Eastern Province (Victoria)
| Eastern Province Victoria—Legislative Council | |
|---|---|
 Eastern Province, 1856 | |
| State | Victoria |
| Created | 1856 |
| Abolished | 1882 |
Eastern Province was an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Council,[1][2] Victoria being a colony in the continent of Australia at the time. 37°0′S 147°0′E / 37.000°S 147.000°E
It was one of the six original Provinces of the bi-cameral Legislative Council created in November 1856.[1]
Its area was defined in the Victoria Constitution Act 1855 (18 & 19 Vict. c. 55) as:
"Including the County of Anglesey, the proposed County of Rodney, and the Pastoral Districts of the Murray and Gipps’ Land."[3]
Eastern Province was abolished by the Legislative Council Act of 1881[4] (taking effect at the November 1882 elections).
Eastern Province was replaced by the new provinces of North Eastern and Gippsland of three members each.[2]
Members for Eastern Province
These were members of the upper house province of the Victorian Legislative Council.[1]
| Year | Member 1 | Party | Member 2 | Party | Member 3 | Party | Member 4 | Party | Member 5 | Party | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1856 | Benjamin Williams | William Kaye | Robert Thomson | James Stewart | Matthew Hervey | ||||||||||
| 1857 | William Highett | ||||||||||||||
| 1858 | |||||||||||||||
| 1860 | |||||||||||||||
| 1862 | |||||||||||||||
| 1863 | James Pinnock [5] | ||||||||||||||
| 1863 | Robert Turnbull [6] | ||||||||||||||
| 1864 | Henry Murphy | ||||||||||||||
| 1865 | William Haines | ||||||||||||||
| 1866 | Robert S. H. Anderson | ||||||||||||||
| 1866 | |||||||||||||||
| 1868 | |||||||||||||||
| 1870 | |||||||||||||||
| 1872 | |||||||||||||||
| 1872 | Francis Murphy | ||||||||||||||
| 1873 | John Wallace | ||||||||||||||
| 1874 | |||||||||||||||
| 1875 | William Wilson [7] | ||||||||||||||
| 1876 | |||||||||||||||
| 1876 | Robert Dyce Reid | ||||||||||||||
| 1878 | |||||||||||||||
| 1880 | John Dougharty | ||||||||||||||
| 1880 | William McCulloch | ||||||||||||||
| 1881 | William Pearson, Sr. | ||||||||||||||
After Eastern Province was abolished in 1882, Anderson and Wallace went on to represent North Eastern from 1882; Dougharty, McCulloch and Pearson went on to represent Gippsland.[2]
References
- ^ a b c Edward Sweetman (1920). Constitutional Development of Victoria, 1851-6. Whitcombe & Tombs Limited. p. 182. Retrieved 18 November 2012.
- ^ a b c "Find a Member". State Government of Victoria. Retrieved 17 July 2025.
- ^ "Victoria Constitution Act 1855" (PDF). Retrieved 4 May 2013.
- ^ "The Legislative Council Act 1881". Australasian Legal Information Institute. Retrieved 21 January 2014.
- ^ "Eastern Province Election". The Argus. Melbourne. 21 September 1863. p. 5.
- ^ "Election Notices". The Argus. Melbourne. 29 December 1863. p. 8.
- ^ "Political". The Argus. Melbourne. 27 January 1875. p. 1S.