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North Western Province (Victoria)

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State
  
Victoria

Abolished
  
2006

Founded
  
1856

Created
  
1856

Demographic
  
Rural

Date dissolved
  
2006

North Western Province (Victoria)

North Western Province (or North-Western Province) was a former electorate of the Victorian Legislative Council (Australia), created in 1856 and was abolished in 2006.

Victoria was a British colony in Australia when North-Western Province was created, it became a state of Australia on Federation on 1 January 1901.

North Western was one of the six original upper house Provinces of the bi-cameral Victorian Parliament created in November 1856, each Province initially having five members.

Located in the far north-west of Victoria, "North-Western Province" was defined in the Victoria Constitution Act 1855, as "Including the Counties of Talbot and Dalhousie, and the Pastoral District of the Wimmera and of the Loddon, except the proposed County of Rodney."

Members for North Western Province

Five members were elected initially, three after the redistribution of 1882 when Northern and North Central provinces were split off. Four from the enlargement of the Council in 1889, two from 1904.

= elected in a by-election

Drum became member for Northern Victoria Region from 25 November 2006.

References

North Western Province (Victoria) Wikipedia