Electoral district of Ballarat East
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Ballarat East is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly
in the Australia
n state of Victoria
. It is a 3,323 km² part-urban and part-rural electorate covering areas to the east of the regional centre of Ballarat
. It includes the Ballarat suburbs of Ballarat East
, Bakery Hill
, Golden Point
, Eureka
, Canadian
, Mount Pleasant
, Mount Clear
, Mount Helen and Warrenheip
, and the rural towns of Ballan
, Buninyong
, Bungaree
, Creswick
, Daylesford
, Dunnstown
, Hepburn Springs
, Kyneton
, Lal Lal
, Malmsbury
, Meredith
and Steiglitz
. The electorate had a population of 54,127 as of the 2006 census, with 40,578 enrolled electors at the 2010 state election.
Ballarat East was one of the earliest districts of the Legislative Assembly, having been created for the second state election in 1859. It was initially a two-member seat, and as with the rest of the Assembly, was largely non-partisan until 1889, when it became a one-member electorate and began to held by more partisan figures. It was held by successive early liberal parties until they merged into the Nationalist Party of Australia
in the late 1910s, but fell to the Australian Labor Party
in 1924, one term before being abolished in 1927. It was recreated as a marginal seat in 1992, when it was won by conservative Liberal Barry Traynor, but was regained for Labor by Geoff Howard
when the party won office at the 1999 election. Howard was re-elected at the 2002 election, 2006 election
and 2010 election
.
Victorian Legislative Assembly
The Victorian Legislative Assembly is the lower house of the Parliament of Victoria in Australia. Together with the Victorian Legislative Council, the upper house, it sits in Parliament House in the state capital, Melbourne.-History:...
in the Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
n state of Victoria
Victoria (Australia)
Victoria is the second most populous state in Australia. Geographically the smallest mainland state, Victoria is bordered by New South Wales, South Australia, and Tasmania on Boundary Islet to the north, west and south respectively....
. It is a 3,323 km² part-urban and part-rural electorate covering areas to the east of the regional centre of Ballarat
Ballarat, Victoria
Ballarat is a city in the state of Victoria, Australia, approximately west-north-west of the state capital Melbourne situated on the lower plains of the Great Dividing Range and the Yarrowee River catchment. It is the largest inland centre and third most populous city in the state and the fifth...
. It includes the Ballarat suburbs of Ballarat East
Ballarat East, Victoria
Ballarat East, is a suburb of Ballarat in Victoria, Australia. Ballarat East covers a large area east of the CBD. It is the oldest area in Ballarat and was once also a municipality known as the Ballarat East Town Council between 1859 and 1921...
, Bakery Hill
Bakery Hill, Victoria
Bakery Hill is an inner city suburb of Ballarat in Victoria, Australia. It is the smallest suburb in the city of Ballarat in terms of both area and population, which at the 2006 census was just 191 people....
, Golden Point
Golden Point, Victoria
Golden Point is a suburb of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia located south east of the CBD. It is one of the few original suburbs of Ballarat that was established during the Victorian gold rush days. At the 2006 census, Golden Point had a population of 2,147...
, Eureka
Eureka, Victoria
Eureka is a small eastern suburb of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. At the 2006 census, Eureka had a population of 609.Eureka is bordered by Specimen Creek to the north, Canadian Creek to the south, Queen and Joseph streets to the west and Kline and Stawell Street to the east...
, Canadian
Canadian, Victoria
Canadian is a suburb east of the regional city of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia on the rural-urban fringe. At the 2006 census, Canadian had a population of 2,498....
, Mount Pleasant
Mount Pleasant, Victoria
Mount Pleasant is a suburb of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia located south of the CBD. It is one of the few original gold mining towns in the Ballarat district established during the Victorian gold rush...
, Mount Clear
Mount Clear, Victoria
Mount Clear is a semi-rural suburb of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia located south of the CBD is a suburb of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia located south of the CBD in the Canadian Creek Valley. At the 2006 census, Mount Clear had a population of 2,346....
, Mount Helen and Warrenheip
Warrenheip, Victoria
Warrenheip is a small suburb of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia located on the western rural-urban fringe. At the 2006 census, Warrenheip had a population of 435....
, and the rural towns of Ballan
Ballan, Victoria
Ballan is a small town in the state of Victoria, Australia located on the Werribee River north west of Melbourne. At the 2006 census, Ballan had a population of 1,807.It is the main administrative centre for the Shire of Moorabool Local Government Area....
, Buninyong
Buninyong, Victoria
Buninyong is a place in Victoria, Australia. The town is on the Midland Highway, south of Ballarat on the road to Geelong. It's known locally as the drug smuggling capital of the South West region. Local Dealers are said to import the majority of their cannabis supply from farmers in Durham Lead...
, Bungaree
Bungaree, Victoria
Bungaree is a town in Victoria, Australia. The town is located west of the state capital, Melbourne and east of the regional centre of Ballarat, on the Western Freeway and in the Shire of Moorabool local government area. At the 2006 census, Bungaree and the surrounding area had a population of...
, Creswick
Creswick, Victoria
Creswick is a town in west-central Victoria, Australia. It is located 18 kilometres north of Ballarat and 129 km northwest of Melbourne, in Shire of Hepburn. It is 430 metres above sea level. At the 2006 census, Creswick had a population of 2,485...
, Daylesford
Daylesford, Victoria
Daylesford is a town located in the Shire of Hepburn, Victoria, Australia. It is a former goldmining town about 115 kilometres north-west of Melbourne, in the foothills of the Great Dividing Range. At the 2006 census, Daylesford had a population of 3,073...
, Dunnstown
Dunnstown, Victoria
Dunnstown is a town in Victoria, Australia. The town is located in the Shire of Moorabool, west of the state capital, Melbourne and close to the regional centre of Ballarat...
, Hepburn Springs
Hepburn Springs, Victoria
Hepburn Springs is a resort town located in the middle of the largest concentration of mineral springs in Australia. It is in Victoria, 48 km northeast of Ballarat. At the 2006 census, Hepburn Springs had a population of 601 and Hepburn had a population of 375. Total population of...
, Kyneton
Kyneton, Victoria
Kyneton is a town on the Calder Highway in the Macedon Ranges of Victoria, Australia. The Calder Freeway bypasses Kyneton to the north and east. The town was named after the English village of Kineton, Warwickshire. The town has three main streets: Mollison Street, Piper Street and High Street...
, Lal Lal
Lal Lal, Victoria
Lal Lal is a town in Victoria , Australia. The town is located in the Shire of Moorabool and on the Geelong-Ballarat railway line, west of the state capital, Melbourne...
, Malmsbury
Malmsbury, Victoria
Malmsbury is a town in central Victoria, Australia. It lies on the Old Calder Highway , 96 km north west of the state capital, Melbourne and 11 km north west of Kyneton. Situated close by the Coliban River, Malmsbury has a population of 587...
, Meredith
Meredith, Victoria
Meredith is a town in Victoria, Australia, located on the Midland Highway between Ballarat and Geelong.Meredith Post Office opened on 1 November 1854 and the railway came to the town with the opening of the Geelong-Ballarat line in 1862, with the local railway station opened soon after. Now only...
and Steiglitz
Steiglitz, Victoria
Steiglitz is a small town in Victoria, west of the state capital, Melbourne, Australia, in the Brisbane Ranges. In the early 1850s gold was found near the town, and as a consequence it grew. Following the decline of the Australian gold rushes in the late 1870s the town declined. The last gold mine...
. The electorate had a population of 54,127 as of the 2006 census, with 40,578 enrolled electors at the 2010 state election.
Ballarat East was one of the earliest districts of the Legislative Assembly, having been created for the second state election in 1859. It was initially a two-member seat, and as with the rest of the Assembly, was largely non-partisan until 1889, when it became a one-member electorate and began to held by more partisan figures. It was held by successive early liberal parties until they merged into the Nationalist Party of Australia
Nationalist Party of Australia
The Nationalist Party of Australia was an Australian political party. It was formed on 17 February 1917 from a merger between the conservative Commonwealth Liberal Party and the National Labor Party, the name given to the pro-conscription defectors from the Australian Labor Party led by Prime...
in the late 1910s, but fell to the Australian Labor Party
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...
in 1924, one term before being abolished in 1927. It was recreated as a marginal seat in 1992, when it was won by conservative Liberal Barry Traynor, but was regained for Labor by Geoff Howard
Geoff Howard
Geoffrey Kemp "Geoff" Howard is an Australian politician. He has been an Australian Labor Party member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly since 1999, representing Ballarat East....
when the party won office at the 1999 election. Howard was re-elected at the 2002 election, 2006 election
Victorian state election, 2006
An election for the 56th Parliament of Victoria took place on Saturday, 25 November 2006. Just over 3 million Victorians registered to vote elected 88 members to the Legislative Assembly and, for the first time, 40 members to the Legislative Council under a proportional representation system...
and 2010 election
Victorian state election, 2010
The 2010 Victorian state election was held on 27 November. The incumbent centre-left Australian Labor Party government, led by John Brumby, was defeated by the centre-right Liberal/National Coalition opposition, led by Ted Baillieu....
.
Members for Ballarat East
| First incarnation (1859–1889) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Member | Party | Term | |
| John Humffray | Unaligned | 1859–1864 | |
| John Cathie | Unaligned | 1859–1864 | |
| Charles Jones Charles Jones (Victorian politician) Charles Edwin Jones was an Australian politician.Jones was born in Devonport in England to Welsh tailor John Jones and Elizabeth, née Tucker, becoming a tailor like his father. He became involved in radical and temperance causes and vigorously opposed Roman Catholicism... |
Unaligned | 1864–1867 | |
| Charles Dyte | Unaligned | 1864–1871 | |
| John Humffray | Unaligned | 1868–1871 | |
| John James | Unaligned | 1871–1886 | |
| Robert Walsh | Unaligned | 1871–1874 | |
| Townsend McDermott | Unaligned | 1874–1877 | |
| Daniel Brophy | Unaligned | 1877–1880 | |
| James Russell | Unaligned | 1880 | |
| Daniel Brophy | Unaligned | 1880–1883 | |
| James Russell | Unaligned | 1883–1889 | |
| Edward Murphy | Unaligned | 1886–1889 | |
| Second incarnation (1889–1927) | |||
| Member | Party | Term | |
| John Dunn | Comm Liberal Commonwealth Liberal Party The Commonwealth Liberal Party was a political movement active in Australia from 1909 to 1916, shortly after federation.... |
1889–1894 | |
| Robert McGregor | Comm Liberal Commonwealth Liberal Party The Commonwealth Liberal Party was a political movement active in Australia from 1909 to 1916, shortly after federation.... |
1894–1924 | |
| Nationalist Nationalist Party of Australia The Nationalist Party of Australia was an Australian political party. It was formed on 17 February 1917 from a merger between the conservative Commonwealth Liberal Party and the National Labor Party, the name given to the pro-conscription defectors from the Australian Labor Party led by Prime... |
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| William McAdam William McAdam (Australian politician) William James McAdam was an Australian politician.Born in Emerald Hill to blacksmith Alexander McAdam and Mary Ann Vigar, he attended state schools in Ballarat before becoming a bread carter. He became an organiser of the Bread Carters Union in 1904, rising to become secretary in 1924... |
Labor Australian Labor Party The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia... |
1924–1927 | |
| Third incarnation (1992–present) | |||
| Member | Party | Term | |
| Barry Traynor | Liberal Liberal Party of Australia The Liberal Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Founded a year after the 1943 federal election to replace the United Australia Party, the centre-right Liberal Party typically competes with the centre-left Australian Labor Party for political office... |
1992–1999 | |
| Geoff Howard Geoff Howard Geoffrey Kemp "Geoff" Howard is an Australian politician. He has been an Australian Labor Party member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly since 1999, representing Ballarat East.... |
Labor Australian Labor Party The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia... |
1999– | |