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Higinbotham Province

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Higinbotham
VictoriaLegislative Council
StateVictoria
Created1937
Abolished2006
Area108 km2 (41.7 sq mi)
DemographicMetropolitan

Higinbotham Province was an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Council.[1] It existed as a two-member electorate from 1937 to 2006, with members serving alternating eight-year terms. It was considered a safe seat for the Liberal throughout its history, though it was won by Labor candidate Noel Pullen in Labor's landslide victory at the 2002 state election. It was abolished from the 2006 state election in the wake of the Bracks Labor government's reform of the Legislative Council.

It was located in the south-east of Melbourne. In 2002, when it was last contested, it covered an area of 108 km2 and included the suburbs of Bentleigh, Black Rock, Brighton, Cheltenham, Mentone, Moorabbin, Mordialloc and Sandringham.

Members for Higinbotham Province

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Member 1 Party Year
  James Kennedy United Australia 1937 Member 2 Party
1940   James Disney United Australia
1943
  Liberal 1945   Liberal
1946   Arthur Warner Liberal
  Liberal and Country 1949   Liberal and Country
1949
1952
  Lindsay Thompson Liberal and Country 1954
1955
1958
1961
1964   Baron Snider Liberal and Country
  Liberal 1965   Liberal
1967   Murray Hamilton Liberal
  William Fry Liberal 1967
1970
1973
1976
  Robert Lawson Liberal 1979
1982   Geoffrey Connard Liberal
1985
1988
  Chris Strong Liberal 1992
1996   John Ross Liberal
1999
2002   Noel Pullen Labor

Election results

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2002 Victorian state election: Higinbotham Province
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Michael Heffernan 60,580 45.7 -10.1
Labor Noel Pullen 52,445 39.6 +36.9
Greens Tony McDermott 16,451 12.4 +12.4
Democrats Derek Wilson 2,952 2.2 -39.1
Total formal votes 132,428 97.2 +0.3
Informal votes 3,845 2.8 −0.3
Turnout 136,273 92.7
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Noel Pullen 66,711 50.4 +6.5
Liberal Michael Heffernan 65,717 49.6 -6.5
Labor gain from Liberal Swing +6.5

References

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  1. ^ "Re-Member (Former Members)". State Government of Victoria. Retrieved 25 May 2014.