Electoral district of Crowlands

Crowlands
VictoriaLegislative Assembly
Location in Victoria
StateVictoria
Created1859
Abolished1877
DemographicRural

Crowlands was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly[1] in the Australian colony of Victoria from 1859 to 1877. It was located in north-western Victoria and included the town of Swan Hill.[2]

Electoral district of Crowlands, Victoria

The district was defined as being:

Bounded on the west by the Yarriambiack Creek from the junction of the River Wimmera to Lake Corong; thence by a line north to the Murray; again on the west by a tributary of the River Wimmera to its source near Briggs's Bluff in the Grampians; thence southwards by the Grampians range; on the south by the Dividing Range; on the east by the River Avoca and a line north to the Murray; and on the north by the Murray, excepting the country included within the electoral district of Ararat.

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36°10′S 143°00′E / 36.167°S 143.000°E / -36.167; 143.000

  1. ^ "Re-Member (Former Members)". State Government of Victoria. Retrieved 12 April 2013.
  2. ^ "Electoral district of Crowlands" (map). 1863. Retrieved 19 April 2013.
  3. ^ "An Act to alter the Electoral Districts of Victoria and to increase the number of Members of the Legislative Assembly thereof" (PDF). 1858. Retrieved 24 April 2013.