South Western Province was an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Council.
It was one of the six original upper house Provinces of the bi-cameral Victorian Parliament created in November 1856, initially it had five members. Victoria was a colony in Australia when South-Western Province was created.
The area of South Western Province was defined in the Victoria Constitution Act, 1855, as "Including the Counties of Grant, Grenville, and Polwarth." The Act came into effect in 1856.
It was finally abolished in 1979 after the redistribution of 1976 when several new provinces were created, including Geelong Province.
Members for South Western Province These were members of the upper house province of the Victorian Legislative Council, five members initially. Three members after the redistribution of provinces in 1882, South Eastern, South Yarra, North Yarra, North Eastern, North Central, Melbourne East, Melbourne North, Melbourne South, Melbourne West and Wellington Provinces were created. Two members after another redistribution of provinces in 1904 when Melbourne South and Melbourne West Provinces (and others) were created.
Member 1 Party Year Member 2 Party Member 3 Party Member 4 Party Member 5 Party James Henty 1856 William Roope James Cowie Robert Hope James Strachan 1858 George Coppin 1860 John McCrae 1862 1863 Caleb Jenner 1864 John Lowe 1866 George Rolfe 1867 Thomas Learmonth 1867 Robert Hope 1868 1869 Philip Russell 1870 John Cumming 187018721874 Henry Cuthbert 1875 George Belcher 187618781880 Philip Russell Francis Ormond 18821882 1884 1886 Joseph Connor 1886 William Robertson 18861888 Sidney Austin Donald Wallace 1889189018921894 Joseph Grey 1895 Henry Wrixon 189618961898 1899 Thomas Harwood 190019021904 19071910 Austin Austin 1910 1912 Horace Richardson 19131916 Nationalist 1917 Nationalist19191922 Howard Hitchcock Nationalist19251928 Gordon McArthur Nationalist1931 United Australia 1931 United Australia1934 John Percy Jones United Australia19371940 Allan McDonald Country1943 Liberal 19451946 1947 Independent Liberal and Country1949 Liberal and Country1952 Don Ferguson Labor19551958 Geoffrey Thom Liberal and Country19611964 Stanley Gleeson Liberal 1965 Liberal19671970 Glyn Jenkins Liberal1973
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