Western Province was an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Council (Australia), the upper house of the Parliament of Victoria. Victoria was a colony in Australia when Western Province was created. From Federation in 1901, Victoria was a state in the Commonwealth of Australia.
Western Province was one of the six original upper house provinces of the bicameral Victorian Parliament created in November 1856.
Western Province was defined in the Victorian Constitution Act, 1855, as : "Including the Counties of Ripon, Hampden, Heytesbury, Villiers, Normanby, Dundas, and Follett."
In 1882, several new Provinces were created, including Nelson Province and Wellington Province, the numbers of members elected for Western Province was reduced to three from this time. Another redistribution in 1904 reduced the number of members to two.
In 2006, the Western Province (along with all the other provinces in the Legislative Council) was abolished and replaced by regions. All of the area covered by Western Province is contained in the larger Western Victoria Region.
Members for Western Province Five members initially until 1882. Three from 1882 until 1904, then two members from 1904 until abolition in 2006.
Member 1 Party Year Member 2 Party Member 3 Party Member 4 Party Member 5 Party Stephen Henty 1856 Charles Vaughan James Palmer Andrew Cruikshank Daniel Tierney 1858 Henry Miller 1858 1859 Niel Black 1860 1862 1864 Charles Sladen 1864 1866 James Strachan 1866 1868 Robert Simson 1870 Thomas McKellar William Skene 1870 1872 1874 Thomas Bromell 1875 Samuel Wilson Charles Sladen 1876 1878 William Ross 1880 Robert Simson 1880 1881 Thomas Cumming Nathan Thornley 1882 1884 1886 1888 Samuel Cooke 1888 Agar Wynne 1890 1892 1894 1896 1898 1900 1901 Walter Manifold 1902 Robert Ritchie 1903 1903 Alexander MacLeod 1904 Edward White 1907 1910 1913 1916 Nationalist 1917 Nationalist 1919 1922 1924 Marcus Saltau Nationalist 1925 1928 William Williamson Independent 1931 1931 United Australia 1934 Leonard Rodda Country 1937 1940 Robert Rankin Country 1943 Leonard Rodda Country 1943 1945 1946 Hugh MacLeod Independent 1946 Liberal and Country 1949 Liberal and Country 1949 Electoral Reform 1952 1952 David Arnott Labor Ronald Mack Liberal and Country 1955 1958 Kenneth Gross Liberal and Country 1961 1964 Liberal 1965 Liberal 1967 Clive Mitchell Country 1968 1970 Digby Crozier Liberal 1973 1976 Bruce Chamberlain Liberal 1979 1982 Roger Hallam National 1985 1988 1992 1996 1999 David Koch Liberal 2002 John Vogels Liberal
Rodda resigned in July 1943, re-elected in October 1943
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