Members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly, 1922–1925

This is a list of members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly between the 10 June 1922 election and the 3 June 1925 election. The fledgling Country Party got five members elected, including two former Nationalists, but by the end of the term the party had all but merged into the Nationalist Party. A new Liberal Party emerged before the 1925 election, counting the support of three MHAs.

Name	Party	Division	Years in office
George Becker	Labor	Bass	1912–1931; 1934–1941
James Belton	Labor	Darwin	1909–1931
Albert Bendall	Country/Nationalist	Wilmot	1922–1925
Ernest Blyth	Country/Nationalist	Wilmot	1913–1925
Neil Campbell	Nationalist	Wilmot	1922–1955
John Cleary	Labor	Denison	1916–1928
Charles Culley	Labor	Denison	1922–1928; 1934–1948
John Evans	Nationalist	Franklin	1897–1937
Richard Franks	Country	Darwin	1922–1925
Charles Grant	Nationalist	Denison	1922–1925; 1928–1932
Allan Guy	Labor	Bass	1916–1929
John Hayes^[3]	Nationalist	Bass	1913–1923
Alexander Hean	Nationalist	Franklin	1903–1913; 1916–1925
Edward Hobbs	Country/Liberal	Darwin	1916–1934
James Hurst	Labor	Darwin	1910–1912; 1919–1926
Jens Jensen	Ind. Labor	Bass	1903–1910; 1922–1925; 1928–1934
Philip Kelly^[2]	Labor	Darwin	1922–1946
Walter Lee	Nationalist/Liberal	Wilmot	1909–1946
Joseph Lyons	Labor	Wilmot	1909–1929
John McPhee	Nationalist	Denison	1919–1934; 1941–1946
Frank Marriott	Nationalist	Darwin	1922–1946
Alexander Marshall	Nationalist	Bass	1914–1925
Peter Murdoch	Nationalist/Independent	Franklin	1922–1928
James Newton	Nationalist/Liberal	Bass	1917–1928
James Ogden^[2]	Labor	Darwin	1906–1922
Albert Ogilvie	Labor	Franklin	1919–1939
Michael O'Keefe	Labor	Wilmot	1912–1926
Leslie Payne^[4]	Nationalist	Denison	1924–1925
William Pearce^[1]	Labor	Franklin	1922
John Piggott	Country/Independent	Franklin	1922–1931
William Sheridan	Labor	Denison	1909–1913; 1914–1928
George Shields^[3]	Nationalist	Bass	1923–1925
William Shoobridge^[1]	Labor	Franklin	1916–1919; 1922–1928; 1929–1931
Robert Snowden^[4]	Nationalist	Denison	1919–1924

Notes

¹ Labor MHA for Franklin, William Pearce, died 16 days into his term on 26 June 1922. A recount on 11 July 1922 elected Labor candidate William Shoobridge.

² Labor MHA for Darwin, James Ogden, resigned to contest a seat on the Australian Senate on 1 November 1922. A recount on 14 November 1922 elected Labor candidate Philip Kelly.

³ Nationalist MHA for Bass, John Hayes, was appointed by joint sitting to the Australian Senate, and hence resigned. A recount on 24 September 1923 elected Nationalist candidate George Shields.

⁴ Nationalist MHA for Denison, Robert Snowden resigned on 1 July 1924. A recount on 23 July 1924 elected Nationalist candidate Leslie Payne, the son of long-standing former member Herbert Payne.

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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