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Electoral district of Gippsland

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State
  
Victoria

Abolished
  
1859

Demographic
  
Rural

Date dissolved
  
1859

Created
  
1856

Namesake
  
Gipps' Land

Founded
  
1856

Electoral district of Gippsland

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Gippsland (or Gipps' Land) was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria from 1856 to 1859. From 1859, two new districts were created: South Gippsland and North Gippsland.

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The district of Gippsland was one of the initial districts of the first Victorian Legislative Assembly, 1856.

Its area was defined as: "Bounded on the South and East by the Sea ; on the North by a Line bearing West from Cape Howe to the Source of the nearest Tributary of the Murray, and by the Alps; and on the West by the Alps and the Counties of Evelyn and Mornington, excepting the Country comprised in the Electoral District of Alberton".

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Members for Gippsland

= by-election = resigned

References

Electoral district of Gippsland Wikipedia