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Electoral Division Of Meander
The Electoral division of Meander was an electoral division in the Tasmanian Legislative Council of Australia. It existed from 1856 to 1997, when it was renamed Leven. 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 Meander {{DEFAULTSORT:Meander Former electoral districts of Tasmania 1997 disestablishments in Australia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral Division
An electoral district, also known as an election district, legislative district, voting district, constituency, riding, ward, division, or (election) precinct is a subdivision of a larger state (a country, administrative region, or other polity) created to provide its population with representation in the larger state's legislative body. That body, or 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 or multiple members. Generally, only voters (''constituents'') who reside within the district are permitted to vote in an election held there. District representatives may be elected by a first-past-the-post system, a proportional representative system, or another voting method. They may be selected by a direct election under universal suffrage, an indirect election, or another form of suffrage. Terminology The names for electoral districts vary across countries and, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Hope (Australian Politician)
John Hope (23 July 1842 – 12 May 1926) was a Scottish-born Tasmanian politician. He was born in Aberdeen. In 1900 he was elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly as the member for Devonport. He transferred to Kentish in 1903 and in 1909, with the introduction of proportional representation, he was elected as an Anti-Socialist member for the seat of Wilmot. In 1911 he resigned from the House of Assembly to successfully contest the Legislative Council seat of Meander. He served as Chair of Committees from 1921 until his death in Sheffield Sheffield is a city status in the United Kingdom, city in South Yorkshire, England, whose name derives from the River Sheaf which runs through it. The city serves as the administrative centre of the City of Sheffield. It is Historic counties o ... in 1926. References 1842 births 1926 deaths Free Trade Party politicians Independent members of the Parliament of Tasmania Members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly Memb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 Act 1995'' Abolished Divisions * Apsley (1999–2017) *Brighton (1851–1856) *Buckingham (1851–1999) *Cambridge (1856–1946) * Campbell Town (1851–1856) *Cornwall (1851–1856, 1946–1999) *Cumberland (1851–1856) * Emu Bay (1997–1999) *Glamorgan (1855–1856) * Gordon (1899–1999) *Hobart Town (1851–1857) *Jordan (1856–1885) *Leven (1997–1999) *Longford (1853–1885) *Macquarie (1886–1999) *Meander (1856–1997) *Monmouth (1946–1999) * Morven (1855–1856) * Newdegate (1946–1999) * New Norfolk (1851–1856) * North Esk (1855–1901) * Paterson (1999–2008) *Queenborough (1947–1999) *Richmond (1851–1856) *R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reg Hope
Reginald Thomas "Reg" Hope (12 June 1927 – 16 December 2010) was an Independent member of the Tamar and ( from 1982) Meander divisions of the Tasmanian Legislative Council from 1979 to 1997. Hope was born in Sheffield, Tasmania. He served as President of the Tasmanian Legislative Council from 1995 to 1997. The Reg Hope Foreshore Park in Devonport, Tasmania is named in his honour. Hope died on 16 December 2010. At his death, Premier David Bartlett noted that he was "decent, honest, straightforward and committed to helping Tasmanians," while Don Wing Donald George Wing (born 27 April 1938) is a former Australian politician. A member of the Tasmanian Legislative Council from 1982 to 2011, representing the electoral division of Launceston (briefly named Paterson), he was President of the Tas ... said that he was "gregarious, passionate but above all a gentleman." References 1927 births 2010 deaths Independent members of the Parliament of Tasmania P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeff Coates
Jeffrey Allan Coates (19 November 1925 – 18 June 2016) was an Australian politician. Life and career Coates was born in Deloraine on 19 November 1925. In 1971 he was elected to the Tasmanian Legislative Council as the independent member for Meander A meander is one of a series of regular sinuous curves in the channel of a river or other watercourse. It is produced as a watercourse erodes the sediments of an outer, concave bank ( cut bank) and deposits sediments on an inner, convex bank .... He transferred to Tamar in 1982, and retired from politics in 1989. Coates died on 18 June 2016, at the age of 90. References 1925 births 2016 deaths Independent members of the Parliament of Tasmania Members of the Tasmanian Legislative Council People from Deloraine, Tasmania {{Australia-Independent-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Best (politician)
Charles Robinson Best (14 June 1909 – 24 May 1996) was an Australian politician. He was born in Longford, the son of politician Percy Best. In 1950 he was elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly as a Liberal member for Wilmot. He held the seat until 1958, when he resigned to run for the Legislative Council seat of Meander as an independent Independent or Independents may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Artist groups * Independents (artist group), a group of modernist painters based in the New Hope, Pennsylvania, area of the United States during the early 1930s * Independ .... He won, and held the seat until his defeat in 1971. He died in 1996 in Deloraine. References 1909 births 1996 deaths Liberal Party of Australia members of the Parliament of Tasmania Independent members of the Parliament of Tasmania Members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly Members of the Tasmanian Legislative Council 20th-century Australian politicians People from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elliot Lillico
Alexander Elliot Davidson Lillico (5 September 1905 – 1 November 1994) was an Australian politician. He was an independent member of the Tasmanian Legislative Council for the seat of Meander from 1943 to 1958 and a Liberal Party of Australia member of the Australian Senate from 1958 to 1974. Early life Lillico was born in Penguin, Tasmania, the son of state MP Alexander Lillico, and educated at Don State School and Devonport High School, with two terms boarding at Scotch College, Melbourne. He began farming after leaving school and acquired property at Wilmot. He was a member of the Kentish Council from 1934 until 1960 and became its youngest ever warden in 1936 at the age of 30. Politics In 1943 he was elected to the Tasmanian Legislative Council for Meander. In 1958, he left the Assembly to successfully contest the Australian Senate as a Liberal candidate for Tasmania. He retired in 1974. Lillico died in 1994. Personal life Lillico married Gladys Mayo in 1928, with who ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Percy Best
Percival Clarence Best (21 March 1873 – 14 April 1943) was an Australian politician. Born in Westbury, Tasmania, he was elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly for Wilmot in 1928, representing the Nationalist Party. Defeated in 1931, he returned to politics in 1935 as the Independent member for the Legislative Council seat of Meander A meander is one of a series of regular sinuous curves in the channel of a river or other watercourse. It is produced as a watercourse erodes the sediments of an outer, concave bank ( cut bank) and deposits sediments on an inner, convex ba ..., which he held until his death in Hobart in 1943. His son Charles was also an MLC from 1958 to 1971. References 1873 births 1943 deaths People from Westbury, Tasmania Nationalist Party of Australia members of the Parliament of Tasmania Independent members of the Parliament of Tasmania Members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly Members of the Tasmanian Legislative Council ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hubert Nichols
Hubert Allan Nichols (26 July 1864 – 21 August 1940) was an Australian politician. He was born at Macquarie Plains, Tasmania. In 1902 he was elected to the Tasmanian Legislative Council as the Independent member for Mersey, leading the Opposition group in the Council from May 1906 to January 1909. In 1924 he was defeated, but he was elected to Meander A meander is one of a series of regular sinuous curves in the channel of a river or other watercourse. It is produced as a watercourse erodes the sediments of an outer, concave bank ( cut bank) and deposits sediments on an inner, convex ba ... in 1926, serving until 1935. Nichols died in 1940 in Ulverstone. References 1864 births 1940 deaths Independent members of the Parliament of Tasmania Members of the Tasmanian Legislative Council 20th-century Australian politicians {{Australia-Independent-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederick Grubb (politician)
Frederick William Grubb (16 October 1844 – 28 April 1923) was an Australian politician. He was born in Launceston, the eldest son of William Dawson Grubb. In 1879 he was elected to the Tasmanian Legislative Council as the member for Tamar, replacing the previous member—his father—who had died. In 1880 his seat was declared vacant due to absence. In 1881 he returned to the Council as the member for Meander A meander is one of a series of regular sinuous curves in the channel of a river or other watercourse. It is produced as a watercourse erodes the sediments of an outer, concave bank ( cut bank) and deposits sediments on an inner, convex bank ..., the seat he represented until his retirement in 1911. Grubb died in Launceston in 1923. References 1844 births 1923 deaths Colony of Tasmania people Independent members of the Parliament of Tasmania Members of the Tasmanian Legislative Council 19th-century Australian politicians 20th-century Aus ... [...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 stat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Field (Australian Politician)
Thomas Field may refer to: * Thomas Field (Anglican priest, born 1829) (1829–1899), "Canon Field", Anglican priest in South Australia * Thomas Field (Anglican priest, born 1855) (1855–1936), Church of England priest * Thomas Field (Catholic priest) (1546–1625), Irish Jesuit priest and explorer * Thomas Field (politician) (1859–1937), New Zealand politician of the Reform Party * Tom Field (born 1997), Anglo-Irish footballer *Tommy Field Thomas Samuel Field (born February 22, 1987) is an American former professional baseball infielder. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Colorado Rockies, Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, and Texas Rangers. Professional career Colorad ... (born 1987), American baseball shortstop See also * Tom Fields (born 1992), Australian rules footballer * Tom Fields (artist) (born 1951), Muscogee Creek/Cherokee photographer from Oklahoma * Thomas C. Fields (1825–1885), New York politician * {{hndis, Field, Thomas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
