Nelson Province (Australia)

Nelson Province was an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Council (Australia). It was created in the wide-scale redistribution of Provinces 1882 when Central and Eastern Provinces were abolished and ten new Provinces were created.[1] Its area included Camperdown, Ararat and Mortlake.[2]

Nelson Province
Victoria—Legislative Council
StateVictoria
Created1882
Abolished1940

Nelson was created and defined by the Legislative Council Act 1881 (taking effect from the 1882 elections) as consisting of the following divisions: Hampden, Mortlake, Ararat Shire, Ararat Borough, Ripon, Grenville, Ballaarat, Lexton, Avoca, Stawell Shire and Stawell Borough.[3]

Nelson was later refined in 1904 as consisting of: Ararat, Beaufort, Carisbrook (boroughs of Carisbrook and Majorca), Clunes, Creswick, Dunolly (boroughs of Dunolly and Tarnagulla and the shire of Bet Bet), Glenorchy (shire of Stawell), Landsborough (shire of Avoca), Lexton, Maryborough, Moyston (shire of Ararat), St. Arnaud, Stawell, Stuart Mill (shire of Kara Kara), Talbot and Timor (shire of Tullaroop and the portion of the shire of Maldon within the province).[4]

Nelson Province was finally abolished in 1940 in the wake of another redistribution of Provinces in 1937 when four new Provinces were created. Nelson, Wellington and Melbourne East Provinces were all abolished in the years 1937 to 1940.[1]

Members for Nelson Province

Three members initially, two after the redistribution of 1904.[1] The first three members, Thomas Bromell, Charles Sladen and James Williamson were all "Assigned from original Western Province", Williamson was elected in place of the retiring Robert Simson.[5]

Member 1 Party Year Member 2 Party Member 3 Party
  Thomas Bromell   1882   James Williamson     Charles Sladen  
1883   Holford Wettenhall[6]  
1884
1886   Thomas Dowling  
  James Macpherson   1887
1888   William Osmand  
1890
  Samuel Williamson   1891
1892
1894
1896
1898
1900
1901   Steuart G. Black  
  Hans Irvine   1901
1902
1904   James D. Brown    
  Edwin Austin   1906
1907
  Thomas C. Miners   1909
  Theodore Beggs Non-Labor 1910
1913
1916
  Nationalist 1917   Nationalist
1919
1922   Edwin Bath Nationalist
1925
  Alan Currie Nationalist 1928
1931
  United Australia 1931   United Australia
1934
 

References
  1. "Re-Member (Former Members)". State Government of Victoria. Retrieved 29 May 2014.
  2. "Nelson Province". The Argus. 1 December 1882. Retrieved 13 May 2013.
  3. "The Legislative Council Act 1881". Australasian Legal Information Institute. Retrieved 14 June 2013.
  4. "Electoral Provinces Boundaries Act 1903". Australasian Legal Information Institute. Retrieved 16 June 2013.
  5. Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Council During the Session 1883.
  6. "Intercolonial News". Sydney Morning Herald. Trove. 28 December 1882. Retrieved 14 May 2013.

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