South Western Province (Victoria)

South Western Province was an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Council.[1][2]

South Western Province Victoria—Legislative Council
South-Western Province, 1856
State	Victoria
Created	1856
Abolished	1979

It was one of the six original upper house Provinces of the bi-cameral Victorian Parliament created in November 1856, initially it had five members.[1] Victoria was a colony in Australia when South-Western Province was created.

The area of South Western Province was defined in the Victoria Constitution Act, 1855, as "Including the Counties of Grant, Grenville, and Polwarth."[3] The Act came into effect in 1856.

It was finally abolished in 1979 after the redistribution of 1976 when several new provinces were created, including Geelong Province.[2]

Members for South Western Province

These were members of the upper house province of the Victorian Legislative Council, five members initially.[1] Three members after the redistribution of provinces in 1882,[4][5] South Eastern, South Yarra, North Yarra, North Eastern, North Central, Melbourne East, Melbourne North, Melbourne South, Melbourne West and Wellington Provinces were created. Two members after another redistribution of provinces in 1904 when Melbourne South and Melbourne West Provinces (and others) were created.[2]

Member 1		Party	Year	Member 2		Party	Member 3		Party	Member 4		Party	Member 5		Party
	James Henty		1856		William Roope			James Cowie			Robert Hope			James Strachan
			1858					George Coppin
			1860		John McCrae
			1862
			1863					Caleb Jenner
			1864								John Lowe
			1866											George Rolfe
			1867											Thomas Learmonth
			1867								Robert Hope
			1868
			1869											Philip Russell
			1870		John Cumming
			1870
			1872
			1874								Henry Cuthbert
			1875											George Belcher
			1876
			1878
			1880		Philip Russell
	Francis Ormond		1882
			1882
			1884
			1886		Joseph Connor
			1886					William Robertson
			1886
			1888					Sidney Austin
	Donald Wallace		1889
			1890
			1892
			1894
	Joseph Grey		1895
	Henry Wrixon		1896
			1896
			1898
			1899		Thomas Harwood
			1900
			1902
			1904
			1907
			1910
	Austin Austin		1910
			1912		Horace Richardson
			1913
			1916
		Nationalist	1917			Nationalist
			1919
			1922
	Howard Hitchcock	Nationalist	1925
			1928
	Gordon McArthur	Nationalist	1931
		United Australia	1931			United Australia
			1934		John Percy Jones	United Australia
			1937
			1940		Allan McDonald	Country
			1943
		Liberal	1945
			1946
			1947			Independent
		Liberal and Country	1949			Liberal and Country
			1952		Don Ferguson	Labor
			1955
			1958		Geoffrey Thom	Liberal and Country
			1961
			1964
	Stanley Gleeson	Liberal	1965			Liberal
			1967
			1970		Glyn Jenkins	Liberal
			1973

Election results

1973 Victorian state election: South Western Province

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Stan Gleeson	45,418	45.0	+6.1
	Labor	Stanley Nash	40,179	39.8	-0.4
	Democratic Labor	James Crockett	7,994	7.9	-6.5
	Country	Gilbert Anderson	7,401	7.3	+0.8
Total formal votes			100,992	96.5	-0.4
Informal votes			3,681	3.5	+0.4
Turnout			104,673	94.3	-1.3
Two-party-preferred result
	Liberal	Stan Gleeson	58,678	58.1	+3.3
	Labor	Stanley Nash	42,314	41.9	-3.3
	Liberal hold		Swing	+3.3

References

1. Sweetman, Edward (1920). Constitutional Development of Victoria, 1851-6. Whitcombe & Tombs Limited. p. 182. Retrieved 19 June 2013.
2. "Re-Member (Former Members)". State Government of Victoria. Retrieved 15 May 2013.
3. "Victoria Constitution Act 1855" (PDF). Retrieved 19 June 2013.
4. "The Legislative Council Act 1881". Australasian Legal Information Institute. Retrieved 30 March 2014.
5. Victorian Hansard, Session 1883 (PDF). 42. John Ferres, Melb. 1883.

• "Parliamentary Debates" (PDF). Parliament of Victoria. 1867.