Templestowe Province

Templestowe
VictoriaLegislative Council
StateVictoria
Created1967
Abolished2006
Area123 km2 (47.5 sq mi)
DemographicMetropolitan

Templestowe Province was an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Council. It existed as a two-member electorate from 1967 to 2006, with members serving alternating eight-year terms. It was traditionally held by the Liberal Party, but was held by the Labor Party on two occasions: from 1982 to 1988 and again from 2002 to 2006. 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 in the north-east of Melbourne. In 2002, when it was last contested, it covered an area of 123 km2 and included the suburbs of Bulleen, Doncaster, Eltham, Heidelberg, Ivanhoe, Montmorency, Rosanna and Templestowe.

Members for Templestowe Province

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Member 1 Party Year
  Vasey Houghton Liberal 1967 Member 2 Party
1970   Raymond Garrett Liberal
1973
1976   Ralph Howard Liberal
1979
1982   Mike Arnold Labor
  John Miles Liberal 1985
1988   Bruce Skeggs Liberal
  Bill Forwood Liberal 1992
1996   Carlo Furletti Liberal
1999
2002   Lidia Argondizzo Labor

Election results

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2002 Victorian state election: Templestowe Province
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Lidia Argondizzo 56,952 43.5 +42.1
Liberal Carlo Furletti 54,670 41.7 −11.8
Greens Robyn Roberts 17,469 13.3 −21.5
Independent Reginald Temple 1,079 0.8 +0.8
Hope Lee-Anne Poynton 893 0.7 +0.7
Total formal votes 131,063 96.2 −0.8
Informal votes 5,195 3.8 +0.8
Turnout 136,258 93.7
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Lidia Argondizzo 70,611 53.9 +9.6
Liberal Carlo Furletti 60,452 46.1 −9.6
Labor gain from Liberal Swing +9.6

References

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  • Psephos Election Results for Victoria — Adam Carr's Election Archive
  • Province of Templestowe — Parliamentary Handbook for the 55th Parliament of Victoria
  • Newspaper articles:
    • "Preselection – Another Lib MP Dumped", Sunday Age, 1991-06-02
    • "Judges Seek Justice", The Age, 1994-03-10
    • Obituary for Sir Raymond Garrett, The Age, 1994-10-25
    • "Libs Dump Veteran MP", Paul Robinson, Sunday Age, 1995-12-03
    • "Man Of Vision Gets Honorable Send-off", Meaghan Shaw, The Age, 2001-01-17
  • Victorian Electoral Commission (correspondence)