Higinbotham Province was an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Council. It existed as a two-member electorate from 1937 to 2006, with members serving alternating eight-year terms. It was considered a safe seat for the Liberal throughout its history, though it was won by Labor candidate Noel Pullen in Labor's landslide victory at the 2002 state election. 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 south-east of Melbourne. In 2002, when it was last contested, it covered an area of 108 km2 and included the suburbs of Bentleigh, Black Rock, Brighton, Cheltenham, Mentone, Moorabbin, Mordialloc and Sandringham.
Members for Higinbotham Province Member 1PartyYear James KennedyUnited Australia1937Member 2Party1940 James DisneyUnited Australia1943 Liberal 1945 Liberal1946 Arthur WarnerLiberal Liberal and Country 1949 Liberal and Country19491952 Lindsay ThompsonLiberal and Country 19541955195819611964 Baron SniderLiberal and Country Liberal 1965 Liberal 1967 Murray HamiltonLiberal William FryLiberal1967197019731976 Robert LawsonLiberal19791982 Geoffrey ConnardLiberal19851988 Chris StrongLiberal19921996 John RossLiberal19992002 Noel PullenLabor
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