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Eastern Province
Victoria—Legislative Council
Eastern Province; Victoria—Legislative Council
	Eastern Province, 1856
State	Victoria
Created	1856
Abolished	1882

Eastern Province was an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Council,^[1]^[2] Victoria being a colony in the continent of Australia at the time. 37°0′S 147°0′E / 37.000°S 147.000°E / -37.000; 147.000

It was one of the six original Provinces of the bi-cameral Legislative Council created in November 1856.^[1]

Its area was defined in the Victoria Constitution Act of 1855 as

"Including the County of Anglesey, the proposed County of Rodney, and the Pastoral Districts of the Murray and Gipps’ Land."^[3]

Eastern Province was abolished by the Legislative Council Act of 1881^[4] (taking effect at the November 1882 elections).

Eastern Province was replaced by the new provinces of North Eastern and Gippsland of three members each.^[2]

Members for Eastern Province

These were members of the upper house province of the Victorian Legislative Council.^[1]

Year
1856	Benjamin Williams	William Kaye	Robert Thomson	James Stewart	Matthew Hervey
1857		William Highett
1858
1860
1862
1863				James Pinnock ^[5]
1863			Robert Turnbull ^[6]	James Pinnock ^[5]
1864				Henry Murphy
1865					William Haines
1866					Robert S. H. Anderson
1866
1868
1870
1872
1872			Francis Murphy
1873				John Wallace
1874
1875	William Wilson ^[7]
1876
1876			Robert Dyce Reid
1878
1880	John Dougharty
1880		William McCulloch
1881		William McCulloch	William Pearson, Sr.

After Eastern Province was abolished in 1882, Anderson and Wallace went on to represent North Eastern from 1882; Dougharty, McCulloch and Pearson went on to represent Gippsland.^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Edward Sweetman (1920). Constitutional Development of Victoria, 1851-6. Whitcombe & Tombs Limited. p. 182. Retrieved 18 November 2012.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Re-Member (Former Members)". State Government of Victoria. Retrieved 4 May 2013.
^ "Victoria Constitution Act 1855" (PDF). Retrieved 4 May 2013.
^ "The Legislative Council Act 1881". Australasian Legal Information Institute. Retrieved 21 January 2014.
^ "Eastern Province Election". The Argus. Melbourne. 21 September 1863. p. 5.
^ "Election Notices". The Argus. Melbourne. 29 December 1863. p. 8.
^ "Political". The Argus. Melbourne. 27 January 1875. p. 1S.