Electoral district of Toorak

Former state electoral district of Victoria, Australia

Australian electorate

Toorak Victoria—Legislative Assembly
State	Victoria
Created	1889
Abolished	1967
Demographic	Metropolitan

The electoral district of Toorak was an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Assembly in the British colony and later Australian state of Victoria.

Electoral boundary

A 1956 map of electoral boundaries shows the Toorak district encompassing the inner Melbourne suburbs of Toorak and South Yarra. The district was bordered by the Yarra River to the north, Kooyong Road to the east, Commercial Road and Malvern Road to the south and St Kilda Road to the east.

Members for Toorak

	Party	Term
(Sir) Matthew Davies		1889–1892
Alexander McKinley		1892–1894
Robert Dyce Reid		1894–1897
Duncan Gillies	Conservative–Liberal Coalition	1897–1903
George Fairbairn	Non-Labor	1903–1906
Norman Bayles	Ministerialist Independent Liberal Nationalist Economy Party	1906–1920
(Sir) Stanley Argyle	Nationalist	1920–1931
(Sir) Stanley Argyle	United Australia	1931–1940
Harold Thonemann	United Australia	1941–1945
Robert Bell Hamilton	Liberal	1945–1948
Edward Reynolds	Liberal / LCP	1948–1952
Horace Petty	Liberal and Country (LCP)	1952–1964
Philip Hudson	LCP / Liberal	1964–1967

Election results

Main article: Electoral results for the district of Toorak

References

Map showing State Electoral Districts of Toorak and Prahran, State Library of Victoria, 1956.

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