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Electoral district of South Bourke, Evelyn and Mornington

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State
  
Victoria

Abolished
  
1856

Founded
  
1851

Created
  
1851

Demographic
  
Rural / Urban

Date dissolved
  
1856

Electoral district of South Bourke, Evelyn and Mornington

Namesake
  
Counties of Bourke, Evelyn & Mornington

For the lower house seats in the Victorian Legislative Assembly, see South Bourke 1856–1889, or Evelyn and Mornington 1856–1859.

The Electoral district of South Bourke, Evelyn and Mornington was one of the sixteen electoral districts of the original unicameral Victorian Legislative Council of 1851 to 1856.

From 1856 onwards, the Victorian parliament consisted of two houses, the Victorian Legislative Council (upper house, consisting of Provinces) and the Victorian Legislative Assembly (lower house).

Members of South Bourke, Evelyn and Mornington

One member originally, two from the expanded Council of 1853.

Miller went on to represent Central Province in the Legislative Council from November 1856.
Dane later represented the Electoral district of Warrnambool in the Victorian Legislative Assembly from November 1864.
Chapman later represented the Electoral district of St Kilda in the Victorian Legislative Assembly from January 1858 and Electoral district of Mornington from August 1861.

References

Electoral district of South Bourke, Evelyn and Mornington Wikipedia