Division of Tasmania

The Division of Tasmania was an Australian electoral division covering Tasmania. The five-member statewide seat existed from the inaugural 1901 election until the 1903 election. Each elector cast one vote. Unlike most of the other states, Tasmania had not been split into individual single-member electorates. The other exception was the seven-member Division of South Australia. The statewide seats were abolished at a redistribution conducted two months prior to the 1903 election and were subsequently replaced with single-member divisions, one per displaced member, with each elector now casting a single vote.[1]

Tasmania
Australian House of Representatives Division
Created1901
Abolished1903
NamesakeTasmania

Members

Sorted in order of votes received

Image Member Party Term Notes
  Sir Edward Braddon
(1829–1904)		 Free Trade 29 March 1901 –
16 December 1903		 Previously held the Tasmanian House of Assembly seat of West Devon. Transferred to the Division of Wilmot when Tasmania was abolished in 1903
  King O'Malley
(1854–1953)		 Independent Labour 29 March 1901 –
June 1901		 Previously held the South Australian House of Assembly seat of Encounter Bay. Transferred to the Division of Darwin when Tasmania was abolished in 1903
  Labour June 1901 –
16 December 1903
  Norman Cameron
(1851–1931)		 Free Trade 29 March 1901 –
16 December 1903		 Failed to win the Division of Denison when Tasmania was abolished in 1903. Later elected to the Division of Wilmot in 1904
  Frederick Piesse
(1858–1902)		 Free Trade 29 March 1901 –
6 March 1902		 Previously held the Tasmanian Legislative Council seat of Buckingham. Died in office
  Sir Philip Fysh
(1835–1919)		 Protectionist 29 March 1901 –
16 December 1903		 Previously held the Tasmanian House of Assembly seat of Hobart. Served as minister under Barton and Deakin. Transferred to the Division of Denison when Tasmania was abolished in 1903
  William Hartnoll
(1841–1932)		 Free Trade 26 March 1902 –
16 December 1903		 Previously held the Tasmanian House of Assembly seat of Launceston. Failed to win the Division of Bass when Tasmania was abolished in 1903

The Division was split into five single-member seats at the 1903 election – Bass (Storrer, Protectionist), Darwin (O'Malley, Labour), Denison (Fysh, Protectionist), Franklin (McWilliams, Tariff) and Wilmot (Braddon, Free Trade).

Election results
Main article: Electoral results for the Division of Tasmania

Notes
  1. "THE ELECTORAL DIVISION OF TASMANIA". The Daily Telegraph. Launceston, Tas. 17 July 1903. p. 3. Retrieved 29 June 2015 – via National Library of Australia.

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