{{Short description|Australian politician}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2016}} {{Use Australian English|date=November 2016}} '''Stephen John Wilson''' (born 27 April 1948) is a former Australian politician<ref>{{cite Tas Parliament |id=wilson636 |title=Wilson, Stephen John |access-date=24 July 2022}}</ref> from Tasmania, serving as an independent member of the Tasmanian Legislative Council from 1981-1999 (18 years).
Wilson entered politics on 23 May 1981 when he was elected to the southern based seat of Monmouth in the Tasmanian Legislative Council. He was re-elected a further two times to the seat, in 1987 and 1993.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://tec.tas.gov.au/pages/LegislativeCouncil/History/Monmouth/History_MonmouthElectionChronology.html |title=Tasmanian Electoral Commission |website=tec.tas.gov.au |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090608204616/http://tec.tas.gov.au/pages/LegislativeCouncil/History/Monmouth/History_MonmouthElectionChronology.html |archive-date=2009-06-08}}</ref> During the 1998 Legislative Council electoral boundaries redistribution, the seat of Monmouth was abolished and Stephen Wilson was allocated as the inaugural member for the Electoral division of Rumney.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.lcredistribution.tas.gov.au/pages/transition.html |title=Legislative Council Transition determination |access-date=4 November 2011 |archive-date=5 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305000200/http://www.lcredistribution.tas.gov.au/pages/transition.html |url-status=dead}}</ref>
He contested the 1999 election as the sitting member for Rumney, but was defeated by Labor candidate Lin Thorp on the final recount of votes by a tally of less than 100.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://tec.tas.gov.au/pages/LegislativeCouncil/History/Rumney/1999Rumney.html |title=Division of Rumney |publisher=Tasmanian Electoral Commission |website=tec.tas.gov.au |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090608214841/http://tec.tas.gov.au/pages/LegislativeCouncil/History/Rumney/1999Rumney.html |archive-date=2009-06-08}}</ref>
==References== <!--- See Wikipedia:Footnotes on how to create references using <ref></ref> tags which will then appear here automatically --> {{Reflist}} {{s-start}} {{s-par|au-tas-lc}} {{s-bef|before=Louis Bisdee}} {{s-ttl|title=Member for Monmouth|years=1981–1999}} {{s-non|reason=Abolished}} {{s-end}}
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