Electoral district of South Bourke

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South Bourke
VictoriaLegislative Assembly
Electoral district of South Bourke, Victoria.png
Location in Victoria
State Victoria
Created 1856
Abolished 1889
Namesake Bourke South
Demographic Rural

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The Electoral district of South Bourke (sometimes Bourke South) was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in then Australian colony of Victoria.[1] It was one of the original 36 electoral districts of the Assembly.[2] It covered an area east of Melbourne, bounded by Dandenong Creek in the south and east, Moorabbin, Prahran and Hawthorn in the west and Templestowe in the north.[3] It was abolished in 1889.[1]

Electoral districts of West Bourke, East Bourke and South Bourke

Members for South Bourke

Two members originally, one after the redistribution of 1877.[4]

Member 1 Term Member 2 Term
Patrick O'Brien Nov. 1856 – Aug. 1859 Charles Pasley Nov. 1856 – July 1857[r]
Sidney Ricardo July 1857[b] – Aug. 1859
Louis Smith Oct. 1859 – Dec. 1865 Hibbert Newton Oct. 1859 – July 1861
George Paton Smith Feb. 1866 – Jan. 1871 Michael O'Grady Aug. 1861 – May? 1868
James Fergusson Apr. 1871 – Mar. 1874 John Crews May 1868[b] – Apr. 1877
George Paton Smith May 1874 – Apr. 1877
James Fergusson May 1877 – Feb. 1880
John Keys May 1880 – Mar. 1889

[1]

r = resigned
b = by election

Keys went on to represent the new Electoral district of Dandenong and Berwick from April 1889.[5]


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