Electoral district of Ballarat East

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Ballarat East is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria. It is a 3,323km² part-urban and part-rural electorate covering areas to the east of the regional centre of Ballarat. It includes the Ballarat suburbs of Ballarat East, Ballarat South, Buninyong, Canadian, Mount Clear and Mount Pleasant, and the rural towns of Ballan, Bungaree, Creswick, Daylesford, Hepburn Springs, Kyneton, Lal Lal, Malmsbury, Meredith and Steiglitz. The electorate had a population of 51,926 as of the 2001 census.

Ballarat East was one of the earliest districts of the Legislative Assembly, having been created for the second state election in 1859. It was initially a two-member seat, and as with the rest of the Assembly, was largely non-partisan until 1889, when it became a one-member electorate and began to held by more partisan figures. It was held by successive early liberal parties until they merged into the Nationalist Party of Australia in the late 1910s, but fell to the Australian Labor Party in 1924, one term before being abolished in 1927. It was recreated as a marginal seat in 1992, when it was won by conservative Liberal Barry Traynor, but was regained for Labor by Geoff Howard when the party won office at the 1999 election. Howard was comfortably re-elected at both the 2002 election and 2006 election.

[edit] Members for Ballarat East

First incarnation (18591889)
Member Party Term
  John Humffray Unaligned 1859-1864
  John Cathie Unaligned 1859-1864
  Charles Jones Unaligned 1864-1867
  Charles Dyte Unaligned 1864-1871
  John Humffray Unaligned 1868-1871
  John James Unaligned 1871-1886
  Robert Walsh Unaligned 1871-1874
  Townsend McDermott Unaligned 1874-1877
  Daniel Brophy Unaligned 1877-1880
  James Russell Unaligned 1880-1880
  Daniel Brophy Unaligned 1880-1883
  James Russell Unaligned 1883-1889
  Edward Murphy Unaligned 1886-1889
Second incarnation (18891927)
Member Party Term
  John Dunn Liberal 1889-1894
  Robert McGregor Liberal/Nationalist 1894-1924
  William McAdam Labor 1924-1927
Third incarnation (1992—present)
Member Party Term
  Barry Traynor Liberal 1992-1999
  Geoff Howard Labor 1999-

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