electoral district of Gippsland West

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{{Infobox Australian electorate

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|lifespan = 1889–1976, 1985–2002

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

{{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=13 June 2013

}}

It was created by the Electoral Act Amendment Act 1888{{cite web |url=http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/vic/hist_act/teaaa1888234/ |title=The Electoral Act Amendment Act 1888 |access-date=13 June 2013 |format=PDF }}{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article62242883 |title=The Gippsland Times. |newspaper=Gippsland Times (Vic. : 1861 - 1954) |location=Vic. |date=31 December 1888 |access-date=12 February 2015 |page=3 Edition: Morning |publisher=National Library of Australia}} along with Gippsland Central and

Gippsland East. Gippsland North and Gippsland South were resized at the same time. The electorate was dissolved in 2002.

The principal towns of Gippsland West included Pakenham, Drouin, Warragul and Trafalgar.

Members for Gippsland West

class="wikitable"
colspan="4"\|First incarnation (1889–1976)
colspan="2"\|Member	Party	Term
{{Australian party style\|Other}}\| \| Arthur Groom \| None \| 1889–1892
{{Australian party style\|Other}}\| \| George Turner \| None \| 1892–1900
{{Australian party style\|Other}}\| \| Arthur Nichols \| Ministerialist/Independent \| 1900–1902
{{Australian party style\|Other}}\| \| rowspan="3"\|John Mackey \| Ministerialist \| 1902–1909
{{Australian party style\|Commonwealth Liberal}}\| \| Commonwealth Liberal \| 1909–1917
{{Australian party style\|Nationalist}}\| \| Nationalist \| 1917–1924
{{Australian party style\|Country}}\| \| Arthur Walter \| Country \| 1924–1929
{{Australian party style\|Country}}\| \| Matthew Bennett \| Country \| 1929–1950
{{Australian party style\|Country}}\| \| Leslie Cochrane \| Country \| 1950–1970
{{Australian party style\|Liberal}}\| \| Rob Maclellan \| Liberal \| 1970–1976
colspan="4"\|Second incarnation (1985–2002)
colspan="2"\|Member	Party	Term
{{Australian party style\|Liberal}}\| \| Alan Brown \| Liberal \| 1985–1996
{{Australian party style\|Independent}}\| \| Susan Davies \| Independent \| 1997–2002

class="wikitable"

colspan="4"|First incarnation (1889–1976)

colspan="2"|Member

Party

Term

{{Australian party style|Other}}|

| Arthur Groom

| None

| 1889–1892

{{Australian party style|Other}}|

| George Turner

| None