Electoral district of Wellington (Tasmania)

Not to be confused with Wellington Land District, 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

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

• 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