Geelong Province

For the electorate of the unicameral Victorian Legislative Council of 1851–1856, see Electoral district of Geelong (Victorian Legislative Council).

Geelong Province was an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Council^[1] until 2006, located around Geelong. It was abolished from the 2006 state election in the wake of the Bracks Labor government's reform of the Legislative Council. The area of the former Geelong Province then became part of the larger Western Victoria Region.^[2]

Geelong Province Victoria—Legislative Council
State	Victoria
Created	1976
Abolished	2006
Namesake	City of Geelong
Demographic	Metropolitan

Members for Geelong Province

Member 1		Party	Year
	Glyn Jenkins	Liberal	1976	Member 2		Party
			1979		Rod Mackenzie	Labor
	David Henshaw	Labor	1982
			1985
			1987			Independent
			1988
			1992		Bill Hartigan	Liberal
	Ian Cover	Liberal	1996
			1999		Elaine Carbines	Labor
	John Eren	Labor	2002

Eren went on to represent the Electoral district of Lara in the Victorian Legislative Assembly from 25 November 2006.^[1]

Election results

Main article: Electoral results for the Geelong Province

2002 Victorian state election: Geelong Province

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	John Eren	72,683	51.2	+5.7
	Liberal	Ian Cover	51,059	36.0	−9.2
	Greens	Bruce Murray	11,904	8.4	+4.3
	Democrats	Erica Menheere-Thompson	3,255	2.3	−2.9
	Christian Democrats	Alan Barron	1,826	1.3	+1.3
	Independent	Val Nicholls	1,144	0.8	+0.8
Total formal votes			141,871	97.0	−0.5
Informal votes			4,395	3.0	+0.5
Turnout			146,266	94.3
Two-party-preferred result
	Labor	John Eren	86,253	60.8	+8.8
	Liberal	Ian Cover	55,564	39.2	−8.8
	Labor gain from Liberal		Swing	+8.8