Electoral district of Wellington (Tasmania)

The Electoral district of Wellington was an electoral district of the Tasmanian House of Assembly. It was based in north-western Tasmania in the town of Stanley, and included King Island. The seat extended as far east as Wynyard and Burnie until 1903 when the Burnie seat was created.

The seat was created as a single-member seat ahead of the 1871 election from the western portion of the abolished Devon seat. In 1886, it became a two-member seat. At the 1897 election, Wellington returned to being a single-member seat when Waratah split away from it. It was abolished when the Tasmanian parliament adopted the Hare-Clark electoral model for the entire state in 1909.

Members for Wellington

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Single member: 1871–1886

Member Term
William Moore 1871–1877
William Giblin 1877–1885
James Norton Smith 1885–1886

Two member: 1886–1897

Member Term Member Term
Charles Mackenzie 1886–1897 Charles Fenton (senior) 1886–1897

Single-member: 1897–1909

Member Party Term
  Charles Mackenzie Ministerial 1897–1909

References

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  • Newman, Terry (1994). Representation of the Tasmanian People. Tasmanian Parliamentary Library. ISBN 0-7246-4147-5.
  • Hughes, Colin A.; Graham, B. D. (1976). Voting for the South Australian, Western Australian and Tasmanian Lower Houses, 1890-1964. Canberra: Australian National University. ISBN 0-7081-1334-6.
  • Parliament of Tasmania (2006). The Parliament of Tasmania from 1956 Archived 8 December 2008 at the Wayback Machine