The Electoral division of Rowallan was one of the 15
Tasmanian Legislative Council
The Tasmanian Legislative Council is the upper house of the Parliament of Tasmania in Australia. It is one of the two chambers of the Parliament, the other being the House of Assembly. Both houses sit in Parliament House in the state capital, H ...
electorates or seats from 1999 to 2008, but it was renamed '
Western Tiers' in 2008 after a redistribution of boundaries.
From 2001, the seat was held by independent member
Greg Hall.
The electorate was created after the 1999 redistribution and includes many towns in northern rural
Tasmania
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. The boundary is 9,987 km² in area.
Rowallan has 21,153 enrolled voters, the lowest of any of the fifteen Legislative Council constituencies.
Many towns are located within Rowallan including:
Deloraine,
Latrobe,
Sheffield
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,
Westbury,
Cressy,
Longford
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,
Carrick,
Bothwell
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Description and history
An ancie ...
,
Frankford,
Bishopsbourne
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,
Port Sorrell,
Waddamana
Waddamana is a rural locality in the local government area (LGA) of Central Highlands in the Central LGA region of Tasmania. The locality is about north of the town of Hamilton. The 2016 census has a population of 4 for the state suburb of Wa ...
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Interlaken
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and part of
Perth
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.
The last election held on 6 May 2006 saw current member
Greg Hall defeat a sole
Tasmanian Greens
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The party ...
opponent, Karen Cassidy with an 81.95% primary vote.
Members
See also
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Electoral division of Western Tiers
The electoral division of Western Tiers was an electorate of the Tasmanian Legislative Council, the division was abolished in 2017. The seat was created in 2008 after a redistribution saw the former Rowallan renamed after the Great Western Tiers ...
References
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Former electoral districts of Tasmania