The Electoral district of Selby 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
Lilydale in
Tasmania
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's northeastern region, and extended into what are today considered
Launceston's outer eastern suburbs.
The seat was created ahead of the Assembly's first
election held in 1856. The east and northeast of the electorate became part of the new seat of
Ringarooma
Ringarooma is a small town in north-eastern Tasmania. It is located just east of the Ringarooma River and is about south-west from Derby and east-northeast from Launceston. The area around Ringarooma is known for Dairy farming and timber harve ...
at the
1886 election. The seat was abolished at the
1903 election, when it merged with the neighbouring seat of
Evandale to form the new seat of
North Esk.
Members for Selby
References
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* Parliament of Tasmania (2006)
The Parliament of Tasmania from 1956
Selby
Selby is a market town and civil parish in the Selby District of North Yorkshire, England, south of York on the River Ouse, with a population at the 2011 census of 14,731.
The town was historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire until ...
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