Electoral district of Polwarth, Ripon, Hampden and South Grenville

{{Short description|Former electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly}}

{{for|the district of the old unicameral Victorian Legislative Council 1851–1856|Electoral district of Ripon, Hampden, Grenville and Polwarth}}

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{{Infobox Australian electorate

|name = Polwarth, Ripon, Hampden and South Grenville

|state = vic

|image = Electoral_district_of_Polwarth,_Ripon,_Hampden_and_South_Grenville,_Victoria.png

|caption = Location in Victoria

|created = 1856

|abolished = 1859

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|class = Rural

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Polwarth, Ripon, Hampden and South Grenville was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly

{{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=12 April 2013

}}

in the Australian state of Victoria from 1856 to 1859. It was based in western Victoria.

{{cite web

|url=http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/119989

|title=Electoral Districts of South Grant, North Grant, North Grenville, Ripon, Hampden, South Grenville and Polworth, Villiers and Heytesbury, Normanby, Dundas and Follett

|year=1856

|type=map

|access-date=29 April 2013

}}

{{Coord|38|0|S|143|20|E|display=title|dim:150km}}

The district of Polwarth, Ripon, Hampden and South Grenville 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=[https://archive.org/details/constitutionalde00swee/page/183 183]

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

|access-date=29 April 2013

}}

In 1859 "Polwarth, Ripon, Hampden and South Grenville" was abolished and new districts of "Grenville" (two members), "Ripon and Hampden" (one member) and "Polwarth and South Grenville" (one member) were created due to the increase of numbers in the Victorian Legislative Assembly.

{{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

|publisher=Australasian Legal Information Institute

|access-date=29 April 2013

}}