Members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly, 1946–1948 explained

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.

NamePartyDivisionYears in office
1946–1948; 1956–1972
1941–1948
Labor 1946–1964
Bill BeattieLiberal Bass 1946–1950; 1954–1979
Liberal 1946–1975
Labor Darwin 1946–1964
Labor Franklin 1934–1948
Labor Franklin 1948
Liberal 1922–1955
Liberal Darwin 1934–1951
Labor Denison 1919–1922; 1925–1931;
1934–1958
Labor Denison 1922–1928; 1934–1948
Labor Franklin 1931–1962
Labor Wilmot 1946–1974
Liberal Darwin 1946–1956
Independent Franklin 1946–1950
Labor Bass 1937–1950; 1958–1959
Liberal Franklin 1946–1964
Liberal/Independent Darwin 1925–1934; 1941–1948
Labor Bass 1936–1956; 1957–1969
Liberal Bass 1946–1961
Labor Franklin 1946–1977
Labor Wilmot 1943–1949
Labor Darwin 1946–1975
Labor Wilmot 1941–1956
Liberal Denison 1946–1959; 1959–1969
Independent Denison 1946–1965
Labor Bass 1946–1961
Labor Denison 1941–1959
Liberal Franklin 1946–1949
Liberal Wilmot 1946–1950

Notes

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

. Colin Hughes. Graham, B. D.. Voting for the South Australian, Western Australian and Tasmanian Lower Houses, 1890-1964. 1976. Australian National University. Canberra. 0-7081-1334-6.