Candidates of the Tasmanian state election, 1941

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This article provides information on candidates who stood for the 1941 Tasmanian state election , held on 13 December 1941.

1941 Tasmanian state election

The 1941 Tasmanian state election was held on 13 December 1941 in the Australian state of Tasmania to elect 30 members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly. The election used the Hare-Clark proportional representation system — six members were elected from each of five electorates.

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Retiring Members

No MHAs retired at this election.

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

Six seats were up for election. The Labor Party was defending four seats. The Nationalist Party was defending two seats.

The Australian Labor Party , commonly known as Tasmanian Labor is the Tasmanian branch of the Australian Labor Party.

Labor candidates Nationalist candidates
 

Thomas Davies *
Eric Howroyd *
John McDonald *
John Madden *
John Quintal
Alan Welsh

Thomas Henry Davies was an Australian politician.

Eric Richard Aldred Howroyd was an Australian politician.

John Joseph McDonald was Labor Party Member of the Tasmania House of Assembly for the electorate of Bass from 9 June 1934 until his resignation on 16 April 1945. He was the son of James McDonald and the brother of Thomas Raymond McDonald, both also members of the Tasmanian Parliament.

Allen Hollingsworth
Frank Marriott *
John Ockerby *
Desmond Oldham
Ernest Pitchford

Allen William Hollingsworth was an Australian politician.He was a member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly for the Nationalist Party from 9 Jun 1934 until 13 December 1941. He was an alderman of the City of Launceston, and Mayor of the city in 1933-1934, 1946 and 1950.

Francis "Frank" Marriott was an English-born Australian politician.

John Featherstone Ockerby was an Australian politician. He was born in Dewsbury in Yorkshire. He was Mayor of Launceston in Tasmania in 1925 and 1939. In 1928 he was elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly as a Nationalist member for Bass, serving until his defeat in 1946. Ockerby died in Launceston in 1951.

Darwin

Six seats were up for election. The Labor Party was defending three seats. The Nationalist Party was defending three seats.

Labor candidates Nationalist candidates
 

James Bugg*
Thomas d'Alton *
Philip Kelly *
Henry Lane *
Michael Smith

James Phillip Bugg was an Australian politician.

Thomas George De Largie "Tom" d'Alton was an Australian politician and diplomat. He was born in Warracknabeal in Victoria. In 1931 d'Alton was elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly as a Labor member for Darwin; he was a minister from 1934 to 1943, and had been Deputy Premier.

Philip Louis Kelly was an Australian politician.

Gerald Acheson
Norman Booth
Stephen Broad
Jack Chamberlain *
Russell Green
Henry McFie*
John Wright

Denison

Six seats were up for election. The Labor Party was defending four seats. The Nationalist Party was defending two seats.

Labor candidates Nationalist candidatesUngrouped candidates
 

Robert Cosgrove *
Charles Culley *
Edmund Dwyer-Gray *
Francis Heerey
Sarah Kelly
Alfred White*

Charles Atkins*
Robert Harvey
Albert Kalbfell
Dugald McDougall
Raymond Smith
John Soundy *
Ernest Turner

Michael O'Reilly

Franklin

Six seats were up for election. The Labor Party was defending four seats. The Nationalist Party was defending two seats.

Labor candidates Nationalist candidatesUngrouped candidates
 

Edward Brooker *
John Dwyer *
Henry Hope*
Francis McDermott
Thomas McKinley*
Basil Plummer

Henry Baker *
Albert Beard
Arthur Crisp
Leo McPartlan
Sir John McPhee*
Benjamin Pearsall
John Piggott
Vincent Shoobridge

Thomas Kimber

Wilmot

Six seats were up for election. The Labor Party was defending three seats. The Nationalist Party was defending three seats.

Labor candidates Nationalist candidates
 

David O'Keefe *
Peter Pike
Lancelot Spurr *
William Taylor *
Ernest West*

Neil Campbell *
Francis Foster
Thomas Johnston
Sir Walter Lee *
Raymond Madden
Milton Taylor

See also

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