Members Of The South Australian Legislative Council, 1891–1894
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South Australian Legislative Council The Legislative Council, or upper house, is one of the two chambers of the Parliament of South Australia. Its central purpose is to act as a house of review for legislation passed through the lower house, the House of Assembly. It sits in Parli ...
from 1891 to 1894. This was the third Legislative Council to be affected by the amendments to the Constitution, which provided for the Colony to be divided into four districts: (1)
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; (2)
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; (3)
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and (4)
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, with six members in each division; one third of each to be replaced in rotation every three years. (Previously, the whole colony acted as one electoral district "The Province" with one third replaced at General Elections every four years.)


References


Parliament of South Australia — Statistical Record of the Legislature
{{DEFAULTSORT:Members of the South Australian Legislative Council, 1891-1894 Members of South Australian parliaments by term 19th-century Australian politicians