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.

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A redistribution in 1907 resulted in the abolition of all of the single-member seats and the adoption of multi-member districts based on he five federal electorates that had been created for Tasmania. The Hare-Clark proportional representation system was to be used to elect six members to each of the new districts. In addition, the Gregory fractional method was to be used to transfer surplus votes held by winners and the Droop quota was to be used (unlike the whole vote transfer method and Hare quota that were used in 1897 and 1900). [1] 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.

NamePartyDivisionYears 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-SocialistDenison1884–1913
David Dicker Labor Franklin 1909–1922
John Earle LaborFranklin1906–1917
John Evans Anti-SocialistFranklin1897–1937
Norman Ewing Anti-SocialistFranklin1909–1915
Richard Field Anti-SocialistWilmot1909–1912
James Guy LaborBass1909–1913
Herbert Hays [3] Anti-SocialistWilmot1911–1922
Alexander Hean Anti-SocialistFranklin1903–1913; 1916–1925
Thomas Hodgman Anti-SocialistFranklin1900–1912
John Hope [3] Anti-SocialistWilmot1900–1911
Charles Howroyd LaborBass1906–1917
James Hurst [1] LaborDarwin1910–1912; 1919–1926
Jens Jensen [2] LaborWilmot1903–1910; 1922–1925;
1928–1934
Walter Lee Anti-SocialistWilmot1909–1946
Elliott Lewis Anti-SocialistDenison1886–1903; 1909–1922
James Long [1] LaborDarwin1903–1910
Joseph Lyons LaborWilmot1909–1929
Richard McKenzie Anti-SocialistBass1906–1913
Edward Mulcahy [2] Anti-SocialistWilmot1891–1903; 1910–1919
James Ogden LaborDarwin1906–1922
Herbert Payne Anti-SocialistDarwin1903–1920
Frederick Rattle Anti-SocialistDenison1903–1912
Robert Sadler Liberal DemocratBass1900–1912; 1913–1922
William Sheridan LaborDenison1909–1913; 1914–1928
Albert Solomon Anti-SocialistBass1909–1914
Benjamin Watkins LaborDarwin1906–1917; 1919–1922;
1925–1934
Joshua Whitsitt Anti-SocialistDarwin1909–1922
Walter Woods LaborDenison1906–1917; 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.

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  1. ↑ Newman. Hare-Clark in Tasmania. p. 75.

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