# 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

| 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) | Free Trade | 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 |
| Norman Cameron (1851–1931) | Anti-Socialist | 1906 – 1906 | Previously held the Division of Tasmania. Lost seat. Later elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly seat of Wilmot in 1912 |
| Norman Cameron (1851–1931) | Independent Anti-Socialist | 1906 – 12 December 1906 | Previously held the Division of Tasmania. Lost seat. Later elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly seat of Wilmot in 1912 |
| 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 |
| Llewellyn Atkinson (1867–1945) | Liberal | 26 May 1909 – 17 February 1917 | Served as minister under Bruce. Lost seat. Later elected to the Tasmanian Legislative Council in 1931 |
| Llewellyn Atkinson (1867–1945) | Nationalist | 17 February 1917 – 1922 | Served as minister under Bruce. Lost seat. Later elected to the Tasmanian Legislative Council in 1931 |
| Llewellyn Atkinson (1867–1945) | Country | 1922 – 1928 | Served as minister under Bruce. Lost seat. Later elected to the Tasmanian Legislative Council in 1931 |
| Llewellyn Atkinson (1867–1945) | Nationalist | 1928 – 12 October 1929 | Served as minister under Bruce. Lost seat. Later elected to the Tasmanian Legislative Council in 1931 |
| 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 |
| Joseph Lyons (1879–1939) | Independent | March 1931 – 7 May 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 |
| Joseph Lyons (1879–1939) | United Australia | 7 May 1931 – 7 April 1939 | 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 |
| 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 |
| Allan Guy (1890–1979) | Liberal | 21 February 1945 – 28 September 1946 | 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 |
| 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 |