Electoral district of East Melbourne

East Melbourne was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria from 1859 to 1927.

It was defined in the 1858 Electoral Act as: Initially the district was created with two members, this was reduced to one member from the Assembly elections of 1904.

Members for East Melbourne Member 1 Term Member 2 Term Alexander Hunter Oct 1859 – Jun 1861Hunter resigned 19 June 1861. Sir James McCulloch Oct 1859 – Jul 1861 Sir Graham Berry Jul 1861 Ambrose Kyte Aug 1861 – Dec 1865 Edward Cohen Aug 1861 – Dec 1865 Edward Langton Feb 1866 – Dec 1867 Nathaniel Levi Feb 1866 – Dec 1867 Frederick Walsh Mar 1868 – Mar 1874 Edward Cohen Mar 1868 – Apr 1877 George Selth Coppin May 1874 – Apr 1877 Ephraim Zox May 1877 – Jun 1879 Alexander Kennedy Smith May 1877 – Jan 1881 Ephraim Zox Jul 1879 – Oct 1899 Frederick Walsh Feb 1881 – Feb 1883 George Selth Coppin Feb 1883 – Mar 1889 Frank Stuart Apr 1889 – Sep 1894 John Anderson Oct 1894 – Jun 1901 Sir Samuel Gillott Nov 1899 – Dec 1906 John Francis Deegan Jul 1901 – Sep 1902 William Watt Oct 1902 – May 1904

Single Member District 1904–1927MemberPartyTerm   Samuel Gillott Unaligned 1904–1906   Henry Weedon Unaligned 1906–1911 Alfred Farthing Liberal 1911–1917  Nationalist 1917–1927

= by-election = resigned

Election results

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