The Electoral district of Glamorgan was a single-member electoral district of the
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 m ...
. It centred on the town of
Swansea in eastern
Tasmania
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Bicheno
Bicheno is a locality and town on the east coast of Tasmania, Australia, 185 km north-east of Hobart on the Tasman Highway, with a population of around 950. It is part of the municipality of Glamorgan-Spring Bay. The town is primarily a fi ...
,
Little Swanport and the
Freycinet Peninsula. After 1886, the seat extended as far south as
Triabunna
Triabunna is a rural residential locality in the local government area (LGA) of Glamorgan–Spring Bay in the South-east LGA region of Tasmania. The locality is about north-east of the city of Hobart. The has a population of 905 for the state ...
and
Buckland, which had previously been in neighbouring
Sorell.
The seat was created ahead of the Assembly's first
election held in 1856, and was abolished at the
1903 election, when it was abolished and divided between
Cambria
Cambria is a name for Wales, being the Latinised form of the Welsh name for the country, . The term was not in use during the Roman period (when Wales had not come into existence as a distinct entity). It emerged later, in the medieval period, ...
to the north, and
Sorell to the south.
Members for Glamorgan
References
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* Parliament of Tasmania (2006)
The Parliament of Tasmania from 1956
Glamorgan
1856 establishments in Australia
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