Division of Wilmot

Wilmot Australian House of Representatives Division
Created	1903
Abolished	1984
Namesake	John Eardley-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, in order to jointly honor Joseph Lyons, the fourteenth consecutive 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

Member		Party	Term
	Sir Edward Braddon	Free Trade	1903–1904
	Norman Cameron	Free Trade	1904–1906
		Independent	1906–1906
	Llewellyn Atkinson	Anti-Socialist	1906–1909
		Commonwealth Liberal	1909–1917
		Nationalist	1917–1921
		Country	1921–1928
		Nationalist	1928–1929
	Joseph Lyons	Labor	1929–1931
		United Australia	1931–1939
	Lancelot Spurr	Labor	1939–1940
	Allan Guy	United Australia	1940–1946
	Gil Duthie	Labor	1946–1975
	Max Burr	Liberal	1975–1984

Election results

Coordinates: 42°46′00″S 147°03′00″E / 42.7667°S 147.0500°E