- Members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly, 1909–1912
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This is a list of members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly between the 30 April 1909 election and the 30 April 1912 election.A redistribution in 1907 resulted in the abolition of all of the single-member seats and the adoption of the five federal electorates which had been created for Tasmania, and used the Hare-Clark proportional representation system to elect six members to each of the seats. The 1909 election was the point at which these changes took effect.
One major result was the formation of parties—prior to 1909, members other than those pledged to the Labor Party had adopted loose and flexible affiliations, generally being known as "Ministerialist", "Oppositionist/Liberal" or "Independent". A coalition of former Ministerialists, Independents and Liberals formed the Anti-Socialist Party (which became the Liberal Party of Tasmania in 1912), while another group of Oppositionists formed the Liberal Democrat Party.
The second major result was the product of the election itself—the near-complete destruction of the former Liberal grouping which had originally formed around Sir Edward Braddon and Andrew Inglis Clark, and the considerable rise in the fortunes of the Labor Party. They gained 12 seats in the new Assembly, and for the first time in Tasmania's history, held government for a week in October 1909 under Premier John Earle.
Name Party Division Years in office Thomas Bakhap Anti-Socialist Bass 1909–1913 James Belton Labor Darwin 1909–1931 Jonathan Best Anti-Socialist Wilmot 1894–1897; 1899–1912; 1913 Edward Crowther Anti-Socialist Denison 1878–1912 John Davies Anti-Socialist Denison 1884–1913 David Dicker Labor Franklin 1909–1922 John Earle Labor Franklin 1906–1917 John Evans Anti-Socialist Franklin 1897–1937 Norman Ewing Anti-Socialist Franklin 1909–1915 Richard Field Anti-Socialist Wilmot 1909–1912 James Guy Labor Bass 1909–1913 Herbert Hays[3] Anti-Socialist Wilmot 1911–1922 Alexander Hean Anti-Socialist Franklin 1903–1913; 1916–1925 Thomas Hodgman Anti-Socialist Franklin 1900–1912 John Hope[3] Anti-Socialist Wilmot 1900–1911 Charles Howroyd Labor Bass 1906–1917 James Hurst[1] Labor Darwin 1910–1912; 1919–1926 Jens Jensen[2] Labor Wilmot 1903–1910; 1922–1925;
1928–1934Walter Lee Anti-Socialist Wilmot 1909–1946 Elliott Lewis Anti-Socialist Denison 1886–1903; 1909–1922 James Long[1] Labor Darwin 1903–1910 Joseph Lyons Labor Wilmot 1909–1929 Robert McKenzie Anti-Socialist Bass 1906–1913 Edward Mulcahy[2] Anti-Socialist Wilmot 1891–1903; 1910–1919 James Ogden Labor Darwin 1906–1922 Herbert Payne Anti-Socialist Darwin 1903–1920 Frederick Rattle Anti-Socialist Denison 1903–1912 Robert Sadler Liberal Democrat Bass 1900–1912; 1913–1922 William Sheridan Labor Denison 1909–1913; 1914–1928 Albert Solomon Anti-Socialist Bass 1909–1914 Benjamin Watkins Labor Darwin 1906–1917; 1919–1922;
1925–1934Joshua Whitsitt Anti-Socialist Darwin 1909–1922 Walter Woods Labor Denison 1906–1917; 1925–1931 Notes
- 1 On 28 February 1910, Darwin Labor MHA James Long resigned to contest a seat in the Australian Senate. Labor candidate James Hurst replaced him on 8 June 1910.
- 2 On 25 February 1910, Wilmot Labor MHA Jens Jensen resigned to contest the Bass seat in the federal House of Representatives. Anti-Socialist candidate Edward Mulcahy replaced him on 8 June 1910.
- 3 On 14 April 1911, Wilmot Anti-Socialist MHA John Hope resigned to contest the Legislative Council seat of Meander, which he won on 2 May 1911. Anti-Socialist candidate Herbert Hays replaced him on 8 June 1911.
Sources
- Hughes, Colin A.; Graham, B. D. (1976). Voting for the South Australian, Western Australian and Tasmanian Lower Houses, 1890-1964. Canberra: Australian National University. ISBN 0-7081-1334-6.
- Parliament of Tasmania (2006). The Parliament of Tasmania from 1856
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Categories:- Members of Tasmanian parliaments by term
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