North Western Province (Victoria)

North Western Province (or North-Western Province) was an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Council (Australia), created in 1856 and was abolished in 2006.[1]

North Western Province
Victoria—Legislative Council
North Western Province, 1856
StateVictoria
Created1856
Abolished2006
DemographicRural

Victoria was a British colony in Australia when North-Western Province was created, it became a state of Australia on Federation on 1 January 1901.

North Western was one of the six original upper house Provinces of the bi-cameral Victorian Parliament created in November 1856, each Province initially having five members.[2]

Located in the far north-west of Victoria, "North-Western Province" was defined in the Victoria Constitution Act 1855, as "Including the Counties of Talbot and Dalhousie, and the Pastoral District of the Wimmera and of the Loddon, except the proposed County of Rodney."[3]

Members for North Western Province

Five members were elected initially,[2] three after the redistribution of 1882 when Northern and North Central provinces were split off.[4] Four from the enlargement of the Council in 1889,[5] two from 1904.[1]

Member 1 Party Year Member 2 Party Member 3 Party Member 4 Party Member 5 Party
  Dennis Keogh   1856   John Allan     William Mitchell     John Patterson     George Urquhart  
1858   Alexander Fraser  
1858   David Wilkie  
1859   William Mitchell  
1860   George Rolfe  
  Francis Robertson   1860
1860
1862   William Campbell  
  Nicholas Fitzgerald   1864
1866
1868   Francis Robertson  
1870
1872
1874
1876
1878
1880
1881   William Stanbridge  
1882   William Zeal  
  1882   George Young     James Bell     David Coutts    
1884
1886
1888
  Joseph Pratt   1889
1890
1891   Duncan McBryde  
1892
1894
1895
1896   Pharez Phillips  
1897   Thomas Comrie  
1898
1900
1901   Henry Williams  
1901
1902
1903   Richard Rees  
1904  
  Frederick Hagelthorn   1907
1910
1913
1916
  George Goudie Country 1919
1919   William Crockett VFU
1922
1925
1926   Country Progressive
1928   William McCann Country Progressive
1930   Country
1931
1932   Henry Pye Country
1934
1937
1940
1942   Percy Byrnes Country
1943
1946
  Colin McNally Country 1949
1952
  Arthur Mansell Country 1952
1955
1958
1961
1964
1967
1969   Bernie Dunn National
1970
  Ken Wright National 1973
1976
1979
1982
1985
1988   Ron Best National
  Barry Bishop National 1992
1996
1999
2002   Damian Drum National

Election results
Main article: Electoral results for the North Western Province (Victoria)
2002 Victorian state election: North Western Province
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Marg Lewis 47,302 36.1 -4.6
National Damian Drum 30,494 23.2 -27.2
Liberal Peter Kennedy 29,776 22.7 +21.0
Independent Laurie Whelan 16,308 12.4 +12.4
Greens Julie Rivendell 7,328 5.6 +5.6
Total formal votes 131,208 96.7 -1.0
Informal votes 4,472 3.3 +1.0
Turnout 135,680 93.8
Two-party-preferred result
National Damian Drum 66,200 50.5 -5.3
Labor Marg Lewis 65,008 49.5 +5.3
National hold Swing-5.3

References
  1. "Re-Member (Former Members)". State Government of Victoria. Retrieved 10 October 2012.
  2. Edward Sweetman (1920). Constitutional Development of Victoria, 1851-6. Whitcombe & Tombs Limited. p. 182. Retrieved 8 May 2013.
  3. "Victoria Constitution Act 1855" (PDF). p. 24. Retrieved 4 June 2013.
  4. "Stonewalling Governmrnt Bills". Bendigo Advertiser. Trove. 22 July 1882. Retrieved 8 May 2013.
  5. "Business Directory". The Mildura Cultivator. 26 April 1902. Retrieved 8 May 2013. (Four members in place)
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