This is a list of members of the South Australian Legislative Council from 1857 to February 1861.
This was the first Legislative Council to be elected under the new Constitution, which provided for a house consisting of eighteen members to be elected from the whole State acting as one Electoral District; that six members, selected by lot, should be replaced at General Elections after four years, another six to be replaced four years later and thenceforth each member should have a term of twelve years.[1] [2] [3]
Name | Time in office | Term expires | Previously represented / Notes |
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1851– | Feb. 1865 | Barossa | |
1857– | Feb. 1869 | ||
1851–1853 1857–1861 1865–1869 | Feb. 1861 | Light | |
1851–1861 1863–1872 | Feb. 1861 | Mount Barker | |
1855– | Feb. 1873 | Non-Official nominee | |
Charles Davies MD | 1857– | Feb. 1865 | |
1857– | Feb. 1869 | ||
1855– | Feb. 1865 | Non-Official nominee | |
1855– | Feb. 1873 | ||
1855–1859 | Feb 1861 | Official nominee (Surveyor-General). Resigned August 1859 | |
1851–1855, 1857–1859 | Feb. 1861 | Non-Official nominee. Vacated seat August 1859 to take position of Supreme Court judge. | |
1851– | Feb. 1869 | Port Adelaide | |
1851– | Feb. 1865 | Non-Official nominee | |
1857–1863 | Feb. 1865 | ||
1857–1867 | Feb. 1873 | ||
1855– | Feb. 1869 | ||
1855– | Feb. 1865 | Non-Official nominee | |
1860–1863 | Feb. 1869 | elected April 1860 to fill vacancy; seat declared vacant June 1863 | |
1860– | Feb. 1869 | elected April 1860 to fill vacancy | |
1851–1861 | Feb. 1861 | Stanley | |