The Electoral district of Monmouth 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 was based in the rural hinterland to the north of the state capital,
Hobart
Hobart ( ; Nuennonne/Palawa kani: ''nipaluna'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian island state of Tasmania. Home to almost half of all Tasmanians, it is the least-populated Australian state capital city, and second-small ...
.
The seat was created in a redistribution ahead of the
1903 state election out of the former seats of
Brighton
Brighton () is a seaside resort and one of the two main areas of the City of Brighton and Hove in the county of East Sussex, England. It is located south of London.
Archaeological evidence of settlement in the area dates back to the Bronze A ...
and
Richmond
Richmond most often refers to:
* Richmond, Virginia, the capital of Virginia, United States
* Richmond, London, a part of London
* Richmond, North Yorkshire, a town in England
* Richmond, British Columbia, a city in Canada
* Richmond, California, ...
, and was abolished when the Tasmanian parliament adopted the
Hare-Clark electoral model in 1909. It had a single member during its existence,
Thomas Hodgman
Thomas Christopher Hodgman (7 June 1853 – 12 December 1930) was an Australian politician.
He was born in Broadstairs in Kent. In 1900 he was elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly as the member for Brighton, transferring to Monmouth ...
.
Members for Monmouth
See also
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Monmouth Land District
Monmouth Land District is one of the twenty land districts of Tasmania which are part of the cadastral divisions of Tasmania. It was formerly one of the 18 counties of Tasmania. It is bordered by the River Derwent to the south, the Clyde Ri ...
References
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* Parliament of Tasmania (2006)
The Parliament of Tasmania from 1956
Monmouth
Monmouth ( , ; cy, Trefynwy meaning "town on the Monnow") is a town and community in Wales. It is situated where the River Monnow joins the River Wye, from the Wales–England border. Monmouth is northeast of Cardiff, and west of London. I ...
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