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 multi-member districts based on the five federal electorates that had been created for Tasmania. The Hare-Clark proportional representation system was used to elect six members to each of the new districts. In addition, the Gregory fractional method was used to transfer surplus votes held by winners and the Droop quota was used (unlike the whole vote transfer method and Hare quota that were used in 1897 and 1900). [1] These changes took effect with the 1909 election.
One major outcome was the formation of political 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. Meanwhile, 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; 1928–1934 |
| Walter 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 |
| Richard 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; 1925–1934 |
| Joshua Whitsitt | Anti-Socialist | Darwin | 1909–1922 |
| Walter Woods | Labor | Denison | 1906–1917; 1925–1931 |
