South Eastern Province

South Eastern Province Victoria—Legislative Council
State	Victoria
Created	1882
Abolished	2006

South Eastern Province was an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Council^[1] from November 1882. It was created in the redistribution of provinces in 1882 when the original provinces^[2] of Central and Eastern were abolished. The new South Eastern, South Yarra, North Yarra, North Eastern, North Central, Melbourne East, Melbourne North, Melbourne South and Melbourne West Provinces were then created.^[1]

The Legislative Council Act, 1881, created and defined the South Eastern Province as consisting of the following Divisions: Alexandra, Yea, Eltham, Lilydale, Bulleen, Boroondara, Nunawading, Malvern, Caulfield, Oakleigh, Moorabbin, Dandenong, Berwick, Cranbourne, Mornington, Flinders, Phillip Island and Brighton.^[3]

It was abolished at the 2006 state election in the wake of the Bracks Labor government's reform of the Legislative Council.

Members for South Eastern Province

These were members of the upper house province of the Victorian Legislative Council. Three members initially,^[3] two after the implementation in 1904 of the Electoral Provinces Boundaries Act 1903.^[4]

Member 1		Party	Year	Member 2		Party	Member 3		Party
	Frank Dobson		1882		James Buchanan			James Balfour	none
			1884
			1886
			1888
			1890
			1892
			1894
	James Campbell		1895
			1896
			1898		William Knox
			1900
			1901		Duncan McBryde
			1902
			1904
			1907
	William Adamson	Liberal	1910
			1913
			1916
		Nationalist	1917
			1919		Alfred Chandler	Nationalist
	William Tyner	Nationalist	1922
			1925
			1928
			1931
		United Australia	1931			United Australia
			1934
			1935		Gilbert Chandler	United Australia
			1937		Charles Gartside	United Australia
	Cyril Isaac	United Australia	1940
			1943
		Liberal	1945			Liberal
			1946
		Liberal and Country	1949			Liberal and Country
			1949
			1952			Electoral Reform
	George Tilley	Labor	1952
			1955		Charles Bridgford	Liberal and Country
	Bill Mair	Liberal and Country	1958
			1961		Alan Hunt	Liberal and Country
			1964
	Ian Cathie	Labor	1964
			1965			Liberal
			1967
	Roy Ward	Liberal	1970
			1973
			1976
			1979
			1982
			1985
	Ken Smith	Liberal	1988
			1992		Ron Bowden	Liberal
			1996
			1999

Election results

Main article: Electoral results for the South Eastern Province (Victoria)

1999 Victorian state election: South Eastern Province

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Ron Bowden	70,597	52.6	−4.0
	Labor	Michael Binney	51,147	38.1	+2.7
	Democrats	Richard Armstrong	6,551	4.9	0.0
	Greens	Stuart Kingsford	5,972	4.4	+4.4
Total formal votes			134,267	97.2	−0.6
Informal votes			3,807	2.8	+0.6
Turnout			138,074	94.1
Two-party-preferred result
	Liberal	Ron Bowden	76,088	56.7	−3.4
	Labor	Michael Binney	58,148	43.3	+3.4
	Liberal hold		Swing	−3.4

References

1. "Re-Member (Former Members)". State Government of Victoria. Retrieved 14 May 2013.
2. Sweetman, Edward (1920). Constitutional Development of Victoria, 1851-6. Whitcombe & Tombs Limited. p. 182. Retrieved 14 May 2013.
3. "The Legislative Council Act 1881". Australasian Legal Information Institute. Retrieved 30 March 2014.
4. "Electoral Provinces Boundaries Act 1903". Australasian Legal Information Institute. Retrieved 30 March 2014.

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