Candidates of the 1964 Tasmanian state election

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The 1964 Tasmanian state election was held on 2 May 1964.

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Retiring Members

Labor

Liberal

House of Assembly

Sitting members are shown in bold text. Tickets that elected at least one MHA are highlighted in the relevant colour. Successful candidates are indicated by an asterisk (*).

Bass

Seven seats were up for election. The Labor Party was defending three seats. The Liberal Party was defending three seats. The seventh seat had been won in 1959 by independent candidate Reg Turnbull, but a recount conducted following Turnbull's resignation in 1961 had elected a Labor candidate.

Labor candidates Liberal candidates Country candidates DLP candidatesGroup A candidatesUngrouped candidates

Alexander Atkins *
Eric Down
Wallace Fraser *
Harold Holmes
Norman Laurence
Mac Le Fevre *
Laurence Lovett
John Madden *

Bill Beattie *
Max Bushby *
Stewart Chapple
Kevin Hendstock
James Henty
Jack Hookway
James McGowen
John Steer*

Keith Darcey
Geoffrey Finney
Graeme Millar
Colin Rattray

Edward Hare
Frederick Kaye

Leslie Arnold
Jack Harper

Brian Johnson

Braddon

Seven seats were up for election. The Labor Party was defending four seats. The Liberal Party was defending three seats.

Labor candidates Liberal candidates Country candidates DLP candidates

Douglas Blacklow
Joseph Britton
Geoff Chisholm*
Lloyd Costello *
Gordon O'Shannessey
Eric Reece *
Richard Sleath
Sydney Ward *

Wilfred Barker*
Jack Breheny *
Ray Grey
Ernest Johnson
John Leary
Kevin Lyons *
Charles MacKenzie
Loch Roberts
William Young

Gilbert Allen
Thomas Barnard
Roger Chalk
Anthony Hine
Elliott Hooper
Eric Webster

Ronald Cole
John Chapman-Mortimer
Abraham Neut

Denison

Seven seats were up for election. The Labor Party was defending three seats. The Liberal Party was defending three seats. Labor MHA Charley Aylett and Liberal MHA Bill Hodgman, however, were running as independents. Independent Bill Wedd was also defending a seat.

Labor candidates Liberal candidatesGroup A candidatesUngrouped candidates

Ken Austin*
Mary Cumming
Merv Everett*
Henry Hope
Eric Howroyd
Neville Lovell
Harry McLoughlin *
Myron Tripp

Nigel Abbott*
George Brown
Donald Clark
Robert Mather*
Gladys Schott
Horace Strutt *
Rex Townley *

John Clemente
Bill Wedd

Charley Aylett
Max Bound (CPA)
Bill Hodgman
Stanislaus Ryan
Harold Senior

Franklin

Seven seats were up for election. The Labor Party was defending three seats. The Liberal Party was defending four seats, although Liberal MHA Tim Jackson was running as an independent.

Labor candidates Liberal candidates Country candidatesUngrouped candidates

Eric Barnard *
William Blackburn
Jack Frost*
Clyde Harvey
Lynda Heaven
Terry Martin*
Bill Neilson *
Ken Wriedt

Doug Clark*
Eric Iles
Ken Lowrie
Jan Meldrum
Mabel Miller
Thomas Pearsall *
Bill Young *

Vernon Rae
Kathleen Reynolds
James Skinner
Gordon Suhr
Murrum Sweet

George Carr
Tim Jackson
Virgil Morgan (DLP)

Wilmot

Seven seats were up for election. The Labor Party was defending four seats. The Liberal Party was defending three seats.

Labor candidates Liberal candidates Country candidates DLP candidatesUngrouped candidates

William Anderson*
Douglas Cashion *
Roy Fagan *
Thomas McDonald *
William McNeil
Henry Penny
Archibald Wilson

Bert Bessell *
Angus Bethune *
Henry Clark
Bob Ingamells *
Ronald Johnstone
Kenneth O'Brien

Allen Brown
William Dunbabin
Solomon Henderson
Maxwell Oliver
Bernard Taylor

Alastair Davidson
Harold Grace

Bruce Hill

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