The electoral district of Oatlands 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 ...
. Its population centre was the town of
Oatlands to the north of
Hobart.
The seat was created ahead of the Assembly's first
election held in 1856, and was abolished at the
1903 election, when it was merged with the neighbouring seats of
Campbell Town
Campbell Town is a town in Tasmania, Australia, on the Midland Highway. At the 2021 census, the town had a population of 823.
History
Traditional owners of the Campbell Town area
The traditional custodians of the Campbell Town area were t ...
and the northern part of
Glamorgan into the new district of
Cambria
Cambria is a name for Wales, being the Latinised form of the Welsh name for the country, . The term was not in use during the Roman period (when Wales had not come into existence as a distinct entity). It emerged later, in the medieval period, ...
.
Members for Oatlands
References
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* Parliament of Tasmania (2006)
The Parliament of Tasmania from 1956
Oatlands
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