Creswick was an

electoral district An electoral district, also known as an election district, legislative district, voting district, constituency, riding, ward, division, or (election) precinct is a subdivision of a larger state (a country, administrative region, or other polity ...

of the Legislative Assembly in the colony, and later Australian state of

Victoria Victoria most commonly refers to: * Victoria (Australia), a state of the Commonwealth of Australia * Victoria, British Columbia, provincial capital of British Columbia, Canada * Victoria (mythology), Roman goddess of Victory * Victoria, Seychelle ...

centred on the town of

Creswick Creswick is a town in west-central Victoria, Australia, 18 kilometres north of Ballarat and 122 kilometres northwest of Melbourne, in the Shire of Hepburn. It is 430 metres above sea level. At the 2016 census, Creswick had a populatio ...

from 1859 to 1904. It was defined in the 1858 Electoral Act, its area being bound by Greens Gully,

Loddon River The Loddon River, an inland river of the northcentral catchment, part of the Murray-Darling basin, is located in the lower Riverina bioregion and Central Highlands and Loddon Mallee regions of the Australian state of Victoria. The headwaters ...

Great Dividing Range The Great Dividing Range, also known as the East Australian Cordillera or the Eastern Highlands, is a cordillera system in eastern Australia consisting of an expansive collection of mountain ranges, plateaus and rolling hills, that runs rough ...

Coliban River The Coliban River, an inland perennial river of the northcentral catchment, part of the Murray-Darling basin, is located in the lower Riverina bioregion and Central Highlands region of the Australian state of Victoria. The headwaters of the C ...

Middleton Creek Middleton Creek may refer to: Australia * Middleton Creek (Queensland) * Middleton Creek (Victoria) Canada * Middleton Creek (Ontario) United States * Middleton Creek (California) * Middleton Creek (Kentucky), crossed by highway KY 2920 * Middlet ...

, and Limestone Creek.

Members for Creswick

Two members initially, three members from 1877, then one from 1889 in the electoral redistribution where 41 new seats were created. :Wheeler went on to represent Daylesford April 1889 to October 1900. :Anderson went on to represent

Windermere Windermere (sometimes tautology (language), tautologically called Windermere Lake to distinguish it from the nearby town of Windermere, Cumbria (town), Windermere) is the largest natural lake in England. More than 11 miles (18 km) in leng ...

May 1894 to May 1898.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Creswick Former electoral districts of Victoria (state) 1859 establishments in Australia 1904 disestablishments in Australia