Division of 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, to jointly honour Joseph Lyons, 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, the first woman elected to the Australian House of Representatives in 1943 and subsequently the first female member of Cabinet (1949–51).

Members

	Image	Member	Party	Term	Notes
		Sir Edward Braddon (1829–1904)	Free Trade	16 December 1903 – 2 February 1904	Previously held the Division of Tasmania. Died in office
		Norman Cameron (1851–1931)		26 February 1904 – 1906	Previously held the Division of Tasmania. Lost seat. Later elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly seat of Wilmot in 1912
			Anti-Socialist	1906 – 1906
			Independent Anti-Socialist	1906 – 12 December 1906
		Llewellyn Atkinson (1867–1945)	Anti-Socialist	12 December 1906 – 26 May 1909	Served as minister under Bruce. Lost seat. Later elected to the Tasmanian Legislative Council in 1931
			Liberal	26 May 1909 – 17 February 1917
			Nationalist	17 February 1917 – 1922
			Country	1922 – 1928
			Nationalist	1928 – 12 October 1929
		Joseph Lyons (1879–1939)	Labor	12 October 1929 – March 1931	Previously held the Tasmanian House of Assembly seat of Wilmot. Served as minister under Scullin. Served as Opposition Leader from 1931 to 1932. Served as Prime Minister from 1932 to 1939. Died in office
			Independent	March 1931 – 7 May 1931
			United Australia	7 May 1931 – 7 April 1939
		Lancelot Spurr (1897–1965)	Labor	27 May 1939 – 21 September 1940	Lost seat. Later elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly seat of Wilmot in 1941
		Allan Guy (1890–1979)	United Australia	21 September 1940 – 21 February 1945	Previously held the Division of Bass. Served as Chief Government Whip in the House under Menzies and Fadden. Lost seat. Later elected to the Senate in 1949
			Liberal	21 February 1945 – 28 September 1946
		Gil Duthie (1912–1998)	Labor	28 September 1946 – 13 December 1975	Lost seat
		Max Burr (1939–)	Liberal	13 December 1975 – 1 December 1984	Transferred to the Division of Lyons after Wilmot was abolished in 1984

Election results

References

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