The Electoral division of Rowallan was one of the 15 Tasmanian Legislative Council

Tasmanian Legislative Council

The Legislative Council, or upper house, is one of the two chambers of the Parliament of Tasmania in Australia. The other is the House of Assembly. It sits in Parliament House in the state capital, Hobart...

 electorates or seats from 1999 to 2008, but it was re-named 'Western Tiers

Electoral division of Western Tiers

The electoral division of Western Tiers is one of the fifteen electorates or seats in the Tasmanian Legislative Council. The seat was created in 2008 after a redistribution saw the former Rowallan renamed after the Great Western Tiers mountain range in Tasmania's central highlands .The current...

' in 2008 after a redistribution of boundaries.

From 2001, the seat was held by independent member Greg Hall

Greg Hall

Gregory Raymond "Greg" Hall is an independent member of the Tasmanian Legislative Council in the electoral division of Rowallan. He was also Mayor of the Meander Valley Council from 1997 to 2002. Hall was born in Launceston...

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The electorate was created after the 1999 redistribution and includes many towns in northern rural Tasmania

Tasmania

Tasmania is an Australian island and state. It is south of the continent, separated by Bass Strait. The state includes the island of Tasmania—the 26th largest island in the world—and the surrounding islands. The state has a population of 507,626 , of whom almost half reside in the greater Hobart...

. The boundary is 9,987 km² in area.

Rowallan has 21,153 enrolled voters, the lowest of any of the fifteen Legislative Council constituencies.

Many towns are located with in Rowallan including: Deloraine

Deloraine, Tasmania

Deloraine is a town on the Meander River, in the central north of Tasmania, Australia. It lies 50 km west of Launceston and 52 km south of Devonport along the Bass Highway. It is part of the Meander Valley Council. At the 2006 census, Deloraine had a population of 2,243.The region was...

, Latrobe

Latrobe, Tasmania

Latrobe is a town in northern Tasmania, Australia, situated on the Mersey River. It lies 8 km south-east of Devonport on the Bass Highway. It is main centre of the Latrobe Council. At the 2006 census, Latrobe had a population of 2,843....

, Sheffield

Sheffield, Tasmania

Sheffield is a town situated 23 km inland from Devonport on the north-west coast of Tasmania, Australia's island state. Sheffield has long been the rural hub for the Mount Roland area. The Sheffield area is well known for its high quality butterfat production via dairy farming. The area is...

, Westbury

Westbury, Tasmania

Westbury is a town in the central north of Tasmania, Australia. It lies 30 km west of Launceston on the Bass Highway, and at the 2006 census had a population of 1,357. It is part of, and the headquarters of, the Meander Valley Council area....

, Cressy

Cressy, Tasmania

Cressy is a small town located south-west of Launceston, Tasmania. It came into existence in the 1850s to service the surrounding wheat farms. At the 2006 census, Cressy had a population of 670...

, Longford

Longford, Tasmania

Longford is a town in the north-east of Tasmania, Australia. It lies 175 m above sea level at the convergence of the Macquarie River and the South Esk River, 21 km south of Launceston. It is just south of the Illawarra Road, a road connecting the Bass and Midland Highways. It has a...

, Carrick

Carrick, Tasmania

Carrick is a small town in northern Tasmania about west of Launceston on the Liffey River, and on the 'Old Bass Highway' or Meander Valley Highway. At the 2006 census, the town had a population of 439....

, Bothwell

Bothwell, Tasmania

Bothwell, Tasmania is a small town with a population at the 2006 census of 376. Situated in central Tasmania on the River Clyde, it is notable for hunting and being a lake district. It is part of the municipality of Central Highlands Council...

, Frankford, Bishopsbourne

Bishopsbourne, Tasmania

Bishopsbourne is a farming community in northern Tasmania. It has a population of fewer than 200. It has a church, graveyard and recreation ground. Nearby towns include Carrick, Bracknell and Longford...

, Port Sorrell

Port Sorell, Tasmania

Port Sorell is a town on the north-west coast of Tasmania, Australia. It lies on the waterway of the same name, just off Bass Strait, 20 km east of Devonport and close to Shearwater and Hawley Beach...

, Waddamana

Waddamana, Tasmania

Waddamana is a former 'hydro-town' in Tasmania. It is at the foot of the southern side of the Central Plateau of Tasmania.It flourished with a population of over 100 in the early 1900s when the power plant situated there was being built...

, Interlaken and part of Perth

Perth, Tasmania

Perth is a town in the north-east of Tasmania, Australia. It lies 20 km south of Launceston, on the Midland Highway. The town has a population of 1,984 and is averaging a 1% increase per year . Perth is part of the Northern Midlands Council. Federal Lyons MHR Dick Adams also has an office...

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The last election held in 6 May 2006 saw current member Greg Hall

Greg Hall

Gregory Raymond "Greg" Hall is an independent member of the Tasmanian Legislative Council in the electoral division of Rowallan. He was also Mayor of the Meander Valley Council from 1997 to 2002. Hall was born in Launceston...

 defeat a sole Tasmanian Greens

Tasmanian Greens

The Tasmanian Greens are a political party in Australia which developed from numerous environmental campaigns in Tasmania, including the flooding of Lake Pedder and the Franklin Dam campaign...

 opponent, Karen Cassidy with an 81.95% primary vote.

Members

Member		Party affiliation	Period
	John Loone John Loone John Arthur Loone is a former Australian politician. He was an Independent member of the Tasmanian Legislative Council from 1989 to 2001, representing Tamar, Roland and finally Rowallan....	Independent Independent (politician) In politics, an independent or non-party politician is an individual not affiliated to any political party. Independents may hold a centrist viewpoint between those of major political parties, a viewpoint more extreme than any major party, or they may have a viewpoint based on issues that they do...	1999–2001
	Greg Hall Greg Hall Gregory Raymond "Greg" Hall is an independent member of the Tasmanian Legislative Council in the electoral division of Rowallan. He was also Mayor of the Meander Valley Council from 1997 to 2002. Hall was born in Launceston...	Independent Independent (politician) In politics, an independent or non-party politician is an individual not affiliated to any political party. Independents may hold a centrist viewpoint between those of major political parties, a viewpoint more extreme than any major party, or they may have a viewpoint based on issues that they do...	2001–2008