Members of the Tasmanian Legislative Council, 2017–2023 explained

This is a list of members of the Tasmanian Legislative Council between 2017 and 2023. Terms of the Legislative Council did not coincide with Legislative Assembly elections, and members served six year terms, with a number of members facing election each year.

Elections

Date Electorates
Launceston
Murchison; Rumney
4 November 2017 Pembroke (by-election)
Hobart
Prosser
Montgomery
Nelson; Pembroke
Huon
Rosevears
Derwent
Mersey; Windermere
Elwick
McIntyre; Huon (by-election)
10 September 2022 Pembroke (by-election)

Members

NamePartyDivisionTerm in office
Independent 2011–present
Independent 2014–2020
Independent 2003–2021
2021–present
2022–present
Labor 2011–present
Independent 2002–2020
Independent 2005–present
Independent 2009–present
Liberal 2009–2017
Independent 2001–2018
Independent 2022–present
Liberal 2013–present
Liberal 2018–present
Labor 2017–present
Liberal 2020–present
Independent 2004–present
Labor/Independent 2020–2022
Labor 2017–2022
Independent 2012–present
Independent 2019–present
Independent 1995–2019
Labor 2016–present

On 5 August 2017, new electoral boundaries came into effect which abolished the seats of Apsley and Western Tiers. The members for those divisions, Tania Rattray and Greg Hall, were both allocated the new seat of McIntyre until the expiry of Hall's term in April 2018.

Pembroke Liberal MLC Vanessa Goodwin resigned due to terminal cancer on 2 October 2017. Labor candidate Jo Siejka won the resulting by-election on 4 November.

Liberal candidate Jane Howlett won the new seat of Prosser at the 2018 Tasmanian Legislative Council periodic election, while incumbent independent Hobart MLC Rob Valentine was re-elected.

Independent candidate Meg Webb won the seat of Nelson at the 2019 Tasmanian Legislative Council periodic election, while Labor MLC Jo Siejka (Pembroke) and Liberal MLC Leonie Hiscutt (Montgomery) were re-elected.

At the 2020 Tasmanian Legislative Council periodic election, Liberal candidate Jo Palmer replaced retiring independent MLC Kerry Finch in Rosevears, while Labor candidate Bastian Seidel defeated incumbent independent MLC Robert Armstrong in Huon.

At the 2021 Tasmanian Legislative Council periodic election, Liberal candidate Nick Duigan replaced retiring independent MLC Ivan Dean in Windermere, while Labor candidate Craig Farrell (Derwent) was re-elected.

On 23 August 2021, Labor MLC Bastian Seidel resigned from the Labor caucus and resigned from the Legislative Council in January 2022. At the by-election held on 7 May 2022, Independent candidate Dean Harriss was elected.

On 2 August 2022, Labor MLC for Pembroke Jo Siejka resigned from the Legislative Council. At the by-election held on 10 September 2022, Labor candidate Luke Edmunds was elected.

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