Southern Province (Victoria)

Southern Province (also known as South Province)[1] was an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Council.[2][3]

Southern Province Victoria—Legislative Council
South Province, 1856
State	Victoria
Created	1856
Abolished	1970

Victoria was a colony in Australia when South Province was created in 1856.

South Province was one of the six original upper house Provinces of the bi-cameral Victorian Parliament created in November 1856.[1][2] South Province was finally abolished in 1970 after Boronia Province and Templestowe Province were created in 1967.[3]

Members for Southern Province

These were members of the upper house province of the Victorian Legislative Council. Five members initially,[2][3] three from the redistribution of provinces in 1882 when South Eastern, South Yarra, North Yarra, North Eastern, North Central, Melbourne East, Melbourne North, Melbourne South, Melbourne West and Wellington Provinces were created,[3] two from 1904 when more provinces were created.[4][5]

Donald Kennedy had been a nominated member of the unicameral Victorian Legislative Council from September 1854 to March 1856.[3]

In 1882 new provinces were created, James Balfour went on to represent South Western Province from 1882 to 1904. James Buchanan went on to represent South Eastern Province from 1882 to 1898.

Raymond Garrett represented Templestowe Province from 1970 to 1976 after Southern Province was abolished.[3]

Member 1		Party	Year	Member 2		Party	Member 3		Party	Member 4		Party	Member 5		Party
	John Bennett		1856		William J. T. Clarke			Thomas Power			Thomas McCombie			Donald Kennedy
			1858
			1859								Gideon Rutherford
			1860								William Degraves
			1861		Joseph Sutherland
			1862		William J. T. Clarke
	John Bear		1863
			1864											William Taylor
			1864					William Pettett
			1866											John Sherwin
			1868											William à Beckett
			1868
			1870		Frank Dobson
			1870
			1871					Thomas Hamilton
			1872
			1874								James Balfour
			1874
			1876											James Buchanan
	William Clarke		1878
			1880
			1882		Donald Melville
			1884					Thomas Henty
			1886
			1887					Charles James
			1888
			1890					Thomas Brunton
			1892
			1894
			1896
	Rupert Clarke		1897
			1898
			1900
			1902
	William Embling		1904		Nicholas Fitzgerald
			1907
			1908		George Dickie
			1910
			1910		Russell Clarke
	William Angliss		1912
			1913
			1916
		Nationalist	1917			Nationalist
			1919
			1922
			1925
			1928
			1931
		United Australia	1931			United Australia
			1934
			1937		Gilbert Chandler
			1940
			1943
		Liberal	1945			Liberal
			1946
		Liberal and Country	1949			Liberal and Country
			1949
	Roy Rawson	Labor	1952
			1955
	Raymond Garrett	Liberal and Country	1958
			1961
			1964

Election results

1964 Victorian state election: Southern Province

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal and Country	Raymond Garrett	106,429	43.8	-1.8
	Labor	Geraldus Den Dulk	100,331	41.3	+2.4
	Democratic Labor	Raymond Studham	36,258	14.9	-0.6
Total formal votes			243,018	97.0	+0.1
Informal votes			7,416	3.0	-0.1
Turnout			250,434	94.9	+0.3
Two-party-preferred result
	Liberal and Country	Raymond Garrett	139,352	57.3	-2.0
	Labor	Geraldus Den Dulk	103,666	42.7	+2.0
	Liberal and Country hold		Swing	-2.0

References

1. "Victoria Constitution Act 1855" (PDF). Retrieved 5 May 2013.
2. Edward Sweetman (1920). Constitutional Development of Victoria, 1851-6. Whitcombe & Tombs Limited. p. 182. Retrieved 18 November 2012.
3. "Re-Member (Former Members)". State Government of Victoria. Retrieved 19 October 2012.
4. "Electoral Provinces Boundaries Act 1903". Australasian Legal Information Institute. Retrieved 25 February 2014.
5. "State Elections in Victoria". Australian Town and Country Journal. 8 June 1904.