Bendigo Province
Bendigo Province was an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Council
. It was created in the redistribution of provinces in June 1904, North Central Province being abolished. Bendigo Province itself was abolished in 1988.
36°45′S 144°16′E / 36.750°S 144.267°E
Members
These were members of the upper house province of the Victorian Parliament. The bicameral system of government commenced in November 1856.
Year | Member | Party | Member | Party | ||
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1904 | William Gray | Joseph Sternberg | ||||
1904 | Joseph Abbott | |||||
1904 | Alfred Hicks | |||||
1907 | ||||||
1910 | ||||||
1913 | ||||||
1916 | ||||||
1917 | Nationalist | Nationalist | ||||
1919 | ||||||
1921 | Herbert Keck | Nationalist | ||||
1922 | ||||||
1925 | ||||||
1928 | George Lansell | Nationalist | ||||
1931 | ||||||
1931 | United Australia | United Australia | ||||
1934 | ||||||
1937 | John Lienhop | Country | ||||
1940 | ||||||
1943 | ||||||
1944 | Country | |||||
1946 | ||||||
1949 | Liberal and Country | Liberal and Country | ||||
1949 | ||||||
1951 | Herbert Ludbrook | Liberal and Country | ||||
1952 | Arthur Smith | Labor | ||||
1955 | ||||||
1958 | ||||||
1961 | ||||||
1964 | Jock Granter | Liberal and Country | ||||
1965 | Liberal | Liberal | ||||
1967 | Fred Grimwade | Liberal | ||||
1970 | ||||||
1973 | ||||||
1976 | Bruce Reid | Liberal | ||||
1979 | John Radford | Liberal | ||||
1982 | ||||||
1985 |
Election results
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labor | Fabian Reid | 34,312 | 40.0 | +3.9 | |
Liberal | Bruce Reid | 30,871 | 35.9 | +2.8 | |
National | Clarence Rodda | 14,922 | 17.4 | -5.0 | |
Democrats | Marlene Gunn | 5,788 | 6.7 | -1.7 | |
Total formal votes | 85,893 | 97.9 | +0.4 | ||
Informal votes | 1,816 | 2.1 | −0.4 | ||
Turnout | 87,709 | 95.2 | +0.4 | ||
Two-party-preferred result | |||||
Liberal | Bruce Reid | 46,487 | 54.1 | -1.1 | |
Labor | Fabian Reid | 39,406 | 45.9 | +1.1 | |
Liberal hold | Swing | -1.1 |
References
- ^ "Re-Member (Former Members)". State Government of Victoria. Retrieved 10 May 2013.
- ^ Edward Sweetman (1920). Constitutional Development of Victoria, 1851-6. Whitcombe & Tombs Limited. p. 182. Retrieved 19 October 2012.