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Victorian Legislative Assembly

The Legislative Assembly presently consists of 88 members, each elected in single-member electoral districts, more commonly known as electorates or seats, using preferential voting, which is the same voting system used for the federal lower house, the Australian House of Representatives.


Alfred Downward

He was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly for Mornington in 1894, serving until 1929; he was Minister for Water Supply and Agriculture (1908–09), Minister for Mines, Forests and Public Health (1917–18), and Minister for Immigration (1924–27).

Andrea McCall

In 1996, McCall was elected as the Liberal member for Frankston in the Victorian Legislative Assembly.

Arthur Nichols

In 1900 he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly as the member for Gippsland West, serving until his defeat in 1902.

Ben Hardman

He was an Australian Labor Party member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly from 1999 to 2010, representing the electorate of Seymour.

Benalla state by-election, 2000

A by-election was held for the Victorian Legislative Assembly seat of Benalla on 13 May 2000.

Broadmeadows state by-election, 2011

A by-election for the Victorian Legislative Assembly district of Broadmeadows was conducted on 19 February 2011, and was retained by the Australian Labor Party.

Carolyn Hirsh

Hirsh worked as a psychologist for the Victorian Department of Education from 1980 to 1985, when she was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly as the member for Wantirna.

David Perrin

He was secretary of the Victorian Dairy Industry Authority from 1983 to 1985, when he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly as the member for Bulleen.

Division of Higgins

The division was created in 1949 and is named after Justice H. B. Higgins (1851–1929), who was a Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly (1894), president of the Carlton Football Club (1904), a founding Member of Australian House of Representatives (1901-1906) and Justice of the High Court of Australia (1906–1929).

Don Nardella

He has been an Australian Labor Party member of the Victorian Parliament since 1992, sitting first in the Legislative Council for Melbourne North Province and then in the Legislative Assembly for Melton.

Edward Findley

Findley was elected as an Australian Labor Party member for the Victorian Legislative Assembly seat of Melbourne in 1900 but was expelled from parliament soon after on 25 June 1901 for seditious libel as editor of the Toscin for republishing a Dublin Irish People article on King Edward VII.

Elaine Carbines

Local media reported in October 2005 that two factionally connected Melbourne unionists were being tipped for the first two easily winnable positions on the party's ticket, with Carbines likely to be faced with the choice of taking the third potentially winnable "death seat" or contesting Legislative Assembly preselection against lower-profile, but better-connected colleagues Ian Trezise or Michael Crutchfield.

Electoral district of Narre Warren North

The Electoral district of Narre Warren North is an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Assembly and includes the suburbs of Narre Warren, Harkaway, Narre Warren North, Endeavour Hills, Berwick, Hallam and Lysterfield South.

Hurtle Lupton

In 1992, Lupton was selected as the Liberal candidate for the Victorian Legislative Assembly seat of Knox, which he duly won.

Judith Graley

In 2006, Graley was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly as the Labor member for Narre Warren South, having defeated sitting member Dale Wilson for preselection.

Justin Madden

This initially saw him pre-selected for the Legislative Assembly seat of Bundoora, vacated by former minister Sherryl Garbutt.

Maxine Morand

Prior to joining BCNA, Morand was Minister for Children and Early Childhood Development and Minister for Women's Affairs in the Brumby Ministry, and held the Victorian Legislative Assembly seat of Mount Waverley.

Melbourne state by-election, 2012

A by-election was held for the Victorian Legislative Assembly seat of Melbourne on Saturday 21 July 2012.

Neil Angus

Angus was elected as a Member of Parliament in the Victorian Legislative Assembly for the Forest Hill

Niddrie state by-election, 2012

A by-election for the Victorian Legislative Assembly district of Niddrie was held on 24 March 2012.

Richard Vale

In 1886 he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly as the member for Ballarat West, serving until 1889 and again from 1892 to 1902.

Rob Maclellan

He was a Liberal member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, representing the seats of Gippsland West (1970–76), Berwick (1976–92) and Pakenham (1992–2002).

In 1970, Maclellan was elected as the Liberal member for Gippsland West in the Victorian Legislative Assembly.

Tom Tunnecliffe

He was a member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, representing the districts of West Melbourne (1903–1904), Eaglehawk (1907–1920) and Collingwood (1921–1947) for the Australian Labor Party.

Walter Madden

Madden was returned to the Victorian Legislative Assembly for the Wimmera in January 1880, holding that seat until March 1889.

William Bayles

In 1864 he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly for Villiers and Heytesbury, and was Commissioner of Trade and Customs in the short-lived Sladen Ministry from May to July 1868.


see also

George Stephen

George Milner Stephen (1812–1894), Australian politician, member of the South Australian Legislative Council and later, the Victorian Legislative Assembly

Gisborne

Electoral district of Gisborne, an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly

Matthew Davies

Matthew Henry Davies (1850–1912), Australian politician, Speaker in the Victorian Legislative Assembly