Electoral district of Anglesey

{{Short description|Former state electoral district of Victoria, Australia}}

{{Distinguish|Anglesey (UK Parliament constituency)}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2019}}

{{Infobox Australian Electorate

|name = Anglesey

|state = vic

|image = Electoral_district_of_Anglesey.png

|caption = Location in Victoria, 1856

|lifespan = 1856–1859, 1889–1904

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|class = Rural

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The electoral district of Anglesey was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria.

The district of Anglesey was one of the initial districts of the first Victorian Legislative Assembly, 1856.{{cite book

|title=Constitutional Development of Victoria, 1851-6

|author=Sweetman, Edward

|year=1920

|publisher=Whitcombe & Tombs Limited

|page=[https://archive.org/details/constitutionalde00swee/page/183 183]

|url=https://archive.org/details/constitutionalde00swee

|access-date=30 April 2013

}} Its area was defined in the Victoria Constitution Act 1855 (18 & 19 Vict. c. 55) as containing the County of Anglesey and part of the County of Dalhousie, excepting the area included in the electoral districts of Kyneton Boroughs and Kilmore and the Borough of Seymour.

{{cite web

|url=http://foundingdocs.gov.au/resources/transcripts/vic5_doc_1855.pdf

|title=Victoria Constitution Act 1855

|access-date=12 June 2013

|page=459

}}

In between Anglesey's abolition in 1864 and re-creation in 1889, the Electoral district of Kilmore and Anglesey existed from 1877 to 1889, Thomas Hunt was member for its entire existence.

{{cite web |url=http://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/re-member/bioregsearch.cfm

|title=Re-Member (Former Members)

|publisher=State Government of Victoria

|access-date=30 April 2013}}