, Bright, Oxley, Benalla, Euroa, Yarrawonga, Shepparton, Mansfield, Howqua, Goulburn and Seymour .[3]
North Eastern Province was abolished at the 2006 state election in the wake of the Bracks Labor government's reform of the Legislative Council.
Members for North Eastern Province
Three members initially, two after the 1904 redistribution of provinces, Melbourne East Province and others were created.[2]
| Member 1 | Party | Year | Member 2 | Party | Member 3 | Party | |||
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| Robert Anderson | 1882 | Patrick Hanna | John Wallace | ||||||
| Frederick Brown | 1883 | ||||||||
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| 1888 | John Turner | ||||||||
| 1888 | James Butters | ||||||||
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| 1892 | Arthur Sachse | ||||||||
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| 1901 | William Orr | ||||||||
| 1902 | |||||||||
| Willis Little | 1903 | ||||||||
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| William Kendell | Non-Labor | 1916 | |||||||
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| Nationalist | 1917 | Nationalist | |||||||
| 1919 | |||||||||
| 1920 | John Harris | Country | |||||||
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| Albert Zwar | Country | 1922 | |||||||
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| Percival Inchbold | Country | 1935 | |||||||
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| Liberal Country | 1938 | ||||||||
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| Country | 1943 | ||||||||
| 1946 | Ivan Swinburne | Country | |||||||
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| Keith Bradbury | Country | 1953 | |||||||
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| 1976 | David Evans | National | |||||||
| Bill Baxter | National | 1978 | |||||||
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| 1982 | |||||||||
| Bill Baxter | National | 1985 | |||||||
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| 1992 | |||||||||
| 1996 | Jeanette Powell | National | |||||||
| 1999 | |||||||||
| 2002 | Wendy Lovell | Liberal | |||||||
Election results
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal | Wendy Lovell | 41,725 | 33.3 | +32.4 | |
| Labor | Jackie Crothers | 40,279 | 32.2 | -3.4 | |
| National | Kerrin Chambers | 30,134 | 24.1 | -31.4 | |
| Greens | Carol Kunert | 7,243 | 5.8 | +5.8 | |
| Democrats | Leanne Pleash | 3,465 | 2.8 | -5.2 | |
| Christian Democrats | Phil Seymour | 2,332 | 1.9 | +1.9 | |
| Total formal votes | 125,178 | 95.7 | -1.2 | ||
| Informal votes | 5,576 | 4.3 | +1.2 | ||
| Turnout | 130,754 | 93.3 | |||
| Two-party-preferred result | |||||
| Liberal | Wendy Lovell | 73,538 | 58.7 | +58.7 | |
| Labor | Jackie Crothers | 51,640 | 41.3 | +1.4 | |
| Liberal gain from National | Swing | N/A | |||
References
- Edward Sweetman (1920). Constitutional Development of Victoria, 1851-6. Whitcombe & Tombs Limited. p. 182. Retrieved 14 May 2013.
- "Re-Member (Former Members)". State Government of Victoria. Retrieved 14 May 2013.
- "The Legislative Council Act 1881". Australasian Legal Information Institute. Retrieved 14 June 2013.