The Division of Wilmot was an
Australian Electoral Division in the
state
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. It was located in central Tasmania, and was named after
Sir John Eardley-Wilmot, the sixth
Lieutenant-Governor of Tasmania
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. At various times it included the towns of
Deloraine,
Beaconsfield,
Devonport,
Latrobe, and
New Norfolk
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.
The Division was proclaimed on 2 October 1903, when Tasmania was first divided into Divisions, and was first contested at the
1903 Federal election. At the electoral redistribution of 12 September 1984, it was abolished and replaced by the
Division of Lyons, to jointly honour
Joseph Lyons
Joseph Aloysius Lyons (15 September 1879 – 7 April 1939) was an Australian politician who served as the 10th Prime Minister of Australia, in office from 1932 until his death in 1939. He began his career in the Australian Labor Party (ALP), ...
, the tenth
Prime Minister of Australia, who held Wilmot at the federal level from 1929–1939 and at the state level from 1909 to 1929, and his wife Dame
Enid Lyons
Dame Enid Muriel Lyons (née Burnell; 9 July 1897 – 2 September 1981) was an Australian politician who was the first woman elected to the House of Representatives and the first woman to serve in federal cabinet. Prior to her own political ca ...
, the first woman elected to the
Australian House of Representatives
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in 1943 and subsequently the first female member of Cabinet (1949–51).
Members
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Wilmot Wilmot may refer to:
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*Division of Wilmot, an abolished Australian Electoral Division in Tasmania
* Wilmot, Tasmania, a locality in the North-West Region
Canada
*Wilmot, Nova Scotia, an unincorporated rural community and former t ...