Electoral district of Mornington
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The Electoral district of Mornington is an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly
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Victorian Legislative Assembly
The Victorian Legislative Assembly is the lower house of the Parliament of Victoria in Australia. Together with the Victorian Legislative Council, the upper house, it sits in Parliament House in the state capital, Melbourne.-History:...
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Members for Mornington
| First incarnation (1859–1967) | |||
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| Member | Party | Term | |
| William Lyall William Lyall William Lyall was a Melbourne pastoralist who established a hunting lodge at Tooradin south east of Cranbourne in the 1870s and became a councillor on the shire in the 1880s. A street in Cranbourne retains his name.... |
Unaligned | 1859–1861 | |
| Henry Champman | Unaligned | 1861–1862 | |
| Sir James McCulloch James McCulloch James McCulloch is also the name of the cashier of the Baltimore branch of the Second National Bank of the United States. This James McCulloch was not involved in the McCulloch vs. Maryland U.S. Supreme Court case.... |
Unaligned | 1862–1872 | |
| James Purves James Purves (politician) James Liddell Purves QC was an Australian barrister and politician.Born in Melbourne to grazier James Purves and Caroline Goillod, he attended Melbourne Diocesan School from 1853 to 1855 and then King's College, London, travelling in Europe before entering Trinity College, Cambridge and Lincoln's... |
Unaligned | 1872–1880 | |
| James Gibb | Unaligned | 1880–1886 | |
| Louis Smith Louis Smith (Australian politician) Louis Lawrence Smith was an Australian politician.Probably born in London to theatre proprietor Edward Tyrell Smith and Madeline Hanette Gengoult, he attended St Saviour's Grammar School and the Ecole de Medicine in Paris before entering Westminster Hospital... |
Unaligned | 1886–1894 | |
| Alfred Downward Alfred Downward Alfred Downward was an Australian politician.Born in Melbourne to Edward and Elizabeth Downward, he was educated at Prahran and Mornington before working on his father's Balnarring sheep farm. From 1874 he had his own property and was highly involved in settlement on the Mornington Peninsula... |
Unaligned | 1894–1929 | |
| Herbert Downward | Country National Party of Australia The National Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Traditionally representing graziers, farmers and rural voters generally, it began as the The Country Party, but adopted the name The National Country Party in 1975, changed to The National Party of Australia in 1982. The party is... |
1929–1932 | |
| Alfred Kirton | United Australia United Australia Party The United Australia Party was an Australian political party that was founded in 1931 and dissolved in 1945. It was the political successor to the Nationalist Party of Australia and predecessor to the Liberal Party of Australia... |
1932–1947 | |
| Country National Party of Australia The National Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Traditionally representing graziers, farmers and rural voters generally, it began as the The Country Party, but adopted the name The National Country Party in 1975, changed to The National Party of Australia in 1982. The party is... |
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| William Leggatt William Leggatt Sir William Watt Leggatt DSO, MC was an Australian soldier, lawyer and politician. He served as commanding officer of the 2/40th Battalion and later Sparrow Force during World War II, fighting in Timor against the Japanese invasion in 1942. He was captured by the Japanese and sent to Changi prison... |
Liberal Liberal Party of Australia The Liberal Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Founded a year after the 1943 federal election to replace the United Australia Party, the centre-right Liberal Party typically competes with the centre-left Australian Labor Party for political office... |
1947–1956 | |
| Roberts Dunstan | Liberal Liberal Party of Australia The Liberal Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Founded a year after the 1943 federal election to replace the United Australia Party, the centre-right Liberal Party typically competes with the centre-left Australian Labor Party for political office... |
1956–1967 | |
| Second incarnation (1985–present) | |||
| Member | Party | Term | |
| Robin Cooper Robin Cooper (Australian politician) Robert Fitzgerald "Robin" Cooper is a former Australian politician.Born in Melbourne, Victoria, he attended Xavier College and later the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology before embarking on a career in sales and marketing in the building supplies industry... |
Liberal Liberal Party of Australia The Liberal Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Founded a year after the 1943 federal election to replace the United Australia Party, the centre-right Liberal Party typically competes with the centre-left Australian Labor Party for political office... |
1985–2006 | |
| David Morris David Morris (Australian politician) David Charles Morris is an Australian politician. He has been a Liberal Party member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly since 2006, representing the seat of Mornington.... |
Liberal Liberal Party of Australia The Liberal Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Founded a year after the 1943 federal election to replace the United Australia Party, the centre-right Liberal Party typically competes with the centre-left Australian Labor Party for political office... |
2006–present | |
Election results
See also
- Parliaments of the Australian states and territoriesParliaments of the Australian states and territoriesThe Parliaments of the Australian states and territories are legislative bodies within the federal framework of the Commonwealth of Australia. Before the formation of the Commonwealth in 1901, the six Australian colonies were self-governing, with parliaments which had come into existence at various...
- List of members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly