Electoral district of Toorak

Toorak Victoria—Legislative Assembly
State	Victoria
Created	1889
Abolished	1967
Demographic	Metropolitan

The electoral district of Toorak was an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Assembly in the British colony and later Australian state of Victoria.

Electoral boundary

A 1956 map of electoral boundaries shows the Toorak district encompassing the inner Melbourne suburbs of Toorak and South Yarra. The district was bordered by the Yarra River to the north, Kooyong Road to the east, Commercial Road and Malvern Road to the south and St Kilda Road to the east.^[1]

Members for Toorak

Member		Party	Term
	(Sir) Matthew Davies		1889–1892
	Alexander McKinley		1892–1894
	Robert Dyce Reid		1894–1897
	Duncan Gillies	Conservative–Liberal Coalition	1897–1903
	George Fairbairn	Non-Labor	1903–1906
	Norman Bayles	Ministerialist Independent Liberal Nationalist Economy Party	1906–1920
	(Sir) Stanley Argyle	Nationalist	1920–1931
		United Australia	1931–1940
	Harold Thonemann	United Australia	1941–1945
	Robert Bell Hamilton	Liberal	1945–1948
	Edward Reynolds	Liberal	1948–1949
		Liberal and Country	1949–1952
	Horace Petty	Liberal and Country	1952–1964
	Philip Hudson	Liberal and Country	1964–1965
		Liberal	1965–1967

References

1. Map showing State Electoral Districts of Toorak and Prahran, State Library of Victoria, 1956.

Coordinates: 37°50′S 145°01′E / 37.84°S 145.01°E