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Electoral Division Of Queenborough
The Electoral division of Queenborough was an electoral division in the Tasmanian Legislative Council of Australia. It existed from 1946, when the seat of Hobart was changed from three members to one, to 1999, when it was renamed Nelson. Members See also *Tasmanian Legislative Council electoral divisions The Tasmanian Legislative Council has fifteen single member constituencies, called divisions. Current divisions The fifteen Tasmanian Legislative Council divisions as of the 2016-17 redistribution are:''Legislative Council Electoral Boundaries A ... ReferencesPast election results for Queenborough {{DEFAULTSORT:Queenborough Former electoral districts of Tasmania 1999 disestablishments in Australia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral Division
An electoral (congressional, legislative, etc.) district, sometimes called a constituency, riding, or ward, is a geographical portion of a political unit, such as a country, state or province, city, or administrative region, created to provide the voters therein with representation in a legislature or other polity. That legislative body, the state's constitution, or a body established for that purpose determines each district's boundaries and whether each will be represented by a Single-member district, single member or multiple members. Generally, only voters (''constituents'') who Residency (domicile), reside within the district are permitted to vote in an election held there. The district representative or representatives may be elected by single-winner first past the post, first-past-the-post system, a multi-winner Proportional representation, proportional representative system, or another voting system, voting method. The district members may be selected by a direct elec ... [...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] |
Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising mainland Australia, the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and list of islands of Australia, numerous smaller islands. It has a total area of , making it the list of countries and dependencies by area, sixth-largest country in the world and the largest in Oceania. Australia is the world's flattest and driest inhabited continent. It is a megadiverse countries, megadiverse country, and its size gives it a wide variety of landscapes and Climate of Australia, climates including deserts of Australia, deserts in the Outback, interior and forests of Australia, tropical rainforests along the Eastern states of Australia, coast. The ancestors of Aboriginal Australians began arriving from south-east Asia 50,000 to 65,000 years ago, during the Last Glacial Period, last glacial period. By the time of British settlement, Aboriginal Australians spoke 250 distinct l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral Division Of Hobart
The electoral division of Hobart is one of the 15 electoral divisions in the Tasmanian Legislative Council. It was originally created in 1856 when the Council became the upper house of the Parliament of Tasmania. The seat was abolished in 1999 and re-created in 2008 after a redistribution saw the former division of Wellington returned to its former name. The total area of the division is , which covers the Hobart city centre and the suburbs of Battery Point, Dynnyrne, Fern Tree, Glebe, Lenah Valley, Mount Stuart, New Town, North Hobart, Ridgeway, South Hobart, and West Hobart. As of 31 January 2019, there were 24,007 enrolled electors in the division.Legislative Council Divisional Enrolment as at 31 January 2019 Tas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral Division Of Nelson (Tasmania)
The electoral division of Nelson is a constituency of the Tasmanian Legislative Council. The division includes many of the suburbs to the south of Hobart, including South Hobart, Sandy Bay, Taroona and Kingston. The division was created in 1999 when the electoral division of Queenborough was renamed in a review of electoral boundaries. The member from 1999 until his retirement in 2019 was independent Jim Wilkinson. The most recent election was in May 2025, when independent incumbent Meg Webb was re-elected. Members Election results References External links Parliament of Tasmania {{Southern Tasmania , state=autocollapse Nelson
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William Strutt (politician)
William Henry Strutt (6 March 1878 – 5 March 1948) was an Australian politician. He was born in Melbourne. In 1938 he was elected to the Tasmanian Legislative Council as an independent member for Hobart. In 1946 the seat, which had had three members, was divided and Strutt was assigned the seat of Queenborough. Appointed Chair of Committees in 1946, he died in Hobart Hobart ( ) is the capital and most populous city of the island state of Tasmania, Australia. Located in Tasmania's south-east on the estuary of the River Derwent, it is the southernmost capital city in Australia. Despite containing nearly hal ... in 1948. References 1878 births 1948 deaths Independent members of the Parliament of Tasmania Members of the Tasmanian Legislative Council Politicians from Melbourne {{Australia-Independent-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Independent (politician)
An independent politician or non-affiliated politician is a politician not affiliated with any political party or bureaucratic association. There are numerous reasons why someone may stand for office as an independent. Some politicians have political views that do not align with the platforms of any political party and therefore they choose not to affiliate with them. Some independent politicians may be associated with a party, perhaps as former members of it or else have views that align with it, but choose not to stand in its name, or are unable to do so because the party in question has selected another candidate. Others may belong to or support a political party at the national level but believe they should not formally represent it (and thus be subject to its policies) at another level. In some cases, a politician may be a member of an unregistered party and therefore officially recognised as an independent. Officeholders may become independents after losing or repudiating a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Baker (Australian Politician)
Sir Henry Seymour Baker (1 September 1890 – 20 July 1968) was an Australian politician and lawyer. He served in the Parliament of Tasmania for nearly 40 years, initially as a Nationalist and Liberal in the House of Assembly (1928–1946) where he spent periods as attorney-general (1928–1934) and leader of the opposition (1936–1946). He later served in the Legislative Council (1948–1968), including as president (1959–1968). He was born in England and spent most of his childhood in New Zealand, arriving in Australia as a teenager. Early life Baker was born on 1 September 1890 in Liverpool, England. He was the son of Lydia Charlotte (née Lee) and Sidney James Baker; his father was a Congregationalist minister. Baker and his family moved to New Zealand when he was a child, where he attended Palmerston North Boys' High School. The family moved to Australia in 1907, settling in Launceston, Tasmania. After leaving school he began working as a journalist for the '' D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis Shoobridge Jr
Louis may refer to: People * Louis (given name), origin and several individuals with this name * Louis (surname) * Louis (singer), Serbian singer Other uses * Louis (coin), a French coin * HMS ''Louis'', two ships of the Royal Navy See also * Derived terms * King Louis (other) * Saint Louis (other) * Louis Cruise Lines * Louis dressing, for salad * Louis Quinze, design style Associated terms * Lewis (other) * Louie (other) * Luis (other) * Louise (other) * Louisville (other) Associated names * * Chlodwig, the origin of the name Ludwig, which is translated to English as "Louis" * Ladislav and László - names sometimes erroneously associated with "Louis" * Ludovic, Ludwig, Ludwick, Ludwik Ludwik () is a Polish given name. Notable people with the name include: * Ludwik Czyżewski, Polish WWII general * Ludwik Fleck (1896–1961), Polish medical doctor and biologist * Ludwik Gintel (1899–1973), Polish-Israeli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Hodgman
William Clark Hodgman (14 May 1909 – 3 May 1997) was a Tasmanian politician. He served as a Member of the House of Assembly for Denison from 1955 to 1964 and a Member of the Legislative Council from 1971 to 1983. He was President of the Tasmanian Legislative Council from 1981 to 1983. Originally a Liberal, he became an independent in 1959. William Clark Hodgman was the father of politicians Michael Hodgman and Peter Hodgman, and the grandfather of the 45th Premier of Tasmania and Australian High Commissioner to Singapore, Will Hodgman William Edward Felix Hodgman (born 20 April 1969) is a former Australian politician and diplomat. He was the premier of Tasmania from 2014 to 2020 and state leader of the Liberal Party from 2006 to 2020. He later served as High Commissioner of .... See also * Hodgman family References Australian people of English descent 1909 births 1997 deaths Officers of the Order of the British Empire Liberal Party of Australia m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Stopp
Eric John Chancellor Stopp (10 June 1933 – 19 April 2014) was an Australian politician. He was born on Norfolk Island in 1933 and moved to Tasmania as a boy. He attended The Hutchins School, in Hobart. In 1983 he was elected to the Tasmanian Legislative Council as the independent member for Queenborough Queenborough is a town on the Isle of Sheppey in the Swale borough of Kent in South East England. Queenborough is south of Sheerness. It grew as a port near the Thames Estuary at the westward entrance to the Swale where it joins the River .... He was President of the Council from 1992 to 1995. Stopp retired from politics in 1995. References 1933 births 2014 deaths Independent members of the Parliament of Tasmania Members of the Tasmanian Legislative Council Presidents of the Tasmanian Legislative Council People educated at The Hutchins School {{Australia-Independent-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Wilkinson (Australian Politician)
James Scott Wilkinson (born 4 December 1951) is an Australian former politician and sportsman, who was an independent member of the Tasmanian Legislative Council, representing the Division of Queenborough from 1995, then the Division of Nelson from 1999 when Queenborough was abolished. He was President of the Tasmanian Legislative Council from 2013, until his retirement from the council in May 2019. As a child, Wilkinson lived in Battery Point and later Sandy Bay where he attended Hutchins School. Upon completing his studies, he moved to Melbourne to play for South Melbourne in the VFL between 1970 and 1972. After three years in Melbourne, he then returned to Tasmania to study law, while also continuing with sport playing football and cricket for Sandy Bay. As a result of his efforts he played first-class cricket for Tasmania Tasmania (; palawa kani: ''Lutruwita'') is an island States and territories of Australia, state of Australia. It is located to the south o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
