Division of Denison (state)

This redirect is about the state electorate. For the federal electorate, see Division of Denison.

Denison Tasmania—House of Assembly
Map showing the Division of Denison, as of the 2018 Tasmanian state election.
State	Tasmania
Created	1909
Abolished	2018
Namesake	Sir William Denison
Electors	74,397 (2018)
Area	290 km2 (112.0 sq mi)
Demographic	Inner metropolitan

Division of Denison

The electoral division of Denison was an electorate of the Tasmanian House of Assembly from 1909 to 2018. It was located in Hobart on the western shore of the River Derwent and includes the suburbs below Mount Wellington. Denison was named after Sir William Denison, who was Lieutenant Governor of Van Diemen's Land (1847–55), and Governor of New South Wales (1855–61). The electorate shared its name and boundaries with the federal division of Denison. The seat was abolished in September 2018 and replaced by the Division of Clark, in line with its federal namesake.

Denison was represented by five members elected under the Hare-Clark electoral system.

History and electoral profile

The division was located on the western side of the Derwent River, covering a part of Kingborough and all of the Hobart and Glenorchy local government areas. Covering an area of 290 km² it was the smallest of Tasmania's five electoral divisions.

Members for Denison

Year	Member		Party	Member		Party	Member		Party	Member		Party	Member		Party	Member		Party	Member		Party
1909		Sir John Davies	Anti-Socialist		Sir Elliott Lewis	Anti-Socialist		Frederick Rattle	Anti-Socialist		Walter Woods	Labor		William Sheridan	Labor		Edward Crowther	Anti-Socialist	6 seats (1909–1959)
1912			Liberal			Liberal		Vincent Barker	Labor								Francis Valentine	Liberal
1913														Lyndhurst Giblin	Labor		William Fullerton	Liberal
1914		William Sheridan	Labor
1916								John Cleary	Labor					William Burgess	Liberal
1917						Nationalist					Charles Hoggins	Nationalist		George Foster	Nationalist			Nationalist
1919											Robert Cosgrove	Labor		Robert Snowden	Nationalist		John McPhee	Nationalist
1922					Charles Grant	Nationalist					Charles Culley	Labor
1924														Leslie Payne	Nationalist
1925		Walter Woods	Labor		John Soundy	Nationalist								Robert Cosgrove	Labor
1928								Edmund Dwyer-Gray	Labor		Charles Grant	Nationalist
1931		Ernest Turner	Nationalist											Gerald Mahoney	Labor
1932											Arndell Lewis	Nationalist
1934											George Carruthers	Independent		Robert Cosgrove	Labor		Charles Culley	Labor
1937		Arndell Lewis	Nationalist								Francis Heerey	Labor
1941		Ernest Turner	Nationalist
1941		Charles Atkins	Nationalist								Alfred White	Labor
1945								Francis Heerey	Labor
1946					Robert Harvey	Nationalist
1946			Liberal		Rex Townley	Independent		Horace Strutt	Liberal
1948		Bill Wedd	Independent														Henry Hope	Labor
1950						Liberal											Frank Gaha	Labor
1953		Leo McPartlan	Independent
1955		Bill Hodgman	Liberal
1958														Eric Howroyd	Labor
1959											Bert Lacey	Labor
1959								Sir Archibald Park	Liberal		Bill Wedd	Independent		Charley Aylett	Labor					Harry McLoughlin	Labor
1959			Independent					Horace Strutt	Liberal
1964															Independent
1964		Robert Mather	Liberal								Nigel Abbott	Liberal		Ken Austin	Labor		Merv Everett	Labor
1965					George Brown	Liberal
1969					Bob Baker	Liberal		Max Bingham	Liberal											Neil Batt	Labor
1972											Kevin Corby	Labor
1974											John Green	Labor					Ian Cole	Labor
1976														Julian Amos	Labor		Max Robinson	Liberal
1979																	John Devine	Labor
1980					Gabriel Haros	Liberal					Norm Sanders	Democrats								Bob Graham	Labor
1982		Geoff Davis	Liberal																	Peter Walker	Liberal
1983											Bob Brown	Independent Green
1984								Carmel Holmes	Liberal								Bob Graham	Labor
1986						Independent
1986					Ray Groom	Liberal		Judy Jackson	Labor					Neil Batt	Labor		John White	Labor		John Bennett	Liberal
1987		John Barker	Liberal
1989												Greens		David Crean	Labor
1990																				Chris Gibson	Liberal
1992														Julian Amos	Labor					Michael Hodgman	Liberal
1993											Peg Putt	Greens
1996		Bob Cheek	Liberal											Jim Bacon	Labor
1998																5 seats (1998–present)
2001					Michael Hodgman	Liberal
2002		Graeme Sturges	Labor
2004														David Bartlett	Labor
2006								Lisa Singh	Labor
2008											Cassy O'Connor	Greens
2010		Elise Archer	Liberal		Matthew Groom	Liberal		Scott Bacon	Labor
2011														Graeme Sturges	Labor
2014														Madeleine Ogilvie	Labor
2018					Sue Hickey	Liberal								Ella Haddad	Labor

See also

• Tasmanian Legislative Council

External links

• Parliament of Tasmania
• Tasmanian Electoral Commission - House of Assembly