Central Province (Victoria)
Central Province Victoria—Legislative Council | |
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State | Victoria |
Created | 1856 |
Abolished | 1882 |
Electors | 7506 (in 1856)[1] |
Demographic | Metropolitan |
Central Province was an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Council.[2][3] 37°48′S 144°55′E / 37.800°S 144.917°E
Creation
[edit]Central was one of the six original upper house Provinces of the bi-cameral Victorian Parliament created in November 1856.[2] The area of the province, centered on Melbourne was defined in the Victoria Constitution Act 1855.[4] Central Province included the Electoral Districts of Melbourne, St Kilda, Collingwood, South Melbourne, Richmond and Williamstown as well as parts of other adjoining districts.[5]
Abolition
[edit]Central Province was abolished in the redistribution of provinces in 1882. James Lorimer and William Edward Hearn transferred from Central to Melbourne Province; Theodotus Sumner transferred to North Yarra Province; James MacBain and James Graham transferred to South Yarra Province that year.[3]
Members
[edit]These were members of the upper house province of the Victorian Legislative Council.[2]
Year | Member 1 | Party | Member 2 | Party | Member 3 | Party | Member 4 | Party | Member 5 | Party | |||||
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1856 | Nehemiah Guthridge | John Hood | Henry Miller[6] | John Pascoe Fawkner | John Hodgson | ||||||||||
1858 | Thomas Fellows | ||||||||||||||
1858 | Thomas à Beckett[7] | ||||||||||||||
1859 | George Cole | ||||||||||||||
1860 | William Henry Hull | ||||||||||||||
1860 | |||||||||||||||
1862 | |||||||||||||||
1864 | |||||||||||||||
1866 | James Graham[8] | ||||||||||||||
1868 | John O'Shanassy | ||||||||||||||
1868 | |||||||||||||||
1869 | Henry Walsh | ||||||||||||||
1870 | |||||||||||||||
1871 | Archibald Michie[9] | ||||||||||||||
1872 | |||||||||||||||
1873 | Theodotus Sumner[10] | ||||||||||||||
1874 | Frederick Sargood | ||||||||||||||
1874 | |||||||||||||||
1876 | |||||||||||||||
1878 | William Edward Hearn | ||||||||||||||
1879 | James Lorimer[11] | ||||||||||||||
1880 | James MacBain | ||||||||||||||
1880 |
1856 election results
[edit]Candidate[1] | Votes[1] |
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Hodgson* | 1204
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Fawkner* | 1196
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Miller* | 863
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Hood* | 736
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Guthridge* | 689
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Smith | 688
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a'Beckett | 598
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Fellows | 577
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Wiklie | 516
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Mayne | 439
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Total | 7506
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First five elected.
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "Election for the Central Province". South Australian Register. 3 September 1856. Retrieved 3 June 2013.
- ^ a b c Edward Sweetman (1920). Constitutional Development of Victoria, 1851-6. Whitcombe & Tombs Limited. p. 182. Retrieved 18 November 2012.
- ^ a b "Re-Member (Former Members)". State Government of Victoria. Retrieved 3 June 2013.
- ^ "Victoria Constitution Act 1855" (PDF). p. 444. Retrieved 3 June 2013.
- ^ "Central Province and Electoral Districts of Melbourne, St Kilda, Collingwood, South Melbourne, Richmond and Williamstown" (map). State Library of Victoria. 27 November 1855. Retrieved 3 June 2013.
- ^ Mellor, Suzanne G. "Miller, Henry (1809–1888)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-522-84459-7. ISSN 1833-7538. OCLC 70677943. Retrieved 1 May 2013.
- ^ "Victoria". Freeman's Journal. Sydney. 29 September 1858. p. 2. à Beckett won the September by-election, sworn-in in October
- ^ "The Central Province election". The Argus. Melbourne. 20 September 1866. p. 4. Graham was elected unopposed on 20 Sep 1866, sworn-in Jan 1867
- ^ "Central Province Election". The Argus. Melbourne. 22 June 1871. Michie was elected in June, sworn-in in August
- ^ "Central Province Election". The Argus. Melbourne. 1 April 1873. p. 5. Sumner won the 31 March by-election, sworn-in in May
- ^ "Central Province Election". The Argus. Melbourne. 12 May 1879. p. 8. Lorimer elected unopposed 12 May, sworn-in July