Electoral division of Pembroke

Pembroke
Tasmania—Legislative Council
Pembroke; Tasmania—Legislative Council
	Map showing the electoral division of Pembroke, as of the 2017 periodic review.
State	Tasmania
Created	1856
MP	Luke Edmunds
Party	Labor
Namesake	Pembroke Land District
Electors	22,876 (2019)
Area	32 km2 (12.4 sq mi)
Demographic	Outer-metropolitan
Coordinates	42°51′54″S 147°23′10″E / 42.865°S 147.386°E

The electoral division of Pembroke is one of the 15 electorates or 'seats' in the Tasmanian Legislative Council or upper house. It is located on Hobart's Eastern Shore (east side of the Derwent River) and includes a number of suburbs; Risdon Vale, Geilston Bay, Rose Bay, Lindisfarne, Warrane, Mornington, Bellerive, Howrah and Tranmere. In earlier times, the division included most of the east coast of Tasmania as far north as Bicheno, including the Tasman Peninsula.

The electorate takes its name from a county which was created in Tasmania by early British settlers. The division and the former county both took their name from Pembrokeshire in Wales.^[2]

Members

	Party	Period
James Whyte	Independent	1856–1876
James Lord	Independent	1876–1881
William Hodgson	Independent	1881–1891
Henry Lamb	Independent	1891–1899
William Perkins	Independent	1899–1903
James Murdoch Sr.	Independent	1903–1925
James Murdoch Jr.	Independent	1925–1935
John Murdoch	Independent	1935–1936
Archibald Blacklow	Independent	1936–1953
William Dunbabin	Independent	1953–1959
Ben McKay	Independent	1959–1976
Peter McKay	Independent	1976–1991
Peter McKay	Liberal	1991–1999
Cathy Edwards	Independent	1999–2001
Allison Ritchie	Labor	2001–2009
Vanessa Goodwin	Liberal	2009–2017
Jo Siejka	Labor	2017–2022
Luke Edmunds	Labor	2022–present

Election results

2022 Pembroke state by-election^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Luke Edmunds	7,176	39.48	−5.77
	Liberal	Gregory Brown	5,234	28.79	+3.50
	Greens	Deborah Brewer	3,502	19.27	+19.27
	Independent	Hans Willink	1,692	9.31	+9.31
	Shooters, Fishers, Farmers	Carlo Di Falco	574	3.16	−0.51
Total formal votes			18,178	96.94	+0.17
Informal votes			573	3.06	−0.17
Turnout			18,751	80.52	−5.11
Two-party-preferred result
	Labor	Luke Edmunds	11,467	63.26	+4.61
	Liberal	Gregory Brown	6,660	36.74	−4.61
	Labor hold		Swing	+4.61

References

^ Legislative Council Divisions (2016-17 redistribution) from theLIST ©State of Tasmania (Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia Licence).
^ "Tasmanian Electoral Commission". Archived from the original on 28 August 2007. Retrieved 6 July 2007.
^ "2022 Legislative Council by-election results – Pembroke". Tasmanian Electoral Commission. Retrieved 23 September 2022.