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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

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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

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

Election results

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References

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