The electoral division of McIntyre is one of the fifteen electorates in the
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 ...
, it includes
Flinders Island
Flinders Island, the largest island in the Furneaux Group, is a island in the Bass Strait, northeast of the island of Tasmania. Flinders Island was the place where the last remnants of aboriginal Tasmanian population were exiled by the colon ...
, the northern east coast of
Tasmania
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, and regional areas south and west of
Launceston. It is named after
Margaret McIntyre
Margaret Edgeworth David McIntyre, (28 November 1886 – 2 September 1948) was the first woman elected to the Parliament of Tasmania, representing the seat of Cornwall in the Legislative Council.
Life and career
McIntyre was born in Maitla ...
, who was the first woman to be elected into the
Parliament of Tasmania
The Parliament of Tasmania is the bicameral legislature of the Australian state of Tasmania. It follows a Westminster-derived parliamentary system and consists of the Governor of Tasmania, the Tasmanian House of Assembly (the lower house), and T ...
in 1948.
There were temporarily two representatives for the single-member division of McIntyre until 2018. The next scheduled periodic election will be held in 2022.
History and electoral profile
The division was created following the 2016–17 Legislative Council redistribution process. The new name of McIntyre was adopted to avoid confusion because of the significant changes made to the electoral boundaries in the region.
McIntyre includes all of the
Flinders
Flinders may refer to:
Places Antarctica
* Flinders Peak, near the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula
Australia New South Wales
* Flinders County, New South Wales
* Shellharbour Junction railway station, Shellharbour
* Flinders, New South Wa ...
,
Dorset
Dorset ( ; archaically: Dorsetshire , ) is a county in South West England on the English Channel coast. The ceremonial county comprises the unitary authority areas of Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole and Dorset (unitary authority), Dors ...
,
Break O'Day municipal areas and part of
Kentish,
Meander Valley
Meander Valley Council is a local government body in northern Tasmania. It covers the western outskirts of Launceston, and further westward along the Meander River. Meander Valley Council is classified as a rural local government area and h ...
and
Northern Midlands
Northern Midlands Council is a local government body in Tasmania, extending south of Launceston into the northern region of the Tasmanian central midlands. Northern Midlands is classified as a rural local government area and has a populatio ...
municipal areas.
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Members
As a result of the changes made following the 2016–17 Legislative Council redistribution process, the single-seat electorate of McIntyre was temporarily assigned two MLCs, Greg Hall and Tania Rattray
Tania Verene Rattray (born 28 March 1958) is an independent member of the Tasmanian Legislative Council (upper house) in the division of McIntyre.
Rattray was educated at Winnaleah Area School and Scottsdale High School. Before becoming a f ...
, until the expiration of Hall's term in 2018. The expiration of Hall's term coincided with the 2018 periodic elections where a member for the new division of Prosser Prosser may refer to:
__NOTOC__ Places
;United States
* Prosser, California, a former settlement
* Prosser Creek, California
* Prosser, Nebraska, a village
* Prosser, Washington, a city
;Australia
* Electoral division of Prosser, Tasmania
* Prosser ...
was elected.
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 ...
* Electoral division of Apsley
The electoral division of Apsley was an electorate of the Tasmanian Legislative Council, it was created in 1999 and abolished in 2017.
The total area of the division was . As of 31 January 2015, there were 23,424 enrolled voters in the division. ...
(former electorate)
* Electoral division of Western Tiers (former electorate)
References
External links
Parliament of Tasmania
{{East Coast Tasmania
McIntyre