Electoral district of Lyell
The Electoral district of Lyell was a single-member electoral district of the Tasmanian House of Assembly. It included the towns of Queenstown and Strahan in the West Coast region of Tasmania.
The seat was created in a redistribution in 1899, and was abolished when the Tasmanian parliament adopted the Hare-Clark electoral model in 1909. It was first filled at a by-election on 10 April 1899, notable for being the first occasion on which the Labor Party contested a Tasmanian seat. Its candidate, R. Matthews, gained 40% of the votes [1]
In 1903, Labor's James Long won the seat.[2] At the 1909 election he successfully transferred to the multi-member seat of Darwin (now known as Braddon), but resigned the following year to successfully contest an Australian Senate seat.
Members for Lyell
| Member | Party | Term | |
|---|---|---|---|
| James Gaffney | Liberal | 1899–1903 | |
| James Long | Labour | 1903–1909 | |
Notes
- ↑ "POLITICAL.". Launceston Examiner (Tas. : 1842 - 1899). Tas.: National Library of Australia. 19 April 1899. p. 7. Retrieved 28 June 2015..
- ↑ "Election Campaign.". Zeehan and Dundas Herald (Tas. : 1890 - 1922). Tas.: National Library of Australia. 18 March 1903. p. 3. Retrieved 28 June 2015.
References
- Newman, Terry (1994). Representation of the Tasmanian People. Tasmanian Parliamentary Library. ISBN 0-7246-4147-5.
- Hughes, Colin A.; Graham, B. D. (1976). Voting for the South Australian, Western Australian and Tasmanian Lower Houses, 1890-1964. Canberra: Australian National University. ISBN 0-7081-1334-6.
- Parliament of Tasmania (2006). The Parliament of Tasmania from 1956