Stanley was created by the Electoral Districts Act in 1872 as a single-member seat.

At the 1897 election, Wellington returned to being a single-member seat when Waratah split away from it.

At the 1897 election, Queenborough was recreated and Kingborough returned to being a single-member seat.

The seat was created as a single-member seat ahead of the Assembly's first election held in 1856.

When proportional representation was abolished in 1927 he was not able to win Labor preselection for a single-member seat and retired.

Instead, he ran for the newly established single-member District 39 seat in the state Senate.

A redistribution in 1946 broke up the two multi-member seats into single-member seats.

In other states and territories, candidates contest single-member seats.

The seat was created as a single-member seat ahead of the 1871 state election following the abolition of the Devon seat.

The district was eventually divided into single-member seats.