This is a list of members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly between the 30 May 1928 election and the 9 May 1931 election. The 1928 election failed to deliver a majority, and the Nationalists' John McPhee took over from Labor's Joseph Lyons as Premier of Tasmania. Lyons subsequently retired from state politics, obtaining election to the Federal seat of Wilmot and going on to become Prime Minister of Australia in 1931.
| Name | Party | Division | Years in office |
|---|---|---|---|
| Henry Baker | Nationalist | Franklin | 1928–1946 |
| George Becker | Labor | Bass | 1912–1931; 1934–1941 |
| James Belton | Labor | Darwin | 1909–1931 |
| Percy Best | Nationalist | Wilmot | 1928–1931 |
| Neil Campbell | Nationalist | Wilmot | 1922–1955 |
| Robert Cosgrove | Labor | Denison | 1919–1922; 1925–1931; 1934–1958 |
| Thomas Davies [2] | Labor | Bass | 1929–1942 |
| Edmund Dwyer-Gray | Labor | Denison | 1928–1945 |
| John Evans | Nationalist | Franklin | 1897–1937 |
| Charles Grant | Nationalist | Denison | 1922–1925; 1928–1932 |
| Allan Guy [2] | Labor | Bass | 1916–1929 |
| Edward Hobbs | Nationalist | Darwin | 1916–1934 |
| Claude James | Nationalist | Bass | 1925–1937 |
| Jens Jensen | Labor | Wilmot | 1903–1910; 1922–1925; 1928–1934 |
| Philip Kelly | Labor | Darwin | 1922–1946 |
| Walter Lee | Nationalist | Wilmot | 1909–1946 |
| Joseph Lyons [1] | Labor | Wilmot | 1909–1929 |
| Henry McFie | Nationalist | Darwin | 1925–1934; 1941–1948 |
| John McPhee | Nationalist | Denison | 1919–1934; 1941–1946 |
| Frank Marriott | Nationalist | Darwin | 1922–1946 |
| Fergus Medwin | Labor/Independent | Darwin | 1928–1931 |
| John Ockerby | Nationalist | Bass | 1928–1946 |
| Albert Ogilvie | Labor | Franklin | 1919–1939 |
| Eric Ogilvie | Labor | Wilmot | 1928–1940 |
| Benjamin Pearsall | Independent | Franklin | 1928–1931; 1934–1937 |
| John Piggott | Nationalist | Franklin | 1922–1931 |
| Victor Shaw | Labor | Bass | 1925–1936 |
| William Shoobridge [1] | Labor | Wilmot | 1916–1919; 1922–1928; 1929–1931 |
| John Soundy | Nationalist | Denison | 1925–1946 |
| Henry Thomson | Nationalist | Bass | 1925–1931 |
| Benjamin Watkins | Labor/Independent | Franklin | 1906–1917; 1919–1922; 1925–1934 |
| Walter Woods | Labor | Denison | 1906–1917; 1925–1931 |
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