Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, 1889–1892

This is a list of members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, from the elections of 28 March 1889 to the elections of 20 April 1892. There were 95 seats in the Assembly from 1889, up from 86 in the previous Parliament.

The following districts were created or had new names in 1889: Albert Park, Anglesey, Benalla and Yarrawonga, Bogong, Borung, Carlton South, Clunes and Allandale, Dandenong and Berwick, Daylesford, Donald and Swan Hill, Dunolly, Eaglehawk, Eastern Suburbs, Essendon and Flemington, Gippsland Central, Gippsland East, Gippsland West, Gunbower, Hawthorn, Horsham, Jolimont and West Richmond, Kilmore, Dalhousie and Lancefield, Korong, Kyneton (renamed from Kyneton Boroughs), Lowan, Maryborough, Melbourne, Melbourne South, Numurkah and Nathalia, Polwarth, Port Fairy (renamed from Belfast), Port Melbourne (renamed from Sandridge), Prahran, Sandhurst South, Shepparton and Euroa, South Yarra, Talbot and Avoca, Toorak, Wangaratta and Rutherglen, Warrenheip, Windermere.

These districts were abolished before the 1889 elections: Avoca, Boroondara, Dalhousie, Kilmore and Anglesey, Maryborough and Talbot, Moira, Polwarth and South Grenville, South Bourke, Wimmera.

Victoria was a British self-governing colony in Australia at the time.

Note the "Term in Office" refers to that member's term(s) in the Assembly, not necessarily for that electorate. 14th Parliament Name Electorate Term in Office Villiers & Heytesbury 1880–1892 Geelong 1880; 1886–1894 Grant 1889–1894 Sandhurst 1886–1894; 1897–1907 Lowan 1883–1894 Collingwood 1889–1912 Richmond 1889–1908 Brighton 1871–1894; 1900–1909 Fitzroy 1889–1901 Benalla and Yarrawonga 1889–1892 Sandhurst 1866–1877; 1880–1893 Windermere 1889–1893 Korong 1889–1892 Evelyn 1874–1914 Melbourne 1877–1883; 1885–1900 Williamstown 1889–1894 Dunolly 1889–1890 Footscray 1879–1894 Benambra 1889–1913 Grenville 1877–1894 Toorak 1883–1892 Essendon & Flemington 1879–1879; 1880–1900 Port Melbourne 1883–1892 Prahran 1874–1880; 1889–1894 Kara Kara 1877–1893 Kilmore, Dalhousie & Lancefield 1874–1886; 1887–1904 Borung 1889–1892 Ovens 1886–1894 Polwarth 1886–1894; 1897–1911 Gippsland East 1889–1902 Carlton 1880–1891 Eastern Suburbs 1861–1868; 1870–1894; 1897–1903 Castlemaine 1886–1894 Numurkah and Nathalia 1884–1914 Delatite 1877–1900; 1902–1904 Gippsland West 1886–1892 Shepparton and Euroa 1880–1891 Gippsland Central 1883–1910 South Yarra 1880–1894; 1897–1904 Mandurang 1885–1893 Anglesey 1874–1892; 1903–1908 Dandenong and Berwick 1880–1894; 1897–1900 Ballarat West 1889–1894; 1894–1904; 1907–1908 Collingwood 1874–1891 North Melbourne 1877–1892 Carlton South 1889–1892 Barwon 1871–1877; 1880–1906 Gunbower 1886–1901 Maldon 1877–1880; 1881–1902 Gippsland North 1880–1901 Ararat 1859–1877; 1883–1897 Horsham 1880–1894 Melbourne West 1889–1903 Gippsland South 1871–1877; 1878–1886; 1889–1902 East Bourke Boroughs 1889–1894; 1897–1902; 1903–1904 Melbourne South 1889–1892 Geelong 1874–1880; 1881–1883; 1886–1892 Warrenheip 1886–1900 Warrnambool 1884–1916 Albert Park 1877–1892 Dundas 1880–1892 Port Fairy 1878–1880; 1880–1883;1888–1894; 1897–1900 Maryborough 1885–1902; 1904–1920 Wangaratta and Rutherglen 1889–1892 Castlemaine 1870–1895 Clunes & Allandale 1889–1933 East Bourke Boroughs 1878–1892 Creswick 1874–1886; 1889–1894 Ballarat East 1880; 1883–1889 Rodney 1883–1892 Normanby 1880–1904 Jolimont & West Richmond 1883–1892 Mornington 1859–1865; 1871–1874; 1877–1880;1880–1883; 1886–1894 Emerald Hill 1889–1904 Ballarat West 1861–1864; 1871–1892; 1894–1894 Bourke West 1880; 1883–1901 Sandhurst South 1889–1904 Talbot and Avoca 1871–1877; 1889 Melbourne East 1889–1894 Donald & Swan Hill 1889–1904 Hawthorn 1889–1894 Richmond 1889–1903 Fitzroy 1874–1900 St Kilda 1889–1901 Bogong 1886–1892 Ripon & Hampden 1883–1892 Rodney 1889–1897; 1903–1904 Daylesford 1864–1867; 1880–1900 Bourke East 1889–1891 Eaglehawk 1877–1883; 1889–1902 Stawell 1859–1864; 1871–1892 Portland 1868–1877; 1880–1894 Grenville 1880–1894 Kyneton 1874–1892 Melbourne East 1877–1899 Matthew Davies was Speaker, William McLellan was Chairman of Committees.

Cheetham died 28 June 1890; replaced by William Tatchell sworn-in July 1890. Langridge died 24 March 1891, replaced by John Hancock, sworn-in June 1891. Russell died 17 October 1889; replaced by John Dunn, sworn-in November 1889. Stewart died 11 November 1889; replaced by Robert Bowman, sworn-in May 1890. Wilkinson died 6 August 1891; replaced by Robert Harper, sworn-in September 1891.

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