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TAS DIVISION - DENISON

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Division Name DENISON
State Tasmania
Elected Member Kerr, D (ALP) 1987-
Name Derivation Named after Sir William Denison 1804-71, Lieutenant-Governor of Tasmania 1847-55 and Governor of New South Wales 1855-61.
First Proclaimed / Election 1903
Area 221 sq. kms
Demographic Inner Metropolitan
Pre-Election Seat Status Safe
Seat Status Safe
Enrolment 68,848
Turnout 95.30%
Informal 2.50%
Location Denison covers an area of approximately 221 sq km from Austins Ferry in the north to Taroona in the south, from Hobart in the east to Collinsvale in the west. The City of Hobart and environs and the City of Glenorchy are in this division.
Products and Industry Banking and retail, chocolate and confectionery, catamaran construction, brewery, zinc works, food and timber processing, heavy transport, wholesale trade, engineering works, glass products and port facilities at Hobart.

Members
Kerr, D (ALP) 1987-
Hodgman, W M (LP) 1975-1987
Coates, J (ALP) 1972-1975
Solomon, R J (LP) 1969-1972
Gibson, A (LP) 1964-1969
Townley, A G (LP) 1949-1963
Gaha, J F (ALP) 1943-1949
Beck, A J (UAP) 1940-1943
Mahoney, G W (ALP) 1934-1940
Hutchin, A W (UAP) 1931-1934
Culley, C E (ALP) 1928-1931
Gellibrand, J (NAT) 1925-1928
O'Keefe, D J (ALP) 1922-1925
Smith, W H (ALP/NAT) 1910-1922
Fysh, P (PROT/ANTI-SOC) 1903-1910

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