Eumemmerring Province

Eumemmerring Province Victoria—Legislative Council
State	Victoria
Created	1985
Abolished	2006

Eumemmerring Province was an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Council. It existed as a two-member electorate from 1985 to 2006, with members holding alternating eight-year terms. It was a marginal seat throughout its existence, changing parties in the large landslide elections of 1992 and 2002. It was abolished from the 2006 state election in the wake of the Bracks Labor government's reform of the Legislative Council.

It was located on the south-eastern fringe of Melbourne. In 2002, when it was last contested, it covered an area of 2,199 km² and included the suburbs of Berwick, Cockatoo, Dandenong, Emerald, Gembrook, Narre Warren, Warburton and Yarra Junction.

Members for Eumemmerring Province

Member 1		Party	Year
	Fred Van Buren	Labor	1985	Member 2		Party
			1988		Bob Ives	Labor
	Ron Wells	Liberal	1992
			1996		Neil Lucas	Liberal
	Gordon Rich-Phillips	Liberal	1999
			2002		Adem Somyurek	Labor

Election results

Main article: Electoral results for the Eumemmerring Province

2002 Victorian state election: Eumemmerring Province

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Adem Somyurek	67,534	52.9	+8.4
	Liberal	Mick Morland	46,120	36.1	−10.1
	Greens	Val Kay	14,059	11.0	+11.0
Total formal votes			127,713	95.8	−0.1
Informal votes			5,546	4.2	+0.1
Turnout			133,259	93.4
Two-party-preferred result
	Labor	Adem Somyurek	76,438	59.9	+10.5
	Liberal	Mick Morland	51,230	40.1	−10.5
	Labor gain from Liberal		Swing	+10.5