Monday 8 October 2012

Electoral Districts and Mt Evelyn

Your Mt Evelyn relatives may have been rezoned into different electoral districts.

To have a clearer understanding of the situation the following details could be of help as you track down your relatives's names on old Electoral Rolls.
If your library has free access to online genealogy websites you can check out the addresses of your relatives up to the year 1980

Current Electoral district

Previous Electoral Districts and names
 Electoral Districts change over the years
State Divisions
Dates
District
Subdivision
1856-1859
Evelyn and Mornington

1859-1927
Evelyn
Lilydale (1924)
1827-1945
Upper Yarra
Croydon
1945-1955
Evelyn
Croydon
1955-1967
Scoresby
Croydon
1967-1985
Monbulk
Croydon (to 1976)
Silvan (from 1976)
1985-present
Evelyn


Federal Divisions
Dates
   Division
1901-1913
   Mernda
1913-1922
   Flinders
1922-1937
   Indi
1937-1949  
   Deakin
1949-1984
   La Trobe
1984-(redistributions in 1989, 1994 and 2003) 
   Streeton
Present
   Casey

Information supplied by Senior Information and Research Officer of the Victorian Electoral Commission