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Members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly, 1925–1928

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This is a list of members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly between the 3 June 1925 election and the 30 May 1928 election. The Liberal grouping was a minor party which had split from the Nationalists.

Name Party Division Years in office
George Becker Labor Bass 1912–1931; 1934–1941
James Belton Labor Darwin 1909–1931
Norman Cameron Independent Wilmot 1893–1894; 1897–1899;
1912–1913; 1925–1928
Neil Campbell Nationalist Wilmot 1922–1955
John Cleary Labor Denison 1916–1928
Robert Cosgrove Labor Denison 1919–1922; 1925–1931;
1934–1958
Charles Culley Labor Denison 1922–1928; 1934–1948
John Evans Nationalist Franklin 1897–1937
Allan Guy Labor Bass 1916–1929
Edward Hobbs Liberal/Nationalist Darwin 1916–1934
James Hurst[1] Labor Darwin 1910–1912; 1919–1926
Claude James Liberal/Nationalist Bass 1925–1937
Philip Kelly Labor Darwin 1922–1946
Henry Lane[1] Labor Darwin 1926–1928; 1937–1946
Walter Lee Liberal/Nationalist Wilmot 1909–1946
Joseph Lyons 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
Peter Murdoch Independent Franklin 1922–1928
James Newton Liberal/Nationalist Bass 1917–1928
Albert Ogilvie Labor Franklin 1919–1939
Michael O'Keefe[2] Labor Wilmot 1912–1926
John Palamountain[2] Labor Wilmot 1926–1928
John Piggott Independent/Nationalist Franklin 1922–1931
Victor Shaw Labor Bass 1925–1936
William Sheridan Labor Franklin 1909–1913; 1914–1928
William Shoobridge Labor Wilmot 1916–1919; 1922–1928;
1929–1931
John Soundy Nationalist Denison 1925–1946
Henry Thomson Nationalist Bass 1925–1931
Benjamin Watkins Labor Franklin 1906–1917; 1919–1922;
1925–1934
Walter Woods Labor Denison 1906–1917; 1925–1931

Notes

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1 Labor MHA for Darwin, James Hurst, resigned in June 1926. A recount on 30 June 1926 elected Labor candidate Henry Lane.
2 Labor MHA for Wilmot and Speaker of the House, Michael O'Keefe, was killed in a railway accident on 2 October 1926. A recount on 22 October 1926 elected Labor candidate John Palamountain.

Sources

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  • 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