Electoral district of South Bourke

Colonial electoral district of Victoria, Australia For the district of the unicameral Victorian Legislative Council 1851–1856, see Electoral district of South Bourke, Evelyn and Mornington.

Australian electorate

South Bourke Victoria—Legislative Assembly
Location in Victoria
State	Victoria
Created	1856
Abolished	1889
Namesake	Bourke South
Demographic	Rural

The Electoral district of South Bourke (sometimes Bourke South) was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in then Australian colony of Victoria. It was one of the original 36 electoral districts of the Assembly. 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. It was abolished in 1889.

Members for South Bourke

Two members originally, one after the redistribution of 1877.

Member 1	Term	Member 2	Term
Patrick O'Brien	Nov. 1856 – Aug. 1859	Charles Pasley	Nov. 1856 – July 1857
Patrick O'Brien	Nov. 1856 – Aug. 1859	Sidney Ricardo	July 1857 – 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 – Apr. 1877
George Paton Smith	May 1874 – Apr. 1877	John Crews	May 1868 – Apr. 1877
James Fergusson	May 1877 – Feb. 1880
John Keys	May 1880 – Mar. 1889

= resigned
= by election

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

References

^ "Former Members". re-member: a database of all Victorian MPs since 1851. Parliament of Victoria. Retrieved 25 August 2022.
Edward Sweetman (1920). Constitutional Development of Victoria, 1851-6. Whitcombe & Tombs Limited. p. 182. Retrieved 18 May 2013.
"Electoral Districts of West Bourke East Bourke and South Bourke" (map). State Library of Victoria. Retrieved 18 May 2013.
"The Elections in Victoria". The Sydney Morning Herald. Trove. 12 May 1877. Retrieved 24 April 2013.
"John Keys". Re-Member: a database of all Victorian MPs since 1851. Parliament of Victoria. Archived from the original on 23 April 2023. Retrieved 18 May 2013.

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