Electoral district of Castlemaine Boroughs

{{Short description|Former electoral district of Victoria}}

{{For|the electorate of the old unicameral Victorian Legislative Council (1851-56)|Electoral district of Castlemaine (Victorian Legislative Council)}}

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{{Infobox Australian electorate |

|name = Castlemaine Boroughs

|state = vic

|image = Electoral_district_of_Castlemaine_Boroughs,_Victoria.png

|caption = Location in Victoria

|created = 1856

|abolished = 1859

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|mp-party =

|namesake = Castlemaine, Victoria

|area =

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|coordinates = {{coord|37|4|S|144|13|E|display=inline,title}}

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Castlemaine Boroughs was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria from 1856 to 1859. It included the towns Castlemaine, Muckleford, Harcourt and Elphinstone,{{cite book |title=Electoral district of Castlemaine Boroughs

|publisher=WorldCat

|oclc = 222281143}}

{{cite web

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

|title=Victoria Constitution Act 1855

|access-date=12 April 2013

}}

all roughly 110 to 130 km north-west of Melbourne. The boundaries included non-continuous urban areas.

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

|title=Constitutional Development of Victoria, 1851-6

|author=Edward Sweetman

|year=1920

|publisher=Whitcombe & Tombs Limited

|page=183

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

|access-date=21 August 2013

}} Castlemaine Boroughs was abolished in 1859, the new district of Castlemaine was created that year when the Victorian Electoral Act of 1858 was implemented.{{cite web |url=http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/vic/hist_act/aatatedovatitnomotlat1066.pdf |title=An Act to alter the Electoral Districts of Victoria and to increase the number of Members of the Legislative Assembly thereof. |year=1858 |access-date=21 August 2013}}