Electoral District Of Ringarooma
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The Electoral district of Ringarooma was a single-member electoral district of the
Tasmanian House of Assembly The House of Assembly, or Lower House, is one of the two chambers of the Parliament of Tasmania in Australia. The other is the Tasmanian Legislative Council, Legislative Council or Upper House. It sits in Parliament House, Hobart, Parliament Hou ...
. It centred on the town of
Ringarooma Ringarooma is a small town in north-eastern Tasmania. It is located just east of the Ringarooma River and is about south-west from Derby and east-northeast from Launceston. The area around Ringarooma is known for dairy farming and timber har ...
in north-eastern
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. The seat was created in a redistribution ahead of the 1886 election out of parts of the seats of George Town,
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and
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, and was abolished when the Tasmanian parliament adopted the Hare-Clark electoral model in 1909.


Members for Ringarooma


References

* * * Parliament of Tasmania (2006)
The Parliament of Tasmania from 1956
Former electoral districts of Tasmania 1886 establishments in Australia 1909 disestablishments in Australia {{Australia-gov-stub