The Electoral district of Longford 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

Longford Longford () is the county town of County Longford in Ireland. It has a population of 10,008 according to the 2016 census. It is the biggest town in the county and about one third of the county's population lives there. Longford lies at the meet ...

near

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's second city, Launceston. The seat was created in a redistribution ahead of the 1886 election, largely replacing the seat of

Norfolk Plains Longford is a town in the northern midlands of Tasmania, Australia. It lies 145 m above sea level at the convergence of the Macquarie River and the South Esk River, 21 km south of Launceston and a 15-minute drive from the airport. It ...

, and was abolished when the Tasmanian parliament adopted the Hare-Clark electoral model in 1909.

Members for Longford

References

* * * Parliament of Tasmania (2006)
The Parliament of Tasmania from 1956

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