Electoral district of East Melbourne

East Melbourne Victoria—Legislative Assembly
Location within Greater Melbourne area, 1859
State	Victoria
Created	1859
Abolished	1927
Demographic	Metropolitan

East Melbourne was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria from 1859 to 1927.

It was defined in the 1858 Electoral Act as:

Commencing at that point on the north bank of the River Yarra Yarra intersected by a line passing through the centre of Elizabeth-street; thence north-westerly by a line passing through the centre of Elizabeth-street to Victoria-street; thence east by a line passing through the centre of Victoria-street and Victoria-parade to Gisborne-street; thence southward by the eastern side of Gisborne-street and a line bearing south to the River Yarra Yarra; and thence westerly by the north bank of the River Yarra Yarra to the commencing point.

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Initially the district was created with two members, this was reduced to one member from the Assembly elections of 1904.

Members for East Melbourne

Member 1	Term	Member 2	Term
Alexander Hunter	Oct 1859 – Jun 1861[2]	Sir James McCulloch	Oct 1859 – Jul 1861
Sir Graham Berry	Jul 1861^[b]
Ambrose Kyte	Aug 1861 – Dec 1865	Edward Cohen	Aug 1861 – Dec 1865
Edward Langton	Feb 1866 – Dec 1867	Nathaniel Levi	Feb 1866 – Dec 1867
Frederick Walsh	Mar 1868 – Mar 1874	Edward Cohen	Mar 1868 – Apr 1877
George Selth Coppin	May 1874 – Apr 1877
Ephraim Zox	May 1877 – Jun 1879 ^[r]	Alexander Kennedy Smith	May 1877 – Jan 1881
Ephraim Zox	Jul 1879^[b] – Oct 1899^[d]	Frederick Walsh	Feb 1881^[b] – Feb 1883
		George Selth Coppin	Feb 1883 – Mar 1889
		Frank Stuart	Apr 1889 – Sep 1894
		John Anderson	Oct 1894 – Jun 1901
Sir Samuel Gillott	Nov 1899 – Dec 1906^[r]	John Francis Deegan	Jul 1901^[b] – Sep 1902
		William Watt	Oct 1902 – May 1904

Single Member District 1904–1927
Member		Party	Term
	Samuel Gillott	Unaligned	1904–1906
	Henry Weedon	Unaligned	1906–1911
	Alfred Farthing	Liberal	1911–1917
		Nationalist	1917–1927

^[b] = by-election

^[r] = resigned

Election results

Main article: Electoral results for the district of East Melbourne

References

1. "An Act to alter the Electoral Districts of Victoria and to increase the number of Members of the Legislative Assembly thereof" (PDF). Australasian Legal Information Institute. 1858. Retrieved 23 September 2013.
2. Hunter resigned 19 June 1861. "Parliamentary Intelligence". The Star. Ballarat, Vic. 20 June 1861. p. 2.

• "Re-Member (Former Members)". State Government of Victoria. Retrieved 11 April 2013.

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