Electoral district of East Bourke

Not to be confused with Electoral district of East Bourke Boroughs also a seat of the Assembly, 1859 to 1904.

East Bourke Victoria—Legislative Assembly
Location in Victoria
State	Victoria
Created	1856
Abolished	1904
Namesake	Bourke East
Demographic	Rural

East Bourke (also known as Bourke East from around 1891) was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria from 1856 to 1904. Coordinates: 37°38′S 144°55′E / 37.633°S 144.917°E

The district of East Bourke was one of the initial districts of the first Victorian Legislative Assembly, 1856.^[1]

Electoral districts of West Bourke, East Bourke and South Bourke

Members for East Bourke

Two members initially, one from the redistribution of 1877.

Member 1	Term	Member 2	Term
Augustus Greeves	Nov. 1856 – March 1857	Robert Bennett	Nov. 1856 – June 1857
Richard Heales	March 1857^[b] – Aug. 1859	Augustus Greeves	July 1857^[b] – Aug. 1859
James Macintosh	Oct. 1859 – July 1861	Robert Bennett	Oct. 1859 – Aug. 1864
George Kirk	Aug. 1861 – Aug. 1864
John Sherwin	Oct. 1864 – Dec. 1865	Joshua Cowell	Oct. 1864 – Dec. 1865
Matthew McCaw	Feb. 1866 – Sep. 1870^[r]	James Balfour	Feb. 1866 – Aug. 1868^[r]
Robert Ramsay	Oct. 1870^[b] – May 1882	William Lobb	Sep. 1868^[b] – Mar. 1874
		Frederick Race Godfrey	May 1874 – Apr. 1877
Robert Harper	June 1882 – Mar. 1889
William Wilkinson	Apr. 1889 – Aug. 1891
Robert Harper	Sep. 1891^[b] – Sep. 1897
Mackay John Scobie Gair	Oct. 1897 – May 1904

Notes

^r = resigned
^b = by-election

References

1. Edward Sweetman (1920). Constitutional Development of Victoria, 1851-6. Whitcombe & Tombs Limited. p. 183. Retrieved 22 May 2013.

• "Re-Member (Former Members)". State Government of Victoria. Retrieved 18 August 2014.