Central Province Victoria— Legislative Council | |
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![]() Central Province, 1855 map | |
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
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]
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]
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 |
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.