Templestowe Province

Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Short description Template:Template other 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

Member 1		Party	Year
rowspan=6 Template:Australian party style|	Vasey Houghton	Liberal	1967	Member 2		Party
1970			rowspan=2 Template:Australian party style|	Raymond Garrett	Liberal
1973
1976			rowspan=2 Template:Australian party style|	Ralph Howard	Liberal
1979
1982			rowspan=2 Template:Australian party style|	Mike Arnold	Labor
rowspan=2 Template:Australian party style|	John Miles	Liberal	1985
1988			rowspan=2 Template:Australian party style|	Bruce Skeggs	Liberal
rowspan=4 Template:Australian party style|	Bill Forwood	Liberal	1992
1996			rowspan=2 Template:Australian party style|	Carlo Furletti	Liberal
1999
2002			Template:Australian party style|	Lidia Argondizzo	Labor

Election results

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2002 Victorian state election: Templestowe Province

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
Template:Australian party style |	Template:Australian politics/name	Lidia Argondizzo	56,952	43.5
Template:Australian party style |	Template:Australian politics/name	Carlo Furletti	54,670	41.7
Template:Australian party style |	Template:Australian politics/name	Robyn Roberts	17,469	13.3
Template:Australian party style |	Template:Australian politics/name	Reginald Temple	1,079	0.8
Template:Australian party style |	Template:Australian politics/name	Lee-Anne Poynton	893	0.7
Total formal votes			131,063	96.2
Informal votes			5,195	3.8
Turnout			136,258	93.7
Template:Australian party style |	Template:Australian politics/name	Lidia Argondizzo	70,611	53.9
Template:Australian party style |	Template:Australian politics/name	Carlo Furletti	60,452	46.1
Template:Australian party style |	Template:Australian politics/name gain from Template:Australian politics/name		Swing

References

• 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)

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