The Electoral district of Wimmera was one of the original sixteen electoral districts of the old

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of 1851 to 1856.

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was a colony in Australia at the time. The district was located in the far north-west of Victoria, its area was defined as being ''"Bounded on the east by the

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to Lake Bael Bael and thence by a line due north to the

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on the north by the River Murray to the

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n frontier on the west by the South Australian frontier and on the south by the Counties of Follett, Dundas and

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"''. From 1856 onwards, the

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consisted of two houses, the Victorian Legislative Council (upper house, consisting of Provinces) and 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 presidin ...

(lower house).

Members

: = resigned : = by-election Taylor later represented Southern Province in the

from April 1864.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Wimmera Former electoral districts of Victorian Legislative Council 1851 establishments in Australia 1856 disestablishments in Australia

Members

See also

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