This is a list of members of the House of Assembly of the Australian state of Tasmania between the 29 March 1906 election and the 30 April 1909 election.
This proved to be the last term of single-member representation, which had served the House for over half a century since its first elections in September 1856. In 1907, a redistribution adopted the five federal electorates which had been created for Tasmania, and used the Hare-Clark proportional representation system to elect six members to each of the seats. The changes became effective at the 1909 election.
The 1906 election resulted in three more Labor members being elected—although one was replacing Labor-turned-Independent member William Lamerton. As most of the retiring or defeated members were Independents, this had little impact on the party balance and enabled John Evans to continue as Premier of Tasmania throughout the term.
Name | Party | Party (post-1909) |
District | Years in office |
---|---|---|---|---|
Charles Allen | Liberal | Anti-Socialist | Westbury | 1903–1909 |
William Bennett | Ministerial | Anti-Socialist | Cambria | 1889–1893; 1903–1909 |
Jonathan Best | Independent | Anti-Socialist | Deloraine | 1894–1897; 1899–1912; 1913 |
Stafford Bird | Ministerial | Anti-Socialist | South Hobart | 1882–1903; 1904–1909 |
George Brettingham-Moore | Liberal | Liberal Democrat | West Hobart | 1903–1909 |
William Brownell | Ministerial | Franklin | 1903–1909 | |
George Burns[2] | Labor | Labor | Queenstown | 1903–1906 |
Edward Crowther | Ministerial | Anti-Socialist | Queenborough | 1878–1912 |
John Davies | Independent | Anti-Socialist | Fingal | 1884–1913 |
John Earle | Labor | Labor | Waratah | 1906–1917 |
John Evans | Ministerial | Anti-Socialist | Kingborough | 1897–1937 |
Alexander Hean | Ministerial | Anti-Socialist | Sorell | 1903–1913; 1916–1925 |
Thomas Hodgman | Ministerial | Anti-Socialist | Monmouth | 1900–1912 |
John Hope | Ministerial | Anti-Socialist | Kentish | 1900–1911 |
Charles Howroyd | Labor | Labor | North Launceston | 1906–1917 |
William Jarvis | Liberal | Liberal Democrat | East Hobart | 1906–1909 |
Jens Jensen | Labor | Labor | George Town | 1903–1910; 1922–1925; 1928–1934 |
George Leatham[1] | Ministerial | Anti-Socialist | New Norfolk | 1891–1903; 1906–1909 |
James Long | Labor | Labor | Lyell | 1903–1910 |
Sir John McCall | Liberal | Liberal Democrat | West Devon | 1888–1893; 1901–1909 |
Charles Mackenzie | Ministerial | Anti-Socialist | Wellington | 1886–1909 |
Richard McKenzie | Ministerial | Anti-Socialist | North Esk | 1906–1913 |
Charles Metz | Ind Labor/Liberal | Liberal Democrat | West Launceston | 1906–1909 |
Henry Murray | Liberal | Anti-Socialist | Latrobe | 1891–1900; 1902–1909 |
Herbert Nicholls | Liberal | Liberal Democrat | Central Hobart | 1900–1909 |
James Ogden | Labor | Labor | Zeehan | 1906–1922 |
Christopher O'Reilly | Ministerial | Ringarooma | 1871–1882; 1906–1909 | |
Herbert Payne | Liberal | Anti-Socialist | Burnie | 1903–1920 |
Frederick Rattle | Ministerial | Anti-Socialist | Glenorchy | 1903–1912 |
Robert Sadler | Liberal | Liberal Democrat | Central Launceston | 1900–1912; 1913–1922 |
Charles Stewart | Ministerial | Anti-Socialist | East Launceston | 1903–1909 |
Don Urquhart | Liberal | Anti-Socialist | Devonport | 1894–1903; 1906–1909 |
Benjamin Watkins[2] | Labor | Labor | Queenstown | 1906–1917; 1919–1922; 1925–1934 |
John Wood | Ministerial | Cumberland | 1903–1909 | |
Walter Woods | Labor | Labor | North Hobart | 1906–1917; 1925–1931 |
Alfred Youl | Ministerial | Longford | 1903–1909 |
Notes
[edit]- 1 In May 1906, Ministerial member George Leatham resigned as part of an agreement to terminate a legal challenge from Julian Brown, the previous MP who Leatham had defeated at the election. Leatham won the resulting by-election on 25 June 1906.
- 2 On 1 November 1906, the Labor member for Queenstown, George Mason Burns, resigned. Labor candidate Benjamin Watkins was elected unopposed on 19 November 1906. At 22, he was the youngest member of the Parliament.
Sources
[edit]- Hughes, Colin A.; Graham, B. D. (1976). Voting for the South Australian, Western Australian and Tasmanian Lower Houses, 1890-1964. Canberra: Australian National University. ISBN 0-7081-1334-6.
- Parliament of Tasmania (2006). The Parliament of Tasmania from 1856