Templestowe Province

Templestowe Province was an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Council. It existed as a two-member electorate from 1967 to 2006, with members serving alternating eight-year terms. It was traditionally held by the Liberal Party, but was held by the Labor Party on two occasions: from 1982 to 1988 and again from 2002 to 2006. It was abolished from the 2006 state election in the wake of the Bracks Labor government's reform of the Legislative Council.

Templestowe Victoria—Legislative Council
State	Victoria
Created	1967
Abolished	2006
Area	123 km^2 (47.5 sq mi)
Demographic	Metropolitan

It was located in the north-east of Melbourne. In 2002, when it was last contested, it covered an area of 123 km² and included the suburbs of Bulleen, Doncaster, Eltham, Heidelberg, Ivanhoe, Montmorency, Rosanna and Templestowe.

Members for Templestowe Province

Member 1		Party	Year
	Vasey Houghton	Liberal	1967	Member 2		Party
			1970		Raymond Garrett	Liberal
			1973
			1976		Ralph Howard	Liberal
			1979
			1982		Mike Arnold	Labor
	John Miles	Liberal	1985
			1988		Bruce Skeggs	Liberal
	Bill Forwood	Liberal	1992
			1996		Carlo Furletti	Liberal
			1999
			2002		Lidia Argondizzo	Labor

Election results

2002 Victorian state election: Templestowe Province

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Lidia Argondizzo	56,952	43.5	+42.1
	Liberal	Carlo Furletti	54,670	41.7	-11.8
	Greens	Robyn Roberts	17,469	13.3	-21.5
	Independent	Reginald Temple	1,079	0.8	+0.8
	Hope	Lee-Anne Poynton	893	0.7	+0.7
Total formal votes			131,063	96.2	-0.8
Informal votes			5,195	3.8	+0.8
Turnout			136,258	93.7
Two-party-preferred result
	Labor	Lidia Argondizzo	70,611	53.9	+9.6
	Liberal	Carlo Furletti	60,452	46.1	-9.6
	Labor gain from Liberal		Swing	+9.6

References

• Psephos Election Results for Victoria — Adam Carr's Election Archive
• Province of Templestowe — Parliamentary Handbook for the 55th Parliament of Victoria
• Newspaper articles:
  • "Preselection – Another Lib MP Dumped", Sunday Age, 1991-06-02
  • "Judges Seek Justice", The Age, 1994-03-10
  • Obituary for Sir Raymond Garrett, The Age, 1994-10-25
  • "Libs Dump Veteran MP", Paul Robinson, Sunday Age, 1995-12-03
  • "Man Of Vision Gets Honorable Send-off", Meaghan Shaw, The Age, 2001-01-17
• Victorian Electoral Commission (correspondence)