List of Tasmanian House of Assembly countbacks explained

This is a list of casual vacancies in the Tasmanian House of Assembly since 1965. Casual vacancies in the House of Assembly are filled by a countback of the votes of the departing member.

Date	Electorate	Outgoing member	Party		Reason for vacancy	Incoming member	Party
4 October 2023	Franklin	Elise Archer			Independent	Resigned as an Independent after quitting the Liberal Party a week earlier after being forced to resign as Minister	Simon Behrakis			Liberal
13 July 2023	Franklin	Cassy O'Connor			Greens	Resigned as Greens leader	Vica Bayley
25 July 2022	Franklin	Jacquie Petrusma			Liberal	Resigned	Dean Young			Liberal
8 April 2022	Bass	Peter Gutwein			Liberal	Resigned as Premier	Simon Wood			Liberal
10 February 2022	Bass	Sarah Courtney			Liberal	Resigned	Lara Alexander			Liberal
14 March 2021	Braddon	Adam Brooks			Liberal	Resigned	Felix Ellis			Liberal
27 July 2020	Braddon	Joan Rylah			Liberal	Resigned	Felix Ellis			Liberal
20 January 2020	Franklin	Will Hodgman			Liberal	Resigned as Premier	Nic Street			Liberal
25 August 2019	Clark	Scott Bacon			Labor	Resigned with his replacement quitting the Labor Party and entering Parliament as an Independent	Madeleine Ogilvie			Independent
25 February 2019	Lyons	Rene Hidding			Liberal	Resigned	John Tucker			Liberal
12 February 2019	Braddon	Adam Brooks			Liberal	Resigned	Joan Rylah			Liberal
17 March 2017	Braddon	Bryan Green			Labor	Resigned as opposition leader	Shane Broad			Labor
3 March 2016	Franklin	Paul Harriss			Liberal	Resigned	Nic Street			Liberal
17 August 2015	Franklin	Nick McKim			Greens	Resigned to accept Senate appointment	Rosalie Woodruff
9 June 2015	Bass	Kim Booth			Greens	Resigned as Greens leader	Andrea Dawkins			Greens
26 May 2011	Denison	David Bartlett			Labor	Resigned as Premier	Graeme Sturges			Labor
9 February 2009	Franklin	Paula Wriedt			Labor	Resigned after being dropped as Minister	Daniel Hulme			Labor
28 July 2008	Denison	Peg Putt			Greens	Resigned as Greens leader	Cassy O'Connor			Greens
27 May 2008	Franklin	Paul Lennon			Labor	Resigned as Premier	Ross Butler			Labor
10 May 2005	Lyons	Ken Bacon			Labor	Resigned as Minister	Heather Butler			Labor
1 April 2004	Denison	Jim Bacon			Labor	Resigned as Premier due to ill health	David Bartlett			Labor
22 April 2002	Franklin	Fran Bladel			Labor	Resigned in unsuccessful bid for Legislative Council seat of Huon at 2002 periodic elections	Neville Oliver			Labor
19 October 2001	Franklin	Peter Hodgman			Liberal	Resigned in unsuccessful bid for Franklin at the 2001 federal election	Martin McManus			Liberal
21 August 2001	Denison	Ray Groom			Liberal	Resigned	Michael Hodgman			Liberal
14 March 2000	Bass	Frank Madill			Liberal	Resigned due to ill health	David Fry			Liberal
15 July 1997	Braddon	Michael Field			Labor	Resigned	Mike Gard			Labor
15 July 1997	Braddon	Roger Groom			Liberal	Resigned	Carole Cains			Liberal
15 December 1995	Lyons	Robin Gray			Liberal	Resigned	Denise Swan			Liberal
15 May 1995	Franklin	Gerry Bates			Greens	Resigned in unsuccessful bid for Legislative Council seat of Queenborough at the 1995 periodic elections	Mike Foley			Greens
10 April 1995	Franklin	Michael Aird			Labor	Resigned in successful bid for Legislative Council seat of Derwent at the 1995 periodic elections	John Sheppard			Labor
26 February 1993	Denison	Bob Brown			Greens	Resigned	Peg Putt			Greens
15 October 1990	Franklin	Ken Wriedt			Labor	Resigned	Paul Lennon			Labor
6 August 1990	Franklin	Nick Evers			Liberal	Resigned	Brian Davison			Liberal
15 February 1990	Denison	John Bennett			Liberal	Resigned	Chris Gibson			Liberal
14 November 1988	Franklin	Geoff Pearsall			Liberal	Resigned	John Cleary			Liberal
29 September 1987	Denison	Geoff Davis			Liberal	Resigned	John Barker			Liberal
14 July 1987	Lyons	Darrel Baldock			Labor	Resigned to return to football coaching	Chris Batt			Labor
10 August 1984	Bass	Michael Barnard			Labor	Resigned	Peter Patmore			Labor
25 June 1984	Denison	John Devine			Labor	Resigned	Bob Graham			Labor
25 June 1984	Denison	Max Bingham			Liberal	Resigned	Carmel Holmes			Liberal
4 January 1983	Denison	Norm Sanders			Democrat	Resigned	Bob Brown			Green Independents
8 September 1980	Denison	Neil Batt			Labor	Resigned	Bob Graham			Labor
28 September 1979	Franklin	Eric Barnard			Labor	Resigned	Bill McKinnon			Labor
12 December 1977	Franklin	Bill Neilson			Labor	Resigned	Bill McKinnon			Labor
10 July 1975	Wilmot	Angus Bethune			Liberal	Resigned	Ian Braid			Liberal
16 May 1975	Braddon	Lloyd Costello			Labor	Resigned	John Coughlan			Labor
12 April 1975	Braddon	Eric Reece			Labor	Resigned	Joseph Britton			Labor
17 August 1974	Denison	Kevin Corby			Labor	Resigned	John Green			Labor
26 July 1974	Wilmot	Roy Fagan			Labor	Resigned	Charles Batt			Labor
26 July 1974	Bass	Allan Foster			Labor	Resigned	Harry Holgate			Labor
27 April 1974	Denison	Merv Everett			Labor	Resigned in successful bid for the Australian Senate at the 1974 federal election	Ian Cole			Labor
25 October 1968	Bass	John Steer			Liberal	Died in office	James Henty			Liberal
27 October 1966	Franklin	Thomas Pearsall			Liberal	Resigned in successful bid for seat of Franklin at the 1966 federal election	Eric Iles			Liberal
10 July 1965	Denison	Rex Townley			Liberal	Resigned	George Deas Brown			Liberal

References

• Results of All Countbacks to Fill House of Assembly Casual Vacancies, under the Tasmanian Electoral Act, for the 45 years from 1965 to 2011

See also

• Members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly