HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES INDEX OF DIVISIONS ===================================================================== WIMMERA, Victoria ===================================================================== Named for: Wimmera region (Indigenous word meaning "throwing stick") --------------------------------------------------------------------- Created 1901 Redistributed 1906, 1913, 1922, 1937, 1949, 1955, 1969 Abolished 1977 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 1901: Mildura, Nhill, Swan Hill, Warracknabeal 1906: Kerang, Mildura, Swan Hill, Warracknabeal 1913: Kerang, Mildura, Swan Hill, Warracknabeal 1922: Kerang, Mildura, Ouyen, Swan Hill 1937: Kerang, Mildura, St Arnaud, Swan Hill 1949: Horsham, Nhill, St Arnaud, Stawell 1955: Horsham, Maryborough, St Arnaud, Stawell 1969: Ararat, Horsham, Maryborough, Stawell --------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolments --------------------------------------------------------------------- 1901 9,905 1928 49,789 (+02.5) 1954 36,488 (+00.2) 1903 16,691 (+68.5) 1929 49,727 (-00.1) 1955* 40,864 (+12.3) 1906* 27,895 (+67.1) 1931 50,035 (+00.6) 1958 40,943 (+00.2) 1910 31,013 (+11.2) 1934 54,441 (+08.8) 1961 40,627 (-00.7) 1913* 35,208 (+13.5) 1937* 49,008 (-10.0) 1963 40,324 (-00.7) 1914 35,080 (-00.4) 1940 47,675 (-02.7) 1966 40,347 (+00.1) 1917 35,660 (+01.7) 1943 44,949 (-05.7) 1969* 45,938 (+13.9) 1919 37,395 (+04.9) 1946 46,086 (+02.5) 1972 45,403 (-01.2) 1922* 42,373 (+13.3) 1949* 36,686 (-20.4) 1974 49,237 (+08.4) 1925 48,561 (+14.6) 1951 36,420 (-00.7) 1975 50,208 (+02.0) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Two-party majorities --------------------------------------------------------------------- 1901 1903 1906 1910 1913 1914 1917 1919 1922 1925 - na - na -14.2 -16.0 -21.0 - na - na - na - na - na --------------------------------------------------------------------- 1928 1929 1931 1934 1937 1940 1943 1946b 1946 1949 - na - na - na - na - na - na - na - na -12.1 -14.9 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 1951 1954 1955 1958 1961 1963 1966 1969 1972 1974 -13.0 -14.6 -16.8 - na -18.5 -19.2 - na -08.0 -05.6 -11.6 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 1975 -14.2 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Members --------------------------------------------------------------------- Hon Pharez Phillips (Prot) 1901-06 Hugh McClelland (CP) 1931b-37 Sydney Sampson (Ind, Lib, Nat) Alex Wilson (Ind) 1937-46 1906-19 Winton Turnbull (CP) 1946b-49 Hon Percy Stewart (VFU, CP, Ind) William Lawrence (Lib) 1949-58 1919-31 Hon Robert King (CP, NCP) 1958-77 ---------------------------------------------------------------------