Electoral district of Kilmore

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For the district of the old unicameral Victorian Legislative Council 1851–1856, see Electoral district of Kilmore, Kyneton and Seymour.

Kilmore
Victoria—Legislative Assembly
Electoral district of Kilmore, Victoria.png
Location in Victoria
StateVictoria
Created1856
Abolished1877
DemographicRural
Coordinates37°17′31″S 144°57′4″E / 37.29194°S 144.95111°E / -37.29194; 144.95111Coordinates: 37°17′31″S 144°57′4″E / 37.29194°S 144.95111°E / -37.29194; 144.95111

Kilmore was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria centred on Kilmore from 1856 to 1877.[1] It was superseded in 1877 by Kilmore and Anglesey.[1]

The district of Kilmore was one of the initial districts of the first Victorian Legislative Assembly, 1856.[2]

It was defined as:

Commencing at a Point on the Eastern Branch of the Korkarruc Creek, Two Miles 55 Chains South of its Junction with the main Stream, and bounded on the North by a Line East from the said Point to Dry Creek; on the East by the Western Branch of the Dry Creek to its Source, thence by a Line South to the Boundary of the County of Bourke; on the South by the said Boundary to the Source of the Eastern Branch of the aforesaid Korkarruc Creek, and on the West by that Eastern Branch to the commencing Point.[3]

Members for Kilmore[]

Member Term
Sir John O'Shanassy Nov. 1856 – Dec. 1865
Richard Davies Ireland Feb. 1866 – Dec. 1867
Mar. 1868 – Mar. 1874
Thomas Hunt May 1874 – Apr. 1877

References[]

  1. ^ a b "Re-Member (Former Members)". State Government of Victoria. Retrieved 10 April 2013.
  2. ^ Edward Sweetman (1920). Constitutional Development of Victoria, 1851-6. Whitcombe & Tombs Limited. p. 183. Retrieved 10 April 2013.
  3. ^ "Victoria Constitution Act 1855" (PDF). Retrieved 28 May 2013.

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