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Electoral district of George Town

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The Electoral district of George Town was a single-member electoral district of the Tasmanian House of Assembly. It was centred on the town of George Town in Tasmania's Tamar Valley region north of Launceston.

The seat was created ahead of the Assembly's first election held in 1856, and was abolished when the Tasmanian parliament adopted the Hare-Clark electoral model in 1909.

Members for George Town

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Member Term
Charles Henty 1856–1862
Thomas Knight 1862–1865
John Scott 1865–1866
William Barnes 1866–1869
James Scott 1869–1877
George Gilmore 1877–1879
Audley Coote 1879–1886
Harry Conway 1886–1893
George Crosby Gilmore 1893–1900
Thomas Walduck 1900–1903
Jens Jensen 1903–1909

References

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  • 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