Tasmania - Parliament
and Members
Tasmania has two Houses of Parliament, the House of Assembly and the
Legislative Council.
For the Legislative Assembly, Tasmania is divided into
five electorates which each elect five Members (total 25 Members) using the
Hare-Clark system of proportional representation. (Click here
for a description of the Hare-Clark
system.) Thus each voter has five representatives in the Legislative Assembly. Elections
are held every four years.
For the Legislative Council, the State
is
divided into fifteen single-Member constituencies. are elected six years,
and periodical elections are held for either two or three electorates every
year. Legislative Council is never dissolved; are no 'general' elections for the full
Legislative Council. Each voter has one representative in the Legislative Council.
The Labor Party is in government.
Tasmanian Parliament web
site
Members of the House of
Assembly
Members of the
Legislative Council Author: Jenny Stokes | Modified: 7 July 2004 |
