The electoral district of West Devon 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 region surrounding the northern coastal town of
Devonport.
The seat was created in a redistribution ahead of the
1871 election from part of the
Devon
Devon ( , historically known as Devonshire , ) is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in South West England. The most populous settlement in Devon is the city of Plymouth, followed by Devon's county town, the city of Exeter. Devon is ...
electorate, and was abolished when the Tasmanian parliament adopted the
Hare-Clark electoral model in 1909.
Members for West Devon
References
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* Parliament of Tasmania (2006)
The Parliament of Tasmania from 1956
Devon West
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