Electoral district of Geelong East

Geelong East Victoria—Legislative Assembly
File:Electoral district of Geelong East, Victoria - 1859.png Location in Victoria, 1859
State	Victoria
Dates current	1859–1877, 1976–1985
Demographic	Urban

Geelong East was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria from 1859 to 1985. It was located south of the city of Geelong, defined in the Victorian Electoral Act, 1858 as:

Commencing at the north-western angle of the town reserve of Geelong; thence by a line south to the River Barwon; thence westward and northwestward by the River Barwon to the western boundary of the reserve at the junction of the Moorabool and Barwon; thence east by the northern boundary of section 25, parish of Barrabool; thence south by the eastern boundaries of sections 25 and 11, and by part of the eastern boundary of section 7, all in the same parish; thence south-easterly by a curved line crossing the Waurn Chain of Ponds to the southern boundary of section 3, parish of Conewarre; thence east by the southern boundaries of sections 3 and 4 in the same parish; thence north-easterly by a curved line crossing the River Barwon to the south-eastern angle of section 11 in the parish of Moolap; thence by the eastern boundary of that section and a line north to the shores of Corio Bay; and thence by the shores of Corio Bay to the north-western angle of the town reserve, the commencing point aforesaid, including the remaining portion of the reserve at Point Henry.

Geelong East (along with Electoral district of Geelong West) was created when the four-member Electoral district of Geelong was abolished in 1859. Geelong West and Geelong East were abolished in 1877, replaced by a re-created 3-member district of Geelong.

After the Electoral district of Bellarine was abolished in 1976, Geelong East was re-created. In 1985, population increases caused another redrawing of electoral boundaries; Geelong East was abolished and Bellarine re-created that year. Graham Ernst, last member for Geelong East, represented Bellarine 1985–1992.

Members

First incarnation (1859–1877, 2 members)
Member 1	Term	Member 2	Term
James Cowie	Oct 1859  – Jan 1860	Alexander Thomson	Oct 1859   – Jul 1861
Augustus Greeves	Feb 1860 – Jul 1861
Butler Cole Aspinall	Aug 1861  – Aug 1864	John Richardson	Aug 1861  – Mar 1876
George Cunningham	Nov 1864  – Dec 1867
Charles Kernot	Mar 1868  – Jan 1871
John Masters Garratt	Apr 1871  – Apr 1877	Charles Kernot	Apr 1876 – Apr 1877

Kernot went on to represent the re-created Geelong from 1877.

Second incarnation (1976–1985, 1 member)
Member	Term
Phil Gude	Mar 1976  –   Mar 1979
Graham Ernst	5 May 1979 – 1 Mar 1985

  ^b = by-election
  ^r = resigned