North Eastern Province (Victoria)

North Eastern Province (originally North-Eastern Province) was an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Council. It was created in the redistribution of provinces in 1882 when the original provinces^[1] of Central and Eastern Provinces were abolished. The new North Eastern, North Central, Melbourne East, Melbourne North, Melbourne South and Melbourne West Provinces were then created.^[2]

North Eastern Province Victoria—Legislative Council
State	Victoria
Created	1882
Abolished	2006

North Eastern Province was created and defined by the Legislative Council Act 1881 (taking effect from the 1882 elections) as consisting of the following divisions: Chiltern, Rutherglen, North Ovens, Beechworth, Bright, Oxley, Benalla, Euroa, Yarrawonga, Shepparton, Mansfield, Howqua, Goulburn and Seymour .^[3]

North Eastern Province was abolished at the 2006 state election in the wake of the Bracks Labor government's reform of the Legislative Council.

Members for North Eastern Province

Three members initially, two after the 1904 redistribution of provinces, Melbourne East Province and others were created.^[2]

Member 1		Party	Year	Member 2		Party	Member 3		Party
	Robert Anderson		1882		Patrick Hanna			John Wallace
	Frederick Brown		1883
			1884
			1886
			1888		John Turner
			1888		James Butters
			1890
			1892		Arthur Sachse
			1892
			1894
			1896
			1898
			1900
			1901					William Orr
			1902
	Willis Little		1903
			1904
			1907
			1910
			1913
	William Kendell	Non-Labor	1916
			1916
		Nationalist	1917			Nationalist
			1919
			1920		John Harris	Country
			1922
	Albert Zwar	Country	1922
			1925
			1928
			1931
			1934
	Percival Inchbold	Country	1935
			1937
		Liberal Country	1938
			1940
		Country	1943
			1946		Ivan Swinburne	Country
			1949
			1952
	Keith Bradbury	Country	1953
			1955
			1958
			1961
			1964
			1967
			1970
			1973
			1976		David Evans	National
	Bill Baxter	National	1978
			1979
			1982
	Bill Baxter	National	1985
			1985
			1988
			1992
			1996		Jeanette Powell	National
			1999
			2002		Wendy Lovell	Liberal

Election results

Main article: Electoral results for the North Eastern Province (Victoria)

2002 Victorian state election: North Eastern Province

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Wendy Lovell	41,725	33.3	+32.4
	Labor	Jackie Crothers	40,279	32.2	−3.4
	National	Kerrin Chambers	30,134	24.1	−31.4
	Greens	Carol Kunert	7,243	5.8	+5.8
	Democrats	Leanne Pleash	3,465	2.8	−5.2
	Christian Democrats	Phil Seymour	2,332	1.9	+1.9
Total formal votes			125,178	95.7	−1.2
Informal votes			5,576	4.3	+1.2
Turnout			130,754	93.3
Two-party-preferred result
	Liberal	Wendy Lovell	73,538	58.7	+58.7
	Labor	Jackie Crothers	51,640	41.3	+1.4
	Liberal gain from National		Swing	N/A