| East Melbourne | |
| State: | vic |
| Created: | 1859 |
| Abolished: | 1927 |
| Class: | Metropolitan |
East Melbourne was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria from 1859 to 1927.
It was defined in the 1858 Electoral Act as: [1] Initially the district was created with two members, this was reduced to one member from the Assembly elections of 1904.
| Member 1 | Term | Member 2 | Term | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alexander Hunter | Oct 1859 – Jun 1861[2] | Sir James McCulloch | Oct 1859 – Jul 1861 | |
| Sir Graham Berry | Jul 1861 | |||
| Ambrose Kyte | Aug 1861 – Dec 1865 | Edward Cohen | Aug 1861 – Dec 1865 | |
| Edward Langton | Feb 1866 – Dec 1867 | Nathaniel Levi | Feb 1866 – Dec 1867 | |
| Frederick Walsh | Mar 1868 – Mar 1874 | Edward Cohen | Mar 1868 – Apr 1877 | |
| George Selth Coppin | May 1874 – Apr 1877 | |||
| Ephraim Zox | May 1877 – Jun 1879 | Alexander Kennedy Smith | May 1877 – Jan 1881 | |
| Ephraim Zox | Jul 1879 – Oct 1899 | Frederick Walsh | Feb 1881 – Feb 1883 | |
| George Selth Coppin | Feb 1883 – Mar 1889 | |||
| Frank Stuart | Apr 1889 – Sep 1894 | |||
| John Anderson | Oct 1894 – Jun 1901 | |||
| Sir Samuel Gillott < | -- elected unopposed 1904 http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/89897289 --> | Nov 1899 – Dec 1906 | John Francis Deegan | Jul 1901 – Sep 1902 |
| William Watt | Oct 1902 – May 1904 | |||
| Single Member District 1904–1927 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Member | Party | Term | ||
| Samuel Gillott | Unaligned | 1904–1906 | ||
| Henry Weedon | Unaligned | 1906–1911 | ||
| Alfred Farthing | Liberal | 1911–1917 | ||
| Nationalist | 1917–1927 | |||
= by-election
= resigned
See main article: Electoral results for the district of East Melbourne.