Central Province (Victoria)
Creation
Central was one of the six original upper house Provinces of the bi-cameral Victorian Parliament created in November 1856. The area of the province, centered on Melbourne was defined in the Victoria Constitution Act 1855. Central Province included the Electoral Districts of Melbourne, St Kilda, Collingwood, South Melbourne, Richmond and Williamstown as well as parts of other adjoining districts.
Abolition
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.
Members
These were members of the upper house province of the Victorian Legislative Council.
| Year | Member 1 | Party | Member 2 | Party | Member 3 | Party | Member 4 | Party | Member 5 | Party | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1856 | Nehemiah Guthridge | John Hood | Henry Miller | John Pascoe Fawkner | John Hodgson | ||||||||||
| 1858 | Thomas Fellows | ||||||||||||||
| 1858 | Thomas à Beckett | ||||||||||||||
| 1859 | George Cole | ||||||||||||||
| 1860 | William Henry Hull | ||||||||||||||
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| 1862 | |||||||||||||||
| 1864 | |||||||||||||||
| 1866 | James Graham | ||||||||||||||
| 1868 | John O'Shanassy | ||||||||||||||
| 1868 | |||||||||||||||
| 1869 | Henry Walsh | ||||||||||||||
| 1870 | |||||||||||||||
| 1871 | Archibald Michie | ||||||||||||||
| 1872 | |||||||||||||||
| 1873 | Theodotus Sumner | ||||||||||||||
| 1874 | Frederick Sargood | ||||||||||||||
| 1874 | |||||||||||||||
| 1876 | |||||||||||||||
| 1878 | William Edward Hearn | ||||||||||||||
| 1879 | James Lorimer | ||||||||||||||
| 1880 | James MacBain | ||||||||||||||
| 1880 | |||||||||||||||
1856 election results
| Candidate | Votes |
|---|---|
| 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
- ^ "Election for the Central Province". South Australian Register. 3 September 1856. Retrieved 3 June 2013.
- ^ Edward Sweetman (1920). Constitutional Development of Victoria, 1851-6. Whitcombe & Tombs Limited. p. 182. Retrieved 18 November 2012.
- ^ "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