Eastern Province was an electorate of the

Victorian Legislative Council The Victorian Legislative Council is the upper house of the bicameral Parliament of Victoria, Australia, the lower house being the Victorian Legislative Assembly, Legislative Assembly. Both houses sit at Parliament House, Melbourne, Parliament ...

, Victoria being a colony in the continent of Australia at the time. It was one of the six original Provinces of the bi-cameral Legislative Council created in November 1856. Its area was defined in the Victoria Constitution Act 1855 ( 18 & 19 Vict. c. 55) as: Eastern Province was abolished by the Legislative Council Act of 1881 (taking effect at the November 1882 elections). Eastern Province was replaced by the new provinces of North Eastern and

Gippsland Gippsland () is a rural region in the southeastern part of Victoria, Australia, mostly comprising the coastal plains south of the Victorian Alps (the southernmost section of the Great Dividing Range). It covers an elongated area of east of th ...

of three members each.

Members for Eastern Province

These were members of the upper house province of the Victorian Legislative Council. After Eastern Province was abolished in 1882, Anderson and Wallace went on to represent North Eastern from 1882; Dougharty, McCulloch and Pearson went on to represent

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{{Electoral provinces of Victoria Former electoral provinces of Victoria (state) 1856 establishments in Australia 1882 disestablishments in Australia