Electoral district of North Grant

North Grant was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria from 1856 to 1859.[1] It was bordered on the north by the Werribee River and included the town of Buninyong.[2] The district of North Grant was one of the initial districts of the first Victorian Legislative Assembly, 1856.[3] North Grant was incorporated into the electoral district of Grenville in 1859.[4]

North Grant
Victoria—Legislative Assembly
Location in Victoria
StateVictoria
Created1856
Abolished1859
DemographicRural
Coordinates37°40′S 143°53′E

Members for North Grant
Member Term
John Humffray Nov 1856 – Aug 1859

References
  1. "Re-Member (Former Members)". State Government of Victoria. Retrieved 12 April 2013.
  2. "Electoral Districts of South Grant, North Grant, North Grenville, Ripon, Hampden, South Grenville and Polworth, Villiers and Heytesbury, Normanby, Dundas and Follett" (map). 1856. Retrieved 12 April 2013.
  3. Edward Sweetman (1920). Constitutional Development of Victoria, 1851-6. Whitcombe & Tombs Limited. p. 183. Retrieved 4 April 2013.
  4. "An Act to alter the Electoral Districts of Victoria and to increase the number of Members of the Legislative Assembly thereof" (PDF). Australasian Legal Information Institute. 1858. Retrieved 27 May 2014.
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