Members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly, 1946–1948

This is a list of members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly between the 23 November 1946 election and the 21 August 1948 election. The Nationalist Party had dissolved and its members had joined the new Liberal Party by the time of the election.

Name Party Division Years in office
Alexander AtkinsLaborBass1946–1948; 1956–1972
Charles AtkinsLiberalDenison1941–1948
Charley AylettLaborDarwin1946–1964
Bill BeattieLiberalBass1946–1950; 1954–1979
Angus BethuneLiberalWilmot1946–1975
Carrol BramichLaborDarwin1946–1964
Hon Edward Brooker[1]LaborFranklin1934–1948
John Harold Brown[1]LaborFranklin1948
Neil CampbellLiberalWilmot1922–1955
Jack ChamberlainLiberalDarwin1934–1951
Hon Robert CosgroveLaborDenison1919–1922; 1925–1931;
1934–1958
Charles CulleyLaborDenison1922–1928; 1934–1948
John DwyerLaborFranklin1931–1962
Hon Roy FaganLaborWilmot1946–1974
John FidlerLiberalDarwin1946–1956
George GrayIndependentFranklin1946–1950
Hon Eric HowroydLaborBass1937–1950; 1958–1959
Tim JacksonLiberalFranklin1946–1964
Henry McFieLiberal/IndependentDarwin1925–1934; 1941–1948
Hon John MaddenLaborBass1936–1956; 1957–1969
Fred MarriottLiberalBass1946–1961
Bill NeilsonLaborFranklin1946–1977
Peter PikeLaborWilmot1943–1949
Hon Eric ReeceLaborDarwin1946–1975
Lancelot SpurrLaborWilmot1941–1956
Horace StruttLiberalDenison1946–1959; 1959–1969
Rex TownleyIndependentDenison1946–1965
Dr Reg TurnbullLaborBass1946–1961
Hon Alfred WhiteLaborDenison1941–1959
Reg WrightLiberalFranklin1946–1949
Robert RobertsonLiberalWilmot1946–1950

Notes

1 Labor MHA for Franklin, Edward Brooker, died on 18 June 1948. A recount on 28 June 1948 resulted in the election of Labor candidate John Harold Brown—as it turned out, Brown served the shortest term of any MHA, of just seven weeks.

Sources

  • 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
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