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2025 Tasmanian Legislative Council Periodic Election
The 2025 Tasmanian Legislative Council periodic election was held on 24 May 2025 to elect three members of the Tasmanian Legislative Council. The seats of Montgomery, Nelson and Pembroke were up for election. The elections were initially scheduled to be held on 3 May 2025. However, they were postponed on 25 March 2025 following consultation with the Tasmanian Electoral Commission (TEC) to prevent a possible clash with the 2025 federal election, which was called three days later. Background Unlike other Australian state parliaments, the Tasmanian House of Assembly is elected from multi-member districts, while the Legislative Council is elected from single-member districts. The reverse is the case in most of the rest of Australia; that is, the lower house is elected from single-member districts while the upper house is elected from multi-member districts. The Legislative Council has 15 seats, with members elected to a six-year term. Elections are staggered, alternating betwe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tasmanian Legislative Council
The Tasmanian Legislative Council is the upper house of the Parliament of Tasmania in Australia. It is one of the two Chambers of parliament, chambers of the Parliament, the other being the Tasmanian House of Assembly, House of Assembly. Both houses sit in Parliament House, Hobart, Parliament House in the state capital, Hobart. Members of the Legislative Council are often referred to as MLCs. The Legislative Council has 15 members elected using instant-runoff voting, preferential voting in 15 single-member electorates. Each electorate has approximately the same number of electors. A review of Legislative Council division boundaries is required every 9 years; the most recent was completed in 2017. Election of members in the Legislative Council are staggered elections, staggered. Elections alternate between three divisions in one year and in two divisions the next year. Elections take place on the first Saturday in May. The term of each MLC is six years. Tasmanian's upper house is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Members Of The Tasmanian Legislative Council
{{Use Australian English, date=November 2016 These are lists of members of the Tasmanian Legislative Council. Members of the Legislative Council serve six-year terms, with two or three members facing re-election at periodic elections held every year. Due to the difficulty of categorising members without having lists for each individual year, members are categorised here in six-year blocks starting firstly from 1885 and then from 1999. * Members of the Tasmanian Legislative Council, 1879–1885, 1879–1885 * Members of the Tasmanian Legislative Council, 1885–1891, 1885–1891 * Members of the Tasmanian Legislative Council, 1891–1897, 1891–1897 * Members of the Tasmanian Legislative Council, 1897–1903, 1897–1903 * Members of the Tasmanian Legislative Council, 1903–1909, 1903–1909 * Members of the Tasmanian Legislative Council, 1909–1915, 1909–1915 * Members of the Tasmanian Legislative Council, 1915–1921, 1915–1921 * Members of the Tasmanian Legislative Council ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2023 Tasmanian Legislative Council Periodic Election
Periodic elections for the Tasmanian Legislative Council were held on 6 May 2023. Three seats were up for a regularly scheduled vote; Launceston, Murchison and Rumney. All three incumbents were reelected.. Launceston The seat of Launceston, based in the inland Tasmanian city of Launceston, has been held by independent member Rosemary Armitage since 2011. Launceston Results Murchison The west coast seat of Murchison has been held by independent member Ruth Forrest since 2005. Murchison Results Rumney The south-eastern seat of Rumney has been held by Labor's Sarah Lovell since 2017. Rumney Results , - style="background-color:#E9E9E9" ! colspan="6" style="text-align:left;" , After distribution of preferences References {{Tasmanian elections Tasmanian Legislative Council Tasmanian Tasmania (; palawa kani: ''Lutruwita'') is an island state of Australia. It is located to the south of the Australian mainland, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral Division Of Murchison
The electoral division of Murchison is one of the fifteen electorates in the Tasmanian Legislative Council, situated in the western/ north-west region of the state. It is the largest electorate in size, covering an area of 19,391 km² and includes the municipalities of Circular Head, King Island, Waratah-Wynyard, West Coast and part of Burnie City. Ruth Forrest has been the sitting member for Murchison since 2005, she ran unopposed in 2011, and was re-elected in 2017 and 2023. The next scheduled election is in 2029. As of January 2019, there were 27,059 enrolled voters.Legislative Council Divisional Enrolment as at 31 January 2019 Tasmanian Legislative Council, 6 February 2019. History ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Senators From Tasmania
This is a list of senators from the state of Tasmania since the Federation of Australia The Federation of Australia was the process by which the six separate British self-governing colonies of Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia (which also governed what is now the Northern Territory), and Wester ... in 1901. List See also * Electoral results for the Australian Senate in Tasmania References {{Australian Senate delegations * Senators, Tasmania ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
President Of The Senate (Australia)
The president of the Senate is the Speaker (politics), presiding officer of the Australian Senate, the upper house of the Parliament of Australia. The counterpart in the lower house is the Speaker of the Australian House of Representatives, speaker of the House of Representatives. The office of the presidency of the senate was established in 1901 by section 17 of the Constitution of Australia. The primary responsibilities of the office is to oversee Parliamentary debate, senate debates, determine which Member of parliament, senators may speak, maintain order and the Code of conduct, parliamentary code of conduct during sessions and uphold all rules and orders of the senate. The current president is Sue Lines, who was elected on 26 July 2022. The Senate elects one of its members as president at the start of each new term, or whenever the position is vacant. This is usually—though not necessarily—a member of the party or coalition that has formed government in the Australian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Two-party-preferred Vote
In Australian politics, the two-party-preferred vote (TPP or 2PP), is the result of an opinion poll or a projection of an election result where preferences are distributed to one of the two major parties, the Labor Party and the Liberal/National Coalition e.g. "Coalition 50%, Labor 50%. The preference distribution is usually based upon the results of the last election, and the votes for other candidates are distributed between to the two parties. As such the TPP is a rough indicator of voting intent that focuses on determining the likely majority in the lower house. It is compared to previous values to predict the swing and hence the likelihood of a change in government between the major parties. The TPP assumes a two-party system of government, i.e. that after distribution of votes from less successful candidates, the two remaining candidates will be from each of the two major parties. It provides no indication of the number of representatives of other parties or independe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2019 Tasmanian Legislative Council Periodic Election
Periodic elections for the Tasmanian Legislative Council were held on 4 May 2019. The three seats up for election were Electoral division of Montgomery, Montgomery, Electoral division of Nelson (Tasmania), Nelson and Electoral division of Pembroke, Pembroke. Montgomery and Nelson were previously 2013 Tasmanian Legislative Council periodic election, contested in 2013. Pembroke was won by the Australian Labor Party (Tasmanian Branch), Labor Party in a 2017 Pembroke state by-election, 2017 by-election, following the resignation of the sitting member, Vanessa Goodwin of the Liberal Party of Australia (Tasmanian Division), Liberal Party. Montgomery Electoral division of Montgomery, Montgomery had been held by Leonie Hiscutt of the Liberal Party since the 2013 Tasmanian Legislative Council periodic election, 2013 election. Montgomery Results Nelson Electoral division of Nelson (Tasmania), Nelson had been held by independent Jim Wilkinson (Australian politician), Ji ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sue Smith (politician)
Susan Lynette Smith (born 24 January 1951) is an Australian politician who was an independent member of the Tasmanian Legislative Council, representing the electoral division of Montgomery. She was first elected to the division of Leven in 1997 but the seat was abolished in 1999 and she transferred to the newly created seat of Montgomery. She was elected unopposed in 2007 and retired on 4 May 2013. From June 2008 to May 2013 she was President of the Legislative Council, the first woman to hold that office. Smith is married with a grown son and daughter. References External links * , - , - 1951 births Living people Members of the Tasmanian Legislative Council Presidents of the Tasmanian Legislative Council Independent members of the Parliament of Tasmania Members of the Order of Australia People from Ulverstone, Tasmania 20th-century Australian politicians 20th-century Australian women politicians 21st-century Australian politicians 21st-century Australia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2013 Tasmanian Legislative Council Periodic Election
Periodic elections for the Tasmanian Legislative Council were held on 6 May 2013. The three seats up for election were Montgomery, Nelson and Pembroke. Montgomery The electoral division of Montgomery was created in 1999, and was held by independent MLC Sue Smith until her retirement on 4 May 2013. Smith had been re-elected unopposed at the previous periodic election in 2007, so no swings are calculated in the results below. Montgomery Results Nelson The electoral division of Nelson has been held by the independent MLC and Legislative Council President Jim Wilkinson since 1999. Allocation of preferences ceases when one candidate gains more than 50 per cent of the vote. Nelson Results , - style="background-color:#E9E9E9" ! colspan="6" align="left", After transfer of Willink's votes Pembroke The previous election in Pembroke had been a by-election held on 1 August 2009, which was won by Vanessa Goodwin of the Liberal Party ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
City Of Burnie
Burnie City Council (or City of Burnie) is a local government body in Tasmania, located in the city and surrounds of Burnie in the north-west of the state. The Burnie local government area is classified as urban and has a population of 19,348, which also encompasses Cooee, Hampshire, Natone and Ridgley. History and attributes The municipality was established on 6 January 1908. Originally named Emu Bay, the name was changed to Burnie in 1931 following a petition from residents to name the council based on the town it was centred on. Burnie became a city council on 26 April 1988. The city's motto is " non nobis solum" (not for ourselves alone); for many years this was on the council seal but in 1992 a new, more colourful logo was created that did not include the motto. It did also not include the emu (which had been Burnie's unofficial animal emblem). Burnie's floral emblem is the rhododendron. Burnie is classified as urban, regional and small (URS) under the Australian Clas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Central Coast Council (Tasmania)
Central Coast Council is a local government body in Tasmania, situated in the north-west of the state between Burnie and Devonport. Central Coast is classified as an urban local government area and has a population of 22,760, Ulverstone and Penguin are the two primary towns of the region. History and attributes The Central Coast Council was established on 2 April 1993 after the amalgamation of the Penguin and Ulverstone municipalities. Central Coast is classified as urban, regional and small (URS) under the Australian Classification of Local Governments. The municipal boundaries are the Blythe River in the west, Braddons Lookout Road in the east and Black Bluff in the south. The Central Coast includes the tourist destinations Leven Canyon and Black Bluff, as well as a number of rural areas such as Upper Castra. Council Current composition 2022 election results Localities Not in above list * Middlesex See also *List of local government areas of Tasmania Cou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
