Higinbotham Province

This article is about the federal electorate. For the state electoral province, see Division of Higinbotham.

Higinbotham Province was an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Council.^[1] It existed as a two-member electorate from 1937 to 2006, with members serving alternating eight-year terms. It was considered a safe seat for the Liberal throughout its history, though it was won by Labor candidate Noel Pullen in Labor's landslide victory at the 2002 state election. It was abolished from the 2006 state election in the wake of the Bracks Labor government's reform of the Legislative Council.

Higinbotham Victoria—Legislative Council
State	Victoria
Created	1937
Abolished	2006
Area	108 km2 (41.7 sq mi)
Demographic	Metropolitan

It was located in the south-east of Melbourne. In 2002, when it was last contested, it covered an area of 108 km² and included the suburbs of Bentleigh, Black Rock, Brighton, Cheltenham, Mentone, Moorabbin, Mordialloc and Sandringham.

Members for Higinbotham Province

Member 1		Party	Year
	James Kennedy	United Australia	1937	Member 2		Party
			1940		James Disney	United Australia
			1943
		Liberal	1945			Liberal
			1946		Arthur Warner	Liberal
		Liberal and Country	1949			Liberal and Country
			1949
			1952
	Lindsay Thompson	Liberal and Country	1954
			1955
			1958
			1961
			1964		Baron Snider	Liberal and Country
		Liberal	1965			Liberal
			1967		Murray Hamilton	Liberal
	William Fry	Liberal	1967
			1970
			1973
			1976
	Robert Lawson	Liberal	1979
			1982		Geoffrey Connard	Liberal
			1985
			1988
	Chris Strong	Liberal	1992
			1996		John Ross	Liberal
			1999
			2002		Noel Pullen	Labor

Election results

Main article: Electoral results for the Higinbotham Province

2002 Victorian state election: Higinbotham Province

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Michael Heffernan	60,580	45.7	−10.1
	Labor	Noel Pullen	52,445	39.6	+36.9
	Greens	Tony McDermott	16,451	12.4	+12.4
	Democrats	Derek Wilson	2,952	2.2	−39.1
Total formal votes			132,428	97.2	+0.3
Informal votes			3,845	2.8	−0.3
Turnout			136,273	92.7
Two-party-preferred result
	Labor	Noel Pullen	66,711	50.4	+6.5
	Liberal	Michael Heffernan	65,717	49.6	−6.5
	Labor gain from Liberal		Swing	+6.5