Melbourne North Province

Melbourne North Province was an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Council until 2006. It was abolished from the 2006 state election in the wake of the Bracks Labor government's reform of the Legislative Council.

Melbourne North Victoria—Legislative Council
State	Victoria
Created	1904
Abolished	2006

Members for Melbourne North Province

Member 1		Party	Term	Member 2		Party
	Donald Melville		1904		Francis Stuart
			1907		William Evans	Labor
			1910
			1913
			1914		William Beckett	Labor
			1916
	Esmond Kiernan	Labor	1919
			1922
			1925
			1928
			1931		Herbert Olney	Nationalist
		Independent	1931			United Australia
			1934
			1937
	Archibald Fraser	Labor	1940
			1943		Likely McBrien	Independent
			1946
			1949		John Galbally	Labor
			1952
	Jack Little	Labor	1954
		Labor (A-C)	1955
			1955
	John Walton	Labor	1958
			1961
			1964
			1967
			1970
			1973
			1976
			1979		Giovanni Sgro	Labor
	Caroline Hogg	Labor	1982
			1985
			1988
			1992		Don Nardella	Labor
			1996
	Candy Broad	Labor	1999		Marsha Thomson	Labor
			2002

Election results

Main article: Electoral results for the Melbourne North Province

2002 Victorian state election: Melbourne North Province

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Candy Broad	90,720	69.4	+4.3
	Liberal	Henry Buch	25,976	19.9	−11.4
	Greens	David Cuthbertson	10,674	8.2	+8.2
	Democrats	Penelope Robertson	3,333	2.6	+2.0
Total formal votes			130,703	94.7	0.0
Informal votes			7,276	5.3	0.0
Turnout			137,979	92.5
Two-party-preferred result
	Labor	Candy Broad	101,705	77.8	+10.7
	Liberal	Henry Buch	28,979	22.2	−10.7
	Labor hold		Swing	+10.7

References

• http://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/re-member/bioregsearch.cfm