Electoral_district_of_West_Bourke

Electoral district of West Bourke

Electoral district of West Bourke

Former electoral district of Victoria, Australia

West Bourke (sometimes Bourke West) was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria from 1856 to 1904. 37°30′S 144°35′E

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The district of West Bourke was one of the initial districts of the first Victorian Legislative Assembly, 1856.[1]

Boundaries

The boundaries of the district included the Great Dividing Range from the source of the Werribee River to the north-eastern branch of the Saltwater River near Big Hill, then from the Saltwater River to the south-western corner of the parish of Bulla Bulla. The eastern boundary included the source of the Moonee Ponds to Flemington Bridge, then south to the Yarra River, Port Phillip Bay and to the mouth of the Werribee River at its source in the Great Dividing Range.[2]

Electoral districts of West Bourke, East Bourke and South Bourke

Members for West Bourke

Two members initially, three from the expansion of 1859.[3] Fewer members after the redistributions of 1877 and 1889.

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References

  1. [1]
    Edward Sweetman (1920). Constitutional Development of Victoria, 1851-6. Whitcombe & Tombs Limited. p. 183. Retrieved 4 April 2013.
  2. [2]
    "An Act to alter the Electoral Districts of Victoria and to increase the number of Members of the Legislative Assembly thereof" (PDF). Austlii. 17 December 1858. Retrieved 12 February 2015.
  3. [3]
    "An Act to alter the Electoral Districts of Victoria and to increase the number of Members of the Legislative Assembly thereof" (PDF). 1858. Retrieved 8 June 2013.
  4. [4]
    "The Bacchus Marsh Express". TROVE. 29 August 1903. Retrieved 12 February 2015.
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