East Yarra Province

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East Yarra Province
VictoriaLegislative Council
StateVictoria
Created1904
Abolished2006
DemographicMetropolitan

East Yarra Province was an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Council until 2006. It was abolished from the 2006 state election in the wake of the Bracks Labor government's reform of the Legislative Council.

Members for East Yarra Province[edit]

Member 1 Party Year Member 2 Party
  James Balfour Unaligned 1904   Edward Miller Unaligned
1907
1910
1913   Robert Beckett Non-Labor
  James Merritt Non-Labor 1913
1916
  Nationalist 1917   William Edgar Nationalist
1919
1922
1925
  George Swinburne Nationalist 1928
  Robert Menzies Nationalist 1928
  Clifden Eager Nationalist 1930
1931
  United Australia 1931   United Australia
1934
1937
1940
1943
  Liberal 1945   Liberal
1946
1948   Ewen Cameron Liberal
  Liberal and Country 1949   Liberal and Country
1949
  Independent 1952
1955
  Dick Hamer Liberal and Country 1958
1961
1964   Bill Campbell Liberal and Country
1964
  Liberal 1965   Liberal
1967
1970
  Haddon Storey Liberal 1971
1973
1976
1979
1982
1983   Mark Birrell Liberal
1985
1988
1992
  David Davis Liberal 1996
1999
2002   Richard Dalla-Riva Liberal

Election results[edit]

2002 Victorian state election: East Yarra Province
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal David Davis 60,379 45.6 -10.8
Labor Tom Wilson 47,741 36.1 +2.9
Greens Peter Campbell 20,311 15.3 +15.3
Democrats Kent Winzer 2,097 1.6 -8.8
Independent Bill French 1,003 0.8 +0.8
Hope Ronald Haack 792 0.6 +0.6
Total formal votes 132,323 96.4 -1.0
Informal votes 4,940 3.6 +1.0
Turnout 137,263 92.9
Two-party-preferred result
Liberal David Davis 66,304 50.1 -9.9
Labor Tom Wilson 66,019 49.9 +9.9
Liberal hold Swing -9.9

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