Emerald Hill was an electoral district 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 ...

, Australia. It covered part of the inner-city suburb

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and consisted part of the previous

Electoral district of South Melbourne Electoral district of South Melbourne was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the British colony of Victoria (Australia). Its area was defined by the Victoria Constitution Act as: "''Bounded on the North by the Yarra Yarra Ri ...

which was abolished in 1859. (The other part of the South Melbourne electorate became the

Electoral district of Sandridge Sandridge was an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. It existed from 1859 until 1889, when it was abolished and replaced with Port Melbourne Port Melbourne is an inner-city suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, so ...

1859

Emerald Hill was first proclaimed in 1859, and was defined in the Victorian Electoral Act, 1858 (which took effect at the 1859 elections) as: This point is approximately where Wurundjeri Way crosses the south bank of the river now.The Gas Works are shown on this 1855 map of Melbourne (at right). Melbourne map 1855

1889

Emerald Hill was redefined as a single-member electorate by the Electoral Act Amendment Act 1888 (which took effect at the 1889 elections) as: That part of the pre-1888 district immediately south of the Yarra became the

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. Parts of the electorate were later amalgamated into the

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Members for Emerald Hill

References

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