The electoral division of Murchison is one of the fifteen electorates in the
Tasmanian Legislative Council
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, situated in the
western
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north-west
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region of the
state
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. It is the largest electorate in size, covering an area of 19,391 km² and includes the
municipalities
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of
Circular Head
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,
King Island,
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and part of
Burnie City.
Ruth Forrest
Ruth Jane Forrest (born 4 March 1962 in Burnie) is an independent member of the Tasmanian Legislative Council in the electoral division of Murchison.
Forrest was first elected in May 2005. Following her first six-year term, she was the only ca ...
has been the sitting member for Murchison since 2005, she ran unopposed in 2011, and was re-elected in May 2017. The next scheduled election is in 2023. As of January 2019, there were 27,059 enrolled voters.
[Legislative Council Divisional Enrolment as at 31 January 2019]
Tasmanian Legislative Council, 6 February 2019.
History
The seat of Murchison was created in the redistribution of 1999, and largely replaced the west coast seat of Russell, which had existed since 1885.
The electorate is named after
Mount Murchison near
Rosebery and the
Murchison River (Tasmania)
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Course and features
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which flows through the region.
Members
The elected members for the seat of Murchison have all sat as
independents, including those for the former seat of Russell.
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See also
* 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 ...
References
External links
Parliament of Tasmania
{{Western Tasmania , state=autocollapse
Murchison
Western Tasmania