The Electoral district of Latrobe 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.
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. It was based at
Latrobe on
Tasmania
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's north coast near the town of
Devonport.
The seat was created in a redistribution ahead of the
1897 election out of the former seat of
East Devon
East Devon is a Non-metropolitan district, local government district in Devon, England. Its council has been based in Honiton since February 2019, and the largest town is Exmouth (with a population of 34,432 at the time of the 2011 census).
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, and was abolished when the Tasmanian parliament adopted the
Hare-Clark electoral model in 1909. The circumstances of its first by-election were initiated when the member for neighbouring
Devonport,
John Henry, resigned. At the resulting by-election on 21 June 1898, Ministerial candidate
William Aikenhead was elected. However, the election was declared void. In October 1898, the Ministerial member for Latrobe,
Henry Murray
Henry Alexander Murray (May 13, 1893 – June 23, 1988) was an American psychologist at Harvard University, where from 1959 to 1962 he conducted a series of psychologically damaging and purposefully abusive experiments on minors and underg ...
, resigned to contest the resulting Devonport by-election (held on 25 October 1898), whilst Aikenhead contested the now-vacant seat of Latrobe at a by-election on 15 October 1898. Both were successful. On 25 April 1902, Murray resumed the seat after Aikenhead's death.
Members for Latrobe
References
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* Parliament of Tasmania (2006)
The Parliament of Tasmania from 1956
Latrobe
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