The Electoral district of Zeehan 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 in the mining town of
Zeehan
Zeehan is a town on the west coast of Tasmania, Australia south-west of Burnie. It is part of the West Coast Council, along with the seaport Strahan, and neighbouring mining towns of Dundas, Rosebery and Queenstown.
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The seat was created in a redistribution ahead of the
1900 election out of
Lyell, and was abolished when the Tasmanian parliament adopted the
Hare–Clark electoral system
Hare-Clark is a type of single transferable vote electoral system of proportional representation used for elections in Tasmania and the Australian Capital Territory. The method for the distribution of preferences is similar to other voting systems ...
in 1909. Its final member,
James Ogden
James Ernest Ogden (8 March 1868 – 5 February 1932) was an Australian politician who was elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly and the Australian Senate.
Early life
Ogden was born at Durdidwarrah, near Geelong, Victoria and educated at ...
, successfully stood for the multi-member seat of
Darwin (now known as Braddon) and retained political office for 13 years.
Members for Zeehan
References
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* Parliament of Tasmania (2006)
The Parliament of Tasmania from 1956
Zeehan
Zeehan is a town on the west coast of Tasmania, Australia south-west of Burnie. It is part of the West Coast Council, along with the seaport Strahan, and neighbouring mining towns of Dundas, Rosebery and Queenstown.
History
The greater ...
Zeehan
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