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Electoral district of Toorak

Coordinates: 37°50′S 145°01′E / 37.84°S 145.01°E / -37.84; 145.01
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Toorak
VictoriaLegislative Assembly
StateVictoria
Created1889
Abolished1967
DemographicMetropolitan

The electoral district of Toorak was an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Assembly in the British colony and later Australian state of Victoria.

Electoral boundary

A 1956 map of electoral boundaries shows the Toorak district encompassing the inner Melbourne suburbs of Toorak and South Yarra. The district was bordered by the Yarra River to the north, Kooyong Road to the east, Commercial Road and Malvern Road to the south and St Kilda Road to the east.[1]

Members for Toorak

Member Party Term
  (Sir) Matthew Davies 1889–1892
  Alexander McKinley 1892–1894
  Robert Dyce Reid 1894–1897
  Duncan Gillies Conservative–Liberal Coalition 1897–1903
Template:Australian politics/party colours/Nationalist George Fairbairn Non-Labor 1903–1906
Template:Australian politics/party colours/Nationalist Norman Bayles Ministerialist
Independent
Liberal
Nationalist
Economy Party
1906–1920
Template:Australian politics/party colours/Nationalist (Sir) Stanley Argyle Nationalist 1920–1931
Template:Australian politics/party colours/UAP United Australia 1931–1940
Template:Australian politics/party colours/UAP Harold Thonemann United Australia 1941–1945
Template:Australian politics/party colours/Liberal Robert Bell Hamilton Liberal 1945–1948
Template:Australian politics/party colours/Liberal Edward Reynolds Liberal 1948–1949
Template:Australian politics/party colours/Liberal and Country Liberal and Country 1949–1952
Template:Australian politics/party colours/Liberal and Country Horace Petty Liberal and Country 1952–1964
Template:Australian politics/party colours/Liberal and Country Philip Hudson Liberal and Country 1964–1965
Template:Australian politics/party colours/Liberal Liberal 1965–1967

References

37°50′S 145°01′E / 37.84°S 145.01°E / -37.84; 145.01