The Electoral district of Waratah was a single-member electoral district of the Tasmanian House of Assembly. It centred on the town of Waratah in western Tasmania.
The seat was created in a redistribution ahead of the 1897 election from the southern part of the Wellington electorate, which had been a two-member seat until the election. The seat was abolished when the Tasmanian parliament adopted the Hare-Clark electoral model in 1909. Its final member, John Earle, successfully stood for the multi-member seat of Franklin and, shortly after the 1909 election, became Tasmania's the first Labor premier, albeit of an unstable minority government which lasted a week. He regained the Premiership in 1914 and held it for two years, before gaining a seat in the Australian Senate.
Member | Party | Term | |||
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Charles Hall | 1897–1903 | ||||
George Gilmore | 1903–1906 | ||||
John Earle | Labour | 1906–1909 |
. Colin Hughes. Graham, B. D.. Voting for the South Australian, Western Australian and Tasmanian Lower Houses, 1890-1964. 1976. Australian National University. Canberra. 0-7081-1334-6.