The electoral district of Belfast was an electorate of the

Victorian Legislative Assembly The Victorian Legislative Assembly is the lower house of the bicameral Parliament of Victoria in Australia; the upper house being the Victorian Legislative Council. Both houses sit at Parliament House in Spring Street, Melbourne. The presiding ...

in the British colony of

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. It was one of the original lower house seats in the first

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in 1856. Belfast was renamed in 1889 to

Port Fairy Port Fairy (historically known as Belfast) is a coastal town in south-western Victoria, Australia. It lies on the Princes Highway in the Shire of Moyne, west of Warrnambool and west of Melbourne, at the point where the Moyne River enters the S ...

after the town of Belfast was also renamed.

Electoral boundary

The Constitution of Victoria 1856 described the boundary of the electoral district of Belfast as:

''"Commencing at a point on the sea coast bearing south 7 degrees 30 minutes west, 16
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25 links from the south-west angle of section No. 15, township of Belfast, and bounded on the west by a line bearing north 62 chains; on the north by a line bearing east 45 chains 25 links; again on the west by a line bearing north 3 chains 75 links to the River Moyne, by that river to its mouth, and by the sea coast to the point of commencement; also that portion commencing at the south-west angle of section A, parish of Belfast, and bounded on the north-east by a line bearing north-west 15 chains to the Moyne Saltwater Lagoon, by that lagoon and the River Moyne to its mouth and by the sea coast northerly to the last mentioned point of commencement."''

Members for Belfast

O'Loghlen went on to represent the renamed

from 1889.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Belfast Former electoral districts of Victoria (state) 1856 establishments in Australia 1889 disestablishments in Australia