The electoral district of Gippsland South (initially known as South Gippsland) is a
Lower House
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electoral district of the
Victorian Parliament
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 ...
.
It is located within the
Eastern Victoria Region
Eastern Victoria Region is one of the eight electoral regions of Victoria, Australia, which elects five members to the Victorian Legislative Council (also referred to as the upper house) by proportional representation. The region was created in 2 ...
of the
Legislative Council.
Gippsland South extends along the state's coast from Venus Bay to Loch Sport
and includes the country Victorian towns of
Foster,
Korumburra
Korumburra is a town in the Australian state of Victoria. It is located on the South Gippsland Highway, south-east of Melbourne, in the South Gippsland Shire local government area. At the Korumburra had an urban population of 3,639.
Surroun ...
,
Leongatha
Leongatha is a town in the foothills of the Strzelecki Ranges, South Gippsland Shire, Victoria, Australia, located south-east of Melbourne. At the , Leongatha had a population of 5,869.
Canadian dairy company Saputo which trades in Australia ...
,
Mirboo North,
Port Albert
Port Albert is a coastal town in Victoria, Australia, on the coast of Corner Inlet on the Yarram - Port Albert Road, south-east of Morwell, south-east of Melbourne, in the Shire of Wellington. At the , Port Albert had a population of 293.
L ...
,
Port Welshpool, Rosedale,
Sale and
Yarram
The township of Yarram (formerly Yarram Yarram) is in Victoria, Australia, in the Shire of Wellington, located in the southeast of Gippsland. At the , the population of the town was . The town is the regional centre of a prosperous farming distri ...
. The electorate includes all of
South Gippsland Shire
The Shire of South Gippsland is a local government area in Victoria, Australia, located in the south-eastern part of the state. It covers an area of and, in June 2018, had a population of 29,576.
It includes the towns of Leongatha, Korumburra ...
and the southern parts of
Wellington Shire.
Industries include agriculture, timber production and tourism. Dairying is the biggest agricultural contributor to the local economy. Natural features include Wilsons Promontory National Park, Corner Inlet, and a number of lakes and islands along the coast and border.
Its area was initially defined by the 1858 Electoral Act as: "''Commencing at the mouth of Merryman's Creek on the
Ninety Mile Beach; bounded on the north by Merryman's Creek to where the road from
Tarraville
Tarraville is a town in Gippsland, Victoria, Australia, located near the mouth of the Tarra River and southeast of Melbourne.
History
Tarraville was established as a village in 1841, when the land was selected as part of the Reeve's Specia ...
to
Rosedale crosses said creek near Bayless's pre-emptive right, thence by a line west fourteen degrees to Buneep; on the west by the counties of
Evelyn and
Mornington to
Cape Patterson; and on the south and south-east by the sea-coast to the commencing point''"
The Electoral Act Amendment Act of 1888 created new districts of
Gippsland Central,
Gippsland East and
Gippsland West and reduced the size of Gippsland South (renaming it from South Gippsland) and Gippsland North.
It has never been won by the
Labor Party, and has been in the hands of the
National Party for all but two terms since 1929.
Sir
Herbert Hyland
Sir Herbert John Thornhill Hyland (15 March 1884 – 18 March 1970), storekeeper, investor, and politician, was born in 1884 at Prahran, Melbourne, second son of George Hyland, a Victorian-born painter, and his wife Mary, née Thornhill, from Ir ...
held the seat for thirty years from 1929 until he died in office in 1970. He held many portfolios in government including Transport, Chief Secretary, State Development, Labour, Decentralisation and Transport and Prices. Hyland was knighted in 1952,
/sup> and elected leader of the parliamentary Country Party in 1955.
The district is currently held by Nationals MP Danny O'Brien, who won the seat in a by-election
A by-election, also known as a special election in the United States and the Philippines, a bye-election in Ireland, a bypoll in India, or a Zimni election (Urdu: ضمنی انتخاب, supplementary election) in Pakistan, is an election used to f ...
in 2015 following the resignation of former Nationals leader Peter Ryan.
= now known as Merriman Creek
Members for Gippsland South
Election results
Historical maps
Electoral district of Gippsland South.png, Location of Gippsland South district, circa 2010
External links
Electorate profile: Gippsland South District, Victorian Electoral Commission
References
Electoral districts of Victoria (Australia)
Shire of South Gippsland
1859 establishments in Australia
Shire of Wellington
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