Wellington Province (Victoria)
Wellington Province was an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Council, the upper house of the Victorian Parliament.[1]
| Wellington Province Victoria—Legislative Council | |
|---|---|
| State | Victoria |
| Created | 1882 |
| Abolished | 1940 |
Wellington Province was created in the redistribution of provinces in 1882, under which the Central and Eastern Provinces were abolished and the Wellington, North Central, South Yarra, North Yarra, South Eastern and Melbourne Provinces were formed.[1]
Wellington Province was defined by the Legislative Council Act 1881 (which took effect from the 1882 elections) as consisting of the following divisions: Talbot Shire, Talbot Borough, Clunes, Tullaroop, Carisbrook, Maryborough, Creswick Shire, Creswick Borough, Bungaree, Ballaarat City, Ballaarat East and Sebastopol.[2]
Wellington was abolished in 1940, soon after new provinces of Ballarat, Doutta Galla, Higinbotham and Monash were created in 1937.[1]
Members for Wellington Province
Three members were elected to the province initially; four from the expansion of the Council in 1889;[3] two from the redistribution of 1904 when several new provinces including Bendigo, Melbourne West and Melbourne North were created.[1]
| Member 1 | Party | Year | Member 2 | Party | Member 3 | Party | |||
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| Henry Cuthbert | 1882 | George Belcher | James Campbell | ||||||
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| 1886 | David Ham | ||||||||
| 1886 | Henry Gore | ||||||||
| 1888 | Member 4 | Party | |||||||
| 1889 | Edward Morey | ||||||||
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| 1892 | Emanuel Steinfeld | ||||||||
| 1893 | Thomas Wanliss | ||||||||
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| 1898 | John Y. McDonald | ||||||||
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| Frederick Brawn | Non-Labor | 1907 | |||||||
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| Nationalist | 1917 | Alexander Bell | Nationalist | ||||||
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| 1931 | Alfred Pittard | Nationalist | |||||||
| United Australia | 1931 | United Australia | |||||||
| George Bolster | United Australia | 1934 | |||||||
References
- "Re-Member (Former Members)". Parliament of Victoria. Retrieved 21 April 2014.
- "The Legislative Council Act 1881". Australasian Legal Information Institute. Retrieved 16 June 2013.
- "The Legislative Council Elections". The Argus. 30 August 1889. Retrieved 16 May 2013.