Northern Province (Victoria)

Northern Province Victoria—Legislative Council
State	Victoria
Created	1882
Abolished	1979

Northern Province was a former electorate of the Victorian Legislative Council (Australia),

It was initially created by the Legislative Council Act 1881 (taking effect at the 1882 elections) and defined as having the following divisions: Echuca Shire, Echuca Borough, Marong, Raywood, Huntly, Waranga, Sandhurst (North), Sandhurst Central, Sandhurst South and Eaglehawk.^[1] Northern Province was created out of parts of North Western Province (which was resized) and Eastern Province, which was abolished.

1904

Northern Province was redefined in the Electoral Provinces Boundaries Act 1903 and consisted of the following:

Division	Description
ECHUCA	The borough of Echuca.
GOULBURN	The portion of the shire of Goulburn within the province.
HEATHCOTE	The shire of Mclvor.
HUNTLY	The shire of Huntly.
KERANG	The portions of the shires of Kerang and Gordon situated east of the Loddon River.
MOOROOPNA	The shire of Rodney.
NUMURKAH	The shire of Numurkah and the portion of the shire of Tungamah within the province.
ROCHESTER	The shire of Echuca.
ROCHESTER EAST	The shire of Deakin.
RUSHWORTH	The shire of Waranga.
SERPENTINE	The shire of East Loddon.
SHEPPARTON	The shire of Shepparton and the portions of the shires of Euroa and Violet Town within the province.

^[2]

Northern Province and North Central provinces were split off from North Western in 1882.^[3]

Northern Province was abolished on 4 May 1979.^[4]

Members for Northern Province

Three members were elected to the province initially; four from the expansion of the Council in 1889;^[5] two from the redistribution of 1904 when several new provinces including Bendigo and Melbourne North were created.^[4]

Member 1	Term	Member 2	Term	Member 3	Term
Francis Robertson[6]	Nov 1882 – Mar 1886[4]	William Mitchell[7]	1882 – 24 Nov. 1884[8]	David Chaplin Sterry	Dec 1882 – Mar 1889[4]	Member 4	Term
Walter Simpson	Jun 1886^[b] – Jun 1889[4]	William Irving Winter	Dec 1884^[b] – Jun 1901[4]	Joseph Henry Abbott^[t]	April 1889^[b] – Jun 1904[4]	George Simmie	Sep 1889 – c. May 1904[4]
Frederick Illingworth	Jul 1889 – c. Apr 1891[4]
Joseph Sternberg	Jun 1891 – May 1904[4]	William Baillieu	Aug 1901 –     1922[4][9]
Martin Cussen	Jun 1904 – Mar 1907[4]
Richard Abbott	Jun 1907 – Jun 1913[4]
Frank Clarke	Jun 1913 – Jun 1925[4]
George Tuckett	Jun 1925 – Jun 1955[4]	Richard Abbott	May 1922 – May 1928[4]
Percy Feltham	18 Jun 1955 – 28 Apr 1967[4]	Richard Kilpatrick	Jun 1928[10] – 1946[4]
Stuart McDonald	29 April 1967 – 4 May 1979[4]	Dudley Walters	15 Jun 1946 – 26 Jun 1964[4]
		Michael Clarke	27 Jun 1964 – 19 Mar 1976[4]

Notes

^b = by-election
^t = J. H. Abbott transferred to the new Bendigo Province, August 1904.

References

1. "The Legislative Council Act 1881". Australasian Legal Information Institute. Retrieved 14 June 2013.
2. "Electoral Provinces Boundaries Act 1903". Australasian Legal Information Institute. Retrieved 16 Jun 2013.
3. "Stonewalling Government Bills". Bendigo Advertiser. Trove. 22 July 1882. Retrieved 9 May 2013.
4. "Re-Member (Former Members)". State Government of Victoria. Retrieved 13 August 2012.
5. "The Legislative Council Elections". The Argus. 30 August 1889. Retrieved 16 May 2013.
6. Assigned from original North-western province, Victorian Legislative Council proceedings.
7. Victorian Hansard, Session 1882 (PDF). XXXIX. John Ferres.
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. Poynter, J. R. "Baillieu". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Canberra: Australian National University. Retrieved 13 August 2012.
10. "Legislative Council. Northern Province. Mr. Kilpatrick elected". The Argus. 8 Jun 1928. Retrieved 13 August 2012.

Coordinates: 36°25′S 144°30′E / 36.417°S 144.500°E