This is a list of members of the

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

between 1946 and 1949. As half of the Legislative Council's terms expired at each triennial election, half of these members were elected at the 1943 triennial election with terms expiring in 1949, while the other half were elected at the 1946 triennial election with terms expiring in 1952. : In August 1946, Leonard Rodda, Country MLC for

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, resigned. Independent Liberal candidate Hugh MacLeod won the resulting by-election on 30 November 1946. : On 28 December 1947,

Daniel McNamara Daniel Laurence McNamara (28 March 1876 – 28 December 1947) was an Australian politician. He was born at Pomborneit to farmer Michael McNamara and Mary Taff. He worked as a produce agent in Melbourne from 1906 to 1909, and in 1907 joined ...

, Labor MLC for

Melbourne Province Melbourne Province was an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Council (Australia). Melbourne Province was created in 1882 when Central Province was abolished in the redistribution of Provinces. Its area included central Melbourne, Carlto ...

, died. Labor candidate Fred Thomas won the resulting by-election on 20 March 1948. : On 6 June 1948, William Edgar, Liberal MLC for

East Yarra Province East Yarra Province was an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Council The Victorian Legislative Council (VLC) is the upper house of the bicameral Parliament of Victoria, Australia, the lower house being the Legislative Assembly. Both h ...

, died. Liberal candidate

Ewen Paul Cameron Sir Ewen Paul Cameron (15 January 1891 – 18 January 1964) was an Australian politician. Background Cameron was born in Preston, Victoria, the son of Martin Cameron, a grazier from Scotland, and his wife Jane. From 1915 to 1918, he served in t ...

won the resulting by-election on 7 August 1948. : On 30 April 1949, Sir

George Goudie Sir George Louis Goudie (30 April 1866 – 30 April 1949) was an Australian politician. He was born at Homebush to schoolteacher George Goudie and Caroline Ashton. After attending state schools he acquired a farm at Birchip, and from 1904 a ...

, Country MLC for North Western Province, died. No by-election was held due to the proximity of the 1949 triennial election.

Sources

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(a database of all Victorian MPs since 1851).

Parliament of Victoria The Parliament of Victoria is the bicameral legislature of the Australian state of Victoria that follows a Westminster-derived parliamentary system. It consists of the King, represented by the Governor of Victoria, the Legislative Assembly and ...

. * Victorian Year Book 1943–44 {{DEFAULTSORT:Members of the Victorian Legislative Council, 1946-1949 Members of the Parliament of Victoria by term 20th-century Australian politicians