List of senators from Tasmania

Tasmania Australian Senate
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Created	1901
Party	Labor (4)   Liberal (4)   Greens (2)   Lambie (1)   Independent (1)

This is a list of senators from the state of Tasmania since the Federation of Australia in 1901.

List

Senate	Election	Senator (Party)		Senator (Party)		Senator (Party)		Senator (Party)		Senator (Party)		Senator (Party)		Senator (Party)		Senator (Party)		Senator (Party)		Senator (Party)		Senator (Party)		Senator (Party)
1901–1903	1901		Cyril Cameron (Protectionist) [1]		David O'Keefe (Labor) [2]		Henry Dobson (Free Trade/ Revenue Tariff/ Anti-Socialist/ Liberal) [3]		James Macfarlane (Free Trade/ Liberal) [4]		John Clemons (Free Trade/ Liberal) [5]		John Keating (Protectionist/ Liberal/ Nationalist) [6]	6 senators per state 1901-1950
1904–1906	1903	Edward Mulcahy (Protectionist/ Liberal) [7]
	1906
1907–1910	1906			Cyril Cameron (Anti-Socialist/ Liberal) [1]
	1909
1910–1913	1910		David O'Keefe (Labor) [2]			James Long (Labor) [8]		Rudolph Ready (Labor) [9]
1913–1914	1913	Thomas Bakhap (Liberal/ Nationalist) [10]
1914–1917	1914				James Guy (Labor) [11]
	1917							John Earle (Nationalist) [12]
1917–1920	1917
	1919					Edward Mulcahy (Nationalist) [7]
1920–1923	1919			George Foster (Nationalist) [13]	Herbert Payne (Nationalist/ UAP) [14]		John Millen (Nationalist/ UAP) [15]
1923–1926	1922					James Ogden (Labor/ Independent/ Nationalist/ UAP) [16]		Herbert Hays (Nationalist/ UAP/ Liberal) [17]
	1923	John Hayes (Nationalist/ UAP/ Liberal) [18]
	July 1925		Charles Grant (Nationalist) [19]
	Nov 1925		Burford Sampson (Nationalist/ UAP) [20]
	1926
1926–1929	1925
	1928
1929–1932	1928
	1931
	1932			Charles Grant (UAP) [19]
1932–1935	1931
1935–1938	1934
1938–1941	1937				Bill Aylett (Labor) [21]		Charles Lamp (Labor) [22]			Richard Darcey (Labor) [23]
1941–1944	1940		Burford Sampson (UAP/ Liberal) [20]
1944–1947	1943			Nick McKenna (Labor) [24]
	1945
1947–1950	1946		Bill Morrow (Labor) [25]					Justin O'Byrne (Labor) [26]		Reg Murray (Labor) [27]
	1950					George Cole (Labor/ DLP) [28]					Allan Guy (Liberal) [29]		Reg Wright (Liberal) [30]		Robert Wordsworth (Liberal) [31]	10 senators per state 1950-1984
1950–1951	1949						Denham Henty (Liberal) [32]
1951–1953	1951								Jack Chamberlain (Liberal) [33]
	March 1953	John Marriott (Liberal) [34]
	May 1953	Robert Wardlaw (Liberal) [35]
1953–1956	1953								John Marriott (Liberal) [34]
	1955
1956–1959	1955									Bob Poke (Labor) [36]
1959–1962	1958		Elliot Lillico (Liberal) [37]
1962–1965	1961										Reg Turnbull (Independent) [38]
1965–1968	1964	Bert Lacey (Labor) [39]				Don Devitt (Labor) [40]
1968–1971	1967			Peter Rae (Liberal) [41]	Ken Wriedt (Labor) [42]
1971–1974	1970						Michael Townley (Independent/ Liberal) [43]
1974–1975	1974		Don Grimes (Labor) [44]							Merv Everett (Labor) [45]	Eric Bessell (Liberal) [46]
	1975
1975–1978	1975	Brian Archer (Liberal) [47]								Brian Harradine (Independent) [48]	Shirley Walters (Liberal) [49]
1978–1981	1977					Michael Tate (Labor) [50]			John Watson (Liberal) [51]
	1980				Jean Hearn (Labor) [52]
1981–1983	1980							John Coates (Labor) [53]
1983–1985	1983
	1984												Terry Aulich (Labor) [54]		Ray Devlin (Labor) [55]
1985–1987	1984											Norm Sanders (Democrat) [56]
	1986			Jocelyn Newman (Liberal) [57]
1987–1990	1987		Paul Calvert (Liberal) [58]		John Devereux (Labor/ Independent) [59]
	1990						Robert Bell (Democrat) [60]
1990–1993	1990											Nick Sherry (Labor) [61]
1993–1996	1993										Brian Gibson (Liberal) [62]		Shayne Murphy (Labor/ Independent) [63]
	1993					Kay Denman (Labor) [64]
	1994	Eric Abetz (Liberal) [65]
	1996													Sue Mackay (Labor) [66]
1996–1999	1996						Bob Brown (Greens) [67]
	1996				Kerry O'Brien (Labor) [68]
1999–2002	1998
	2001
	2002			Richard Colbeck (Liberal) [69]				Guy Barnett (Liberal) [70]
2002–2005	2001
2005–2008	2004					Helen Polley (Labor) [71]					Christine Milne (Greens) [72]				Stephen Parry (Liberal) [73]
	2005									Carol Brown (Labor) [74]
	2007		David Bushby (Liberal) [75]
2008–2011	2007												Catryna Bilyk (Labor) [76]
2011–2014	2010				Anne Urquhart (Labor) [77]				Lisa Singh (Labor) [78]
	2012						Peter Whish-Wilson (Greens) [79]	Lin Thorp (Labor) [80]
2014–2016	2013											Jacqui Lambie (Palmer United/ Independent/ JLN) [81]
	2014
	2015							Nick McKim (Greens) [82]
2016–2019	2016			Jonathon Duniam (Liberal) [83]
	Feb 2018										Richard Colbeck (Liberal) [69]			Steve Martin (Independent/ National) [84]
	May 2018
	2019		Wendy Askew (Liberal) [85]
2019–2022	2019											Claire Chandler (Liberal) [86]			Jacqui Lambie (JLN) [81]
2022–2025	2022								Tammy Tyrrell (JLN/ Independent) [87]
	2024
	2025	Josh Dolega (Labor) [88]
2025–2028	2025				Richard Dowling (Labor) [89]

See also

• Electoral results for the Australian Senate in Tasmania

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