Electoral district of Villiers and Heytesbury

Former electoral district in Victoria, Australia For the district of the old unicameral Victorian Legislative Council 1851–1856, see Electoral district of Villiers and Heytesbury (Victorian Legislative Council).

Australian electorate

Villiers and Heytesbury Victoria—Legislative Assembly
Location in Victoria
State	Victoria
Created	1856
Abolished	1904
Namesake	Counties of Villiers and Heytesbury

Villiers and Heytesbury was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria from 1856 to 1904. It was based in western Victoria, and included the area from Lake Corangamite along the coast westward past Port Fairy.

The district of Villiers and Heytesbury was one of the initial districts of the first Victorian Legislative Assembly, 1856.

Members for Villiers and Heytesbury in the Legislative Assembly

Two members initially, one after the electoral redistribution of 1889.

Member 1	Term	Member 2	Term
Charles Gavan Duffy	Nov 1856 – Aug 1864	William Rutledge	Nov 1856 – Aug 1859
		Alexander Russell	Oct 1859 – Jul 1861
		Richard Davies Ireland	Aug 1861 – Apr 1864
		Samuel MacGregor	May 1864 – Aug 1864
William Bayles	Nov 1864 – Feb 1880
		John Moffatt	Nov 1864 – Dec 1865
		Frederick Leopold Smyth	Feb 1866 – Dec 1867
		Morgan Augustine McDonnell	Mar 1868 – Apr 1870
		Michael O'Grady	Jul 1870 – Jan 1876
		Joseph Jones	Feb 1876 – Apr 1877
		Jeremiah Dwyer	May 1877 – Nov? 1879
William Anderson	May 1880 – Apr 1892	Joseph Jones	Dec 1879 – Jun 1880
		James Toohey	Jul 1880 – Mar 1889

Thomas Scott	May 1892 – Jun 1896
John Neil McArthur	Jul 1896 – Oct 1900
Peter Campbell McArthur	Nov 1900 – Sep 1902
John Gratton Wilson	Oct 1902 – Nov 1903
John Glasgow	Dec 1903 – May 1904

External links

"Villiers and Heytesbury Election — Petition of R. D. Ireland Esq., Against the Return of William Rutledge Esq" (PDF). Parliament of Victoria. 14 May 1861.

References

"Electoral Districts of South Grant, North Grant, North Grenville, Ripon, Hampden, South Grenville and Polworth, Villiers and Heytesbury, Normanby, Dundas and Follett" (map). 1856. Retrieved 10 May 2013.
Edward Sweetman (1920). Constitutional Development of Victoria, 1851-6. Whitcombe & Tombs Limited. p. 183. Retrieved 4 April 2013.
"Local". Kilmore Free Press. 14 July 1870. p. 2.

"Re-Member (Former Members)". State Government of Victoria. Retrieved 4 April 2013.

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Former electoral districts of Victoria

Electoral districts of the Victorian Legislative Assembly

Labor (54)

Coalition (28)

Liberal (19)	Benambra Berwick Brighton Bulleen Caulfield Croydon Eildon Evelyn Hawthorn Kew Malvern Mornington Narracan Nepean Polwarth Rowville Sandringham South-West Coast Warrandyte
National (9)	Euroa Gippsland East Gippsland South Lowan Mildura Morwell Murray Plains Ovens Valley Shepparton

Greens (3)

Independent (1)

Ringwood

Independent Labor (1)

South Barwon

Vacant (1)

Prahran

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