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Wilmot
Australian House of Representatives DivisionCreated: 1903 Abolished: 1984 Namesake: John Eardley-Wilmot The Division of Wilmot was an Australian Electoral Division in the state of Tasmania. It was located in central Tasmania, and was named after Sir John Eardley-Wilmot, the sixth Lieutenant-Governor of Tasmania. At various times it included the towns of Deloraine, Beaconsfield, Devonport, Latrobe and New Norfolk.
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, in order to jointly honour Joseph Lyons, the fourteenth Prime Minister of Australia, who held Wilmot from 1929–1939, and his wife Dame Enid Lyons, the first woman elected to the Australian House of Representatives in 1943 and subsequently the first female member of Cabinet (1949–51).
Members
Member Party Term Edward Braddon Free Trade 1903–1904 Norman Cameron Free Trade 1904–1906 Independent 1906–1906 Llewellyn Atkinson Anti-Socialist 1906–1909 Commonwealth Liberal 1909–1916 Nationalist 1916–1921 Country 1921–1928 Nationalist 1928–1929 Joseph Lyons Labor 1929–1931 United Australia 1931–1939 Lancelot Spurr Labor 1939–1940 Allan Guy United Australia 1940–1946 Gil Duthie Labor 1946–1975 Max Burr Liberal 1975–1984 Election results
Main article: Electoral results for the Division of WilmotElectoral Divisions of the Australian House of Representatives in Tasmania Divisions in: New South Wales · Victoria · Queensland · Western Australia · South Australia · Tasmania · Australian Capital and Northern TerritoriesCategories:- Electoral divisions of Australia
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