North Western Province (Victoria)

North Western Province (or North-Western Province) was an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Council (Australia), created in 1856 and was abolished in 2006.[1]

North Western Province
Victoria—Legislative Council
North Western Province, 1856
StateVictoria
Created1856
Abolished2006
DemographicRural

Victoria was a British colony in Australia when North-Western Province was created, it became a state of Australia on Federation on 1 January 1901.

North Western was one of the six original upper house Provinces of the bi-cameral Victorian Parliament created in November 1856, each Province initially having five members.[2]

Located in the far north-west of Victoria, "North-Western Province" was defined in the Victoria Constitution Act 1855, as "Including the Counties of Talbot and Dalhousie, and the Pastoral District of the Wimmera and of the Loddon, except the proposed County of Rodney."[3]

Members for North Western Province

Five members were elected initially,[2] three after the redistribution of 1882 when Northern and North Central provinces were split off.[4] Four from the enlargement of the Council in 1889,[5] two from 1904.[1]

Member 1 Member 2 Member 3 Member 4 Member 5 Term
Dennis Keogh John Allan William Mitchell John Patterson George Urquhart Nov 1856 – Aug 1858
Alexander Fraser [6] Sep 1858 – Oct 1858
David Wilkie Nov 1858 – Apr 1859
vacant
 May 1859 – Jul 1859
William Mitchell [7][8][9] Aug 1859 – Apr 1860
George Rolfe [b] [10] Apr 1860
vacant
 May 1860
Francis Robertson Jun 1860 – Oct 1862
William Campbell [11] Nov 1862 – Oct 1864
Nicholas Fitzgerald Nov 1864 – Nov 1868
Francis Robertson [12] Nov 1868 – Nov 1881
William Stanbridge [b] Dec 1881 – Apr 1882
William Zeal [b] [13][14] May 1882 – Nov 1882
George Young James Bell David Coutts[15][16]     Dec 1882 – Sep 1889
Joseph Pratt Oct 1889 – Nov 1891
Duncan McBryde Dec 1891 – Sep 1896
Pharez Phillips Sep 1896 – May 1897
Thomas Comrie Jun 1897 – May 1901
Henry Williams Jun 1901 – Nov 1903
Richard Rees[b] Dec 1903 – May 1904
    Jun 1904 – May 1907
Frederick Hagelthorn [17]   Jun 1907 – May 1919
George Goudie May 1919 – Oct 1919
William Crockett[b] Nov 1919 – May 1928
William McCann Jun 1928 – Oct 1931
Henry Pye [b] Mar 1932 – Apr 1942
Percy Byrnes [b] May 1942 – Apr 1949
Colin McNally Jun 1949 – May 1952
Arthur Mansell [b] Jul 1952 – Sep 1969
Bernie Dunn[b] Nov 1969 – May 1973
Ken Wright May 1973 – Sep 1988
Ron Best Oct 1988 – Nov 1992
Barry Bishop Oct 1992 – Nov 2006
Damian Drum Nov 2002 – Nov 2006
[b] = elected in a by-election

Drum became member for Northern Victoria Region from 25 November 2006.[1]

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References
  1. "Re-Member (Former Members)". State Government of Victoria. Retrieved 10 October 2012.
  2. Edward Sweetman (1920). Constitutional Development of Victoria, 1851-6. Whitcombe & Tombs Limited. p. 182. Retrieved 8 May 2013.
  3. "Victoria Constitution Act 1855" (PDF). p. 24. Retrieved 4 June 2013.
  4. "Stonewalling Governmrnt Bills". Bendigo Advertiser. Trove. 22 July 1882. Retrieved 8 May 2013.
  5. "Business Directory". The Mildura Cultivator. 26 April 1902. Retrieved 8 May 2013. (Four members in place)
  6. "The North-Western Province Election". The Argus. Melbourne. 23 September 1858.
  7. "Mr. Mitchell". Gippsland Guardian. 26 August 1859. p. 2.
  8. "Intercolonial news". The Sydney Morning Herald. 2 December 1884. Retrieved 8 May 2013. Mitchell was member for Northern at time of his death.
  9. Victorian Hansard, Session 1882 (PDF). XXXIX. John Ferres. (Mitchell represented Northern Province from 1882)
  10. "North-Western Province Election". Bendigo Advertiser. 30 April 1860. p. 3.
  11. "Election for the North-Western Province". Bendigo Advertiser. 11 November 1862. p. 3.
  12. "Victoria". Illustrated Sydney News. 28 November 1868. p. 6.
  13. Victorian Hansard, Session 1882 (PDF). XXXIX. John Ferres. p. 202. (Campbell resigned; Zeal replaced him, sworn in 9 May 1882)
  14. Browne, Geoff. "Zeal". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Melbourne University Press. ISSN 1833-7538. Retrieved 2 January 2013 – via National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. (Zeal transferred to North Central Province)
  15. "North-Western Province Election". Kerang Times and Swan Hill Gazette. Trove. 8 December 1882. Retrieved 2 January 2013.
  16. "Legislative Council Elections". South Bourke and Mornington Journal. Trove. 15 September 1886. Retrieved 4 January 2013.
  17. "North-Western Province Elections". The Horsham Times. Trove. 11 June 1907. Retrieved 4 January 2013.
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