North-Eastern District (South Australian Legislative Council)

North-Eastern District was an electoral district for the Legislative Council of South Australia from 1882 until 1912. It was then renamed to Midland District and continued until 1975 when the separate districts were abolished and the state elects members to the Legislative Council as a single district since that time.

At its creation, the North-Eastern District elected six of the 24 members of the Legislative Council. Following the 1902 reduction in the size of the parliament, it elected 4 of 18 (20 after 1915) members. Its initial extent was the House of Assembly districts of Yatala, Gumeracha, Barossa, Wooroora, Light and Burra.^[1]

The Midland district included the Assembly districts of Barossa, Wooroora and Wallaroo thus including Yorke Peninsula (which had been in the Northern District) but giving up the Burra area.^[2]

Members

The members who represented the North-Eastern and Midlands districts were:^[3]

Date of change	Member	Member	member	Member	Member	Member
8 May 1885	Henry Edward Bright	James Martin (re-elected 1894)
28 June 1886			John Bosworth
19 May 1888				John Warren (re-elected 1897)	Henry Ayers
23 May 1891	William Haslam (re-elected 1897)					John James Duncan (resigned 18 Dec 1896)
19 May 1894			William Russell		Martin Peter Friedrich Basedow
6 March 1897						Charles Willcox
22 May 1897
4 June 1898	John Lewis
31 March 1900		Jimmy Duncan
19 May 1900			Thomas Pascoe		Edward Lucas

From the 1902 double dissolution election, each district only elected 4 members, for two terms of the lower house. Legislative Council elections are held at the same time as House of Assembly elections.

Date of change	Member	Member	member	Member
3 May 1902	John Warren (re-elected 1905)	Edward Lucas (re-elected 1905,1912)	Thomas Pascoe (re-elected 1910, 1918, 1921, 1927)	John James Duncan (re-elected 1910)
27 May 1905
2 April 1910
North-eastern renamed to Midland by Act 959 of 1908 from 1912[2]
10 February 1912	Walter Hannaford (re-elected 1921, 1927, 1933)
15 November 1913				David Gordon (re-elected 1918, 1924, 1930, 1938)
6 April 1918		Walter Gordon Duncan (re-elected 1924, 1930, 1938, 1944, 1950, 1956)
15 March 1921
5 April 1924
26 March 1927
5 April 1930
8 April 1933			Ernest William Castine (re-elected 1941)
19 March 1938
29 March 1941	Alexander John Melrose (re-elected 1947, 1953, 1959)
29 April 1944				Reginald John Rudall (re-elected 1950)
8 March 1947			Douglas Peel Gordon
1 November 1948			Colin Rowe (re-elected 1953, 1959, 1965)
4 March 1950
7 March 1953
26 February 1955				Ross Story (re-elected 1956, 1962, 1968)
3 March 1956
17 February 1959
3 March 1962		Maynard Boyd Dawkins (re-elected 1968)
20 October 1962	Leslie Rupert Hart (re-elected 1965)
6 March 1965
2 March 1968
12 September 1970			Keith Russack
10 March 1973	Brian Alfred Chatterton		Cecil William Creedon

References

1. Constitution Act Further Amendment Act 1881 (SA)
2. Constitution Amendment Act 1908 (SA)
3. "Statistical Record of the Legislature 1836-2007: SA Parliament" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 March 2019. Retrieved 14 December 2018.

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