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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 Part ... [...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 the Parliament, the other being the House of Assembly. Both houses sit in 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 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 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. The Tasmanian Legislative Council is a unique parliamentary chamber in Australian politics in that historically it is the only chamber in any sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral Division Of Montgomery
The electoral division of Montgomery is one of the fifteen electorates in the Tasmanian Legislative Council. It is centred on the Central Coast area and includes the localities of; Ulverstone, Penguin, Heybridge, Hampshire and West Pine. The electorate also includes most of the City of Burnie. Acton, Hillcrest, Montello, Brooklyn, Romaine, South Burnie and Upper Burnie are part of this electoral division. However Somerset, Parklands, Park grove and Shorewell are located in the Electoral division of Murchison. The division shares its western borders with the Burnie Municipal Council. , Montgomery had 27,913 enrolled voters and covers an area of 2,457 km². The electorate is represented by Leonie Hiscutt, who was elected at the last election held in 2013. The most recent periodic election was held on 4 May 2019. Members See also * Tasmanian House of Assembly The House of Assembly, or Lower House, is one of the two chambers of the Parliament of Tasmania in ... [...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 2019, when independent candidate Meg Webb was elected. Members See also * Tasmanian House of Assembly References External linksParliament of Tasmania {{Southern Tasmania , state=autocollapse Nelson
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Electoral Division Of Pembroke
The electoral division of Pembroke is one of the 15 electorates or 'seats' in the Tasmanian Legislative Council or upper house. It is located on Hobart's Eastern Shore (east side of the Derwent River) and includes a number of suburbs; Risdon Vale, Geilston Bay, Rose Bay, Lindisfarne, Warrane, Mornington, Bellerive, Howrah and Tranmere. In earlier times, the division included most of the east coast of Tasmania as far north as Bicheno, including the Tasman Peninsula. The electorate takes its name from a county which was created in Tasmania by early British settlers. The division and the former county both took their name from Pembrokeshire in Wales. Members See also * Pembroke Land District * 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 Legislative Council or Upper House. It sits in Parliament House in the state capital, Hobart. The Assembly has 25 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sue Smith (politician)
Susan Lynette Smith (born 24 January 1951 in Ulverstone, Tasmania) was an independent member of the 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 the Parliament, the other being the House of Assembly. Both houses sit in Parliament House in the state capital, ... in 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 membe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2007 Tasmanian Legislative Council Periodic Election
Periodic elections for the Tasmanian Legislative Council were held on 6 May 2007. The three seats up for election were Montgomery, held by independent MLC Sue Smith; Nelson, held by independent MLC Jim Wilkinson; and Pembroke, held by Labor MLC Allison Ritchie. Montgomery was last contested in 2002, while Nelson and Pembroke were last contested in 2001. Montgomery Independent MLC Sue Smith was elected to the Council for the seat of Leven in 1997, and successfully transferred to the new seat of Montgomery in 2002. She was not opposed in this election. Montgomery Results Nelson Independent MLC Jim Wilkinson first entered the Council as the member for Queenborough in 1995, successfully transferring to Nelson in 2001. His only opponent was Tom Nilsson of the Tasmanian Greens, an anti-population-growth activist. Nelson Results Pembroke Labor MLC Allison Ritchie had held Pembroke since defeating independent member Cathy Edwards in 2001, in a resul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leonie Hiscutt
Leonie Anne Hiscutt (born 14 January 1959) is an Australian politician, who has been a member of the Tasmanian Legislative Council for the division of Montgomery since 2013. Hiscutt was a farmer and businesswoman prior to entering Parliament. She grew up in Elliott (near Yolla) and currently lives in Howth (near Penguin Penguins (order Sphenisciformes , family Spheniscidae ) are a group of aquatic flightless birds. They live almost exclusively in the Southern Hemisphere: only one species, the Galápagos penguin, is found north of the Equator. Highly adap ...). Her husband's uncles, Des Hiscutt and Hugh Hiscutt were both previously members of the Tasmanian parliament. References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Hiscutt, Leonie Living people Members of the Tasmanian Legislative Council Liberal Party of Australia members of the Parliament of Tasmania 1959 births 21st-century Australian politicians 21st-century Australian women politicians Women memb ... [...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 ) , nickname = , image_map = Tasmania in Australia.svg , map_caption = Lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vanessa Goodwin
Vanessa Goodwin (22 April 1969 – 3 March 2018) was an Australian politician. She was the Liberal Party member for the seat of Pembroke in the Tasmanian Legislative Council from the Pembroke by-election on 1 August 2009 until her resignation due to brain cancer on 2 October 2017. Early life Goodwin was born in Hobart, Tasmania.Biographical details ''Parliament of Tasmania'' She received a Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws from the , a (Criminology) from the |
Liberal Party Of Australia (Tasmanian Division)
The Liberal Party of Australia (Tasmanian Division), commonly known as the Tasmanian Liberals, is the state division of the Liberal Party of Australia in Tasmania. The party currently governs in Tasmania. The party is part of the federal Liberal Party of Australia which governs nationally in Coalition with the National Party of Australia. History In 1904, Elliott Lewis established the National League, which changed its name to the Progressive League in 1907. While Lewis became Premier of the state in 1909 under this banner, the League itself shortly disappeared. Its successor was the Tasmanian Liberal League, founded later that year in collaboration with the Tasmanian Farmers and Stockowners Association. In 1917, the League affiliated with the Australian Liberal Union. Following the removal of Billy Hughes from the leadership of the Labor Party, the League merged again to become the Tasmanian National Federation. It shared government with the Labor Party from 1912 to 192 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allison Ritchie
Allison Maree Ritchie (born 28 July 1974 in Hobart) was a member of the Tasmanian Legislative Council (upper house) for Pembroke from 2001 to 2009. Since 2022, Ritchie has served as Deputy Mayor of the City of Clarence. Life before Parliament Ritchie grew up on Hobart's Eastern Shore and attended Mornington Primary School, Clarence High School, Rosny College and the University of Tasmania. Coming form a family with strong political connections (an aunt, Carol Brown, is a federal senator and a great uncle was a state president of the ALP) Ritchie joined the Labor Party at age 14. From 1993 to 1996 Ritchie worked as a manager for a private information technology company. From 1996 to 2001 Ritchie was employed as the Executive Assistant to the State Secretary of the Tasmanian Branch of the Australian Labor Party. Ritchie held many positions within the Party, including Branch Secretary, Platform Committee Member, Administrative Committee Member and Southern Convenor of the Labo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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