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Electoral district of Maryborough (Victoria)

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State
  
Victoria

Demographic
  
Rural

Namesake
  
Maryborough

Dates current
  
1859–1877, 1889–1927

Founded
  
1889

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The Electoral district of Maryborough was an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Assembly based on an area around Maryborough, Victoria. It was created in the expansion of the Assembly by the Victorian Electoral Act, 1858, which took effect at the election in 1859.

The district was defined as:

also known as Tullaroop Creek.         also known as Bet Bet Creek.

Maryborough was abolished by the Electoral Act Amendment Act 1876 (taking effect in 1877) and replaced by Electoral district of Maryborough and Talbot.

Maryborough was recreated in 1889 after 'Maryborough and Talbot' was split by the Seat Distribution Bill of 1888. In 1927 the district of Maryborough was again abolished, replaced by the Electoral district of Maryborough and Daylesford.

Members

Davies won both Maryborough and Villiers and Heytesbury at the August 1861 general elections, he resigned from Maryborough.

References

Electoral district of Maryborough (Victoria) Wikipedia