South Eastern Province
{{Short description|Former electoral province of the Victorian Legislative Council, Australia}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2019}}
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| created = 1882
| abolished = 2006
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South Eastern Province was an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Council{{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=14 May 2013}} from November 1882. It was created in the redistribution of provinces in 1882 when the original provinces{{cite book |title=Constitutional Development of Victoria, 1851-6 |author=Sweetman, Edward |year=1920 |publisher=Whitcombe & Tombs Limited |page=182 |url=https://archive.org/details/constitutionalde00swee |access-date=14 May 2013}} of Central and Eastern were abolished. The new South Eastern, South Yarra, North Yarra, North Eastern, North Central, Melbourne East, Melbourne North, Melbourne South and Melbourne West Provinces were then created.
The Legislative Council Act, 1881, created and defined the South Eastern Province as consisting of the following Divisions: Alexandra, Yea, Eltham, Lilydale, Bulleen, Boroondara, Nunawading, Malvern, Caulfield, Oakleigh, Moorabbin, Dandenong, Berwick, Cranbourne, Mornington, Flinders, Phillip Island and Brighton.
{{cite web
|url=http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/vic/hist_act/tlca1881231/
|title=The Legislative Council Act 1881
|publisher=Australasian Legal Information Institute
|access-date=30 March 2014
}}
It was abolished at the 2006 state election in the wake of the Bracks Labor government's reform of the Legislative Council.
Members for South Eastern Province
These were members of the upper house province of the Victorian Legislative Council. Three members initially, two after the implementation in 1904 of the Electoral Provinces Boundaries Act 1903.
{{cite web
|url=http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/vic/hist_act/epba1903313/
|title=Electoral Provinces Boundaries Act 1903
|access-date=30 March 2014
|publisher=Australasian Legal Information Institute
}}
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| colspan=2 | Member 1 | Party | Year | colspan=2 | Member 2 | Party | colspan=2 | Member 3 | Party |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| rowspan=7 {{Australian party style|Other}} |
| rowspan=7 | Frank Dobson | rowspan=7 | |1882 | rowspan=9 {{Australian party style|Other}} | | rowspan=9 | James Buchanan | rowspan=9 | | rowspan=13 {{Australian party style|Other}} | | rowspan=13 | James Balfour | rowspan=13 | none | ||||||
| 1884 | ||||||
| 1886 | ||||||
| 1888 | ||||||
| 1890 | ||||||
| 1892 | ||||||
| 1894 | ||||||
| rowspan=8 {{Australian party style|Other}} |
| rowspan=8 | James Campbell | rowspan=8 | | 1895 | ||||||
| 1896 | ||||||
| 1898
| rowspan=2 {{Australian party style|Other}} | | rowspan=2 | William Knox | rowspan=2 | | ||||||
| 1900 | ||||||
| 1901
| rowspan=8 {{Australian party style|Other}} | | rowspan=8 | Duncan McBryde | rowspan=8 | | ||||||
| 1902 | ||||||
| 1904
| rowspan=41 colspan=3 bgcolor=#DFDFDF | | ||||||
| 1907 | ||||||
| rowspan=3 {{Australian party style|Other}} |
| rowspan=5 | William Adamson | rowspan=3 | Liberal |1910 | ||||||
| 1913 | ||||||
| 1916 | ||||||
| rowspan=2 {{Australian party style|Nationalist}} |
| rowspan=2 | Nationalist | 1917 | ||||||
| 1919
| rowspan=5 {{Australian party style|Nationalist}} | | rowspan=7 | Alfred Chandler | rowspan=5 | Nationalist | ||||||
| rowspan=4 {{Australian party style|Nationalist}} |
| rowspan=8 | William Tyner | rowspan=4 | Nationalist |1922 | ||||||
| 1925 | ||||||
| 1928 | ||||||
| 1931 | ||||||
| rowspan=4 {{Australian party style|UAP}} |
| rowspan=4 | United Australia | 1931 | rowspan=2 {{Australian party style|UAP}} | | rowspan=2 | United Australia | ||||||
| 1934 | ||||||
| 1935
| {{Australian party style|UAP}} | | ||||||
| 1937
| rowspan=3 {{Australian party style|UAP}} | | rowspan=9 | Charles Gartside | rowspan=3 | United Australia | ||||||
| rowspan=2 {{Australian party style|UAP}} |
| rowspan=7 | Cyril Isaac | rowspan=2 | United Australia |1940 | ||||||
| 1943 | ||||||
| rowspan=2 {{Australian party style|Liberal}} |
| rowspan=2 | Liberal | 1945 | rowspan=2 {{Australian party style|Liberal}} | | rowspan=2 | Liberal | ||||||
| 1946 | ||||||
| rowspan=3 {{Australian party style|Liberal and Country}} |
| rowspan=3 | Liberal and Country | 1949 | rowspan=2 {{Australian party style|Liberal and Country}} | | rowspan=2 | Liberal and Country | ||||||
| 1949 | ||||||
| 1952
| rowspan=2 {{Australian party style|ERL}} | | rowspan=2 | Electoral Reform | ||||||
| rowspan=2 {{Australian party style|Labor}} |
| rowspan=2 | George Tilley | rowspan=2 | Labor |1952 | ||||||
| 1955
| rowspan=2 {{Australian party style|Liberal and Country}} | | rowspan=2 | Charles Bridgford | rowspan=2 | Liberal and Country | ||||||
| rowspan=3 {{Australian party style|Liberal and Country}} |
| rowspan=3 | Bill Mair | rowspan=3 | Liberal and Country |1958 | ||||||
| 1961
| rowspan=3 {{Australian party style|Liberal and Country}} | | rowspan=12 | Alan Hunt | rowspan=3 | Liberal and Country | ||||||
| 1964 | ||||||
| rowspan=3 {{Australian party style|Labor}} |
| rowspan=3 | Ian Cathie | rowspan=3 | Labor | 1964 | ||||||
| 1965
| rowspan=9 {{Australian party style|Liberal}} | | rowspan=9 | Liberal | ||||||
| 1967 | ||||||
| rowspan=6 {{Australian party style|Liberal}} |
| rowspan=6 | Roy Ward | rowspan=6 | Liberal |1970 | ||||||
| 1973 | ||||||
| 1976 | ||||||
| 1979 | ||||||
| 1982 | ||||||
| 1985 | ||||||
| rowspan=4 {{Australian party style|Liberal}} |
| rowspan=4 | Ken Smith | rowspan=4 | Liberal |1988 | ||||||
| 1992
| rowspan=4 {{Australian party style|Liberal}} | | rowspan=4 | Ron Bowden | rowspan=4 | Liberal | ||||||
| 1996 | ||||||
| 1999 | ||||||
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Election results
{{main|Electoral results for the South Eastern Province (Victoria)}}
{{Election box begin
|title = 1999 Victorian state election: South Eastern Province
}}
{{Election box candidate AU party
|party = Liberal VIC
|candidate = Ron Bowden
|votes = 70,597
|percentage = 52.6
|change = -4.0
}}
{{Election box candidate AU party
|party = Labor VIC
|candidate = Michael Binney
|votes = 51,147
|percentage = 38.1
|change = +2.7
}}
{{Election box candidate AU party
|party = Democrats
|candidate = Richard Armstrong
|votes = 6,551
|percentage = 4.9
|change = 0.0
}}
{{Election box candidate AU party
|party = Greens VIC
|candidate = Stuart Kingsford
|votes = 5,972
|percentage = 4.4
|change = +4.4
}}
{{Election box formal
|votes = 134,267
|percentage = 97.2
|change = -0.6
}}
{{Election box informal
|votes = 3,807
|percentage = 2.8
|change = +0.6
}}
{{Election box turnout
|votes = 138,074
|percentage = 94.1
|change =
}}
{{Election box 2pp}}
{{Election box candidate AU party
|party = Liberal VIC
|candidate = Ron Bowden
|votes = 76,088
|percentage = 56.7
|change = -3.4
}}
{{Election box candidate AU party
|party = Labor VIC
|candidate = Michael Binney
|votes = 58,148
|percentage = 43.3
|change = +3.4
}}
{{Election box hold AU party
|winner = Liberal VIC
|swing = -3.4
}}
{{Election box end}}
References
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{{Electoral provinces of Victoria}}
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Category:Former electoral provinces of Victoria (state)