Melbourne West Province

Melbourne West Province was an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Council from 1904 until 2006.

Melbourne West Victoria—Legislative Council
State	Victoria
Created	1904
Abolished	2006
Namesake	West Melbourne, Victoria

It was created in June 1904 when Melbourne Province was reduced in size (four members down to two), North Yarra Province and South Yarra Province were abolished. The new Melbourne West Province, Melbourne North Province, Melbourne South Province and Melbourne East Province were then created. Its area was defined by the Electoral Provinces Boundaries Act 1903 as:

Commencing at the intersection of Elizabeth-street and Victoria-street; thence westerly by Victoria-street and the boundary of the city of Melbourne to the Saltwater River; thence southerly by that river and the Yarra River to the Coode Canal; thence easterly by that canal and the Yarra River to Clarendon-street; thence south-easterly by Clarendon-street to Dorcas-street; thence south-Westerly by that street to Nelson-road ; thence southerly by Nelson-road to St. Vincent-street west; thence south-westerly by that street to Cowie-street; thence north-westerly by Cowie-street to Pickles-street; thence southerly by that street to the shore of Hobson's Bay ; thence westerly and southerly by the shore of Hobson's Bay and westerly by the shore of Port Phillip Bay to the west boundary of the town of Williamstown (as described in the Local Government Act 1890) ; thence north by the said boundary to Stony Creek ; thence north-westerly by that creek to Reid-street; thence west by that street to the Geelong-road ; thence south-westerly, west, and southerly by that road to the Kororoit Creek ; thence northerly by that creek to the west boundary of section 18, parish of Cut-Paw-Paw ; thence north by the west boundaries of sections 18, 19, and 22 to the Saltwater River ; thence easterly by that river to Maribyrnong-road ; thence easterly by that road and the south boundary of allotment i), section 5, parish of Doutta Galla, to the Moonee Ponds; thence southerly by the Moonee Ponds to Flemington-road ; and thence south-easterly by that road and Elizabeth-street to the commencing point. To include the electors afloat in Hobson's Bay.

Melbourne West Province was abolished at the 2006 state election in the wake of the Bracks Labor government's reform of the Legislative Council.

Members for Melbourne West Province

Member 1		Party	Year	Member 2		Party
	John Aikman	Non-Labor	1904		William Edgar	Non-Labor
			1907
			1910
			1913		William Fielding	Labor
			1916		Arthur Disney	Labor
	Daniel McNamara	Labor	1916
	John Aikman	Non-Labor
		Nationalist	1917
			1919
	Robert Williams	Labor	1922
			1925
			1928
			1931
		Independent	1932
			1934
			1937
	Pat Kennelly	Labor	1938
			1940
			1943
			1943		Les Coleman	Labor
			1946
			1949
	Bert Bailey	Labor	1952
		Labor (A-C)	1955			Labor (A-C)
			1955		Buckley Machin	Labor
	Archie Todd	Labor	1958
			1961
			1963		Alexander Knight	Labor
			1964
			1967
	Bunna Walsh	Labor	1970
	Bon Thomas	Labor	1970
			1973
			1976
			1979		Joan Coxsedge	Labor
	Joan Kirner	Labor	1982
			1985
	Licia Kokocinski	Labor	1988
			1992		Jean McLean	Labor
	Sang Nguyen	Labor	1996
			1999		Kaye Darveniza	Labor
			2002

Election results

Main article: Electoral results for the Melbourne West Province

2002 Victorian state election: Melbourne West Province

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Sang Nguyen	78,617	60.4	-0.7
	Liberal	Peter Hammond	32,350	24.9	-8.2
	Greens	Andrew Ellis	15,007	11.5	+11.5
	Democrats	Barry Thomas	4,123	3.2	-2.6
Total formal votes			130,097	95.4	-0.3
Informal votes			6,314	4.6	+0.3
Turnout			136,411	92.3
Two-party-preferred result
	Labor	Sang Nguyen	91,780	70.6	+5.7
	Liberal	Peter Hammond	38,237	29.4	-5.7
	Labor hold		Swing	+5.7

References

• http://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/re-member/bioregsearch.cfm