Division of Franklin (state) explained

Franklin
State:	tas
Created:	1909
Mp:	Eric Abetz (Liberal) Meg Brown (Labor) David O'Byrne (Independent) Jacquie Petrusma (Liberal) Nic Street (Liberal) Rosalie Woodruff (Greens) Dean Winter (Labor)
Mp-Party:	Labor (2), Liberal (3), Greens (1), Independent (1)
Namesake:	Sir John Franklin
Electors:	79290
Electors Year:	2018
Area:	6911
Class:	Mixed
Fedgov:	Franklin
Near-N:	Lyons
Near-Ne:	Lyons
Near-Nw:	Braddon
Near-E:	Tasman Sea
Near-W:	Braddon
Near-S:	Southern Ocean
Near-Se:	Southern Ocean
Near-Sw:	Southern Ocean

The electoral division of Franklin is one of the five electorates in the Tasmanian House of Assembly, located in southern Tasmania and includes Bruny Island, Kingston and the eastern shore of the Derwent River. Franklin is named after Sir John Franklin, the Arctic explorer who was Lieutenant-Governor of Van Diemen's Land (1837–43). The division shares its name and boundaries with the federal division of Franklin.

Franklin and the other House of Assembly electoral divisions are each represented by five members elected under the Hare-Clark electoral system.

History and electoral profile

Franklin includes most of the suburbs of Hobart, such as Kingston, Seven Mile Beach and Lauderdale as well as the rural towns of Huonville, Franklin, Cygnet, Margate and Bruny Island. The subantarctic Macquarie Island is also part of the electorate.^[1] The division measures 6,911 km².

Representation

Distribution of seats

As 6-member seat:

Election	Seats won
1909–1912	width=15		width=15		width=15		width=15		width=15		width=15
1912–1913	width=15		width=15		width=15		width=15		width=15		width=15
1913–1916	width=15		width=15		width=15		width=15		width=15		width=15
1916–1919	width=15		width=15		width=15		width=15		width=15		width=15
1919–1922	width=15		width=15		width=15		width=15		width=15		width=15
1922–1925	width=15		width=15		width=15		width=15		width=15		width=15
1925–1928	width=15		width=15		width=15		width=15		width=15		width=15
1928–1931	width=15		width=15		width=15		width=15		width=15		width=15
1931–1934	width=15		width=15		width=15		width=15		width=15		width=15
1934–1937	width=15		width=15		width=15		width=15		width=15		width=15
1937–1941	width=15		width=15		width=15		width=15		width=15		width=15
1941–1946	width=15		width=15		width=15		width=15		width=15		width=15
1946–1948	width=15		width=15		width=15		width=15		width=15		width=15
1948–1950	width=15		width=15		width=15		width=15		width=15		width=15
1950–1955	width=15		width=15		width=15		width=15		width=15		width=15
1955–1956	width=15		width=15		width=15		width=15		width=15		width=15
1956–1959	width=15		width=15		width=15		width=15		width=15		width=15

As 7-member seat:

Election	Seats won
1959–1964	width=15		width=15		width=15		width=15		width=15		width=15		width=15
1964–1969	width=15		width=15		width=15		width=15		width=15		width=15		width=15
1969–1972	width=15		width=15		width=15		width=15		width=15		width=15		width=15
1972–1976	width=15		width=15		width=15		width=15		width=15		width=15		width=15
1976–1979	width=15		width=15		width=15		width=15		width=15		width=15		width=15
1979–1982	width=15		width=15		width=15		width=15		width=15		width=15		width=15
1982–1986	width=15		width=15		width=15		width=15		width=15		width=15		width=15
1986–1989	width=15		width=15		width=15		width=15		width=15		width=15		width=15
1989–1992	width=15		width=15		width=15		width=15		width=15		width=15		width=15
1992–1996	width=15		width=15		width=15		width=15		width=15		width=15		width=15
1996–1998	width=15		width=15		width=15		width=15		width=15		width=15		width=15

As 5-member seat:

Election	Seats won
1998–2002	width=15		width=15		width=15		width=15		width=15
2002–2006	width=15		width=15		width=15		width=15		width=15
2006–2010	width=15		width=15		width=15		width=15		width=15
2010–2014	width=15		width=15		width=15		width=15		width=15
2014–2018	width=15		width=15		width=15		width=15		width=15
2018–2021	width=15		width=15		width=15		width=15		width=15
2021–2024	width=15		width=15		width=15		width=15		width=15

Legend:

width=15		Labor
width=15		Liberal
width=15		Greens
width=15		Nationalist
width=15		Liberal
width=15		Anti-Socialist
width=15		Country
width=15		Independent

Members for Franklin

Year	Member		Party	Member		Party	Member		Party	Member		Party	Member		Party	Member		Party	Member		Party
1909		David Dicker	Labor			Thomas Hodgman	Anti-Socialist		John Earle	Labor			Norman Ewing	Anti-Socialist			Alexander Hean	Anti-Socialist			(Sir) John Evans	Anti-Socialist
1912				George Martin	Labor		Liberal				Liberal			Liberal
1913	Arthur Cotton					Liberal
1915							Daniel Ryan	Liberal
1916	William Shoobridge			Labor	Frederick Burbury	Liberal	Alexander Hean	Liberal
1917								Nationalist			Nationalist		Nationalist		Nationalist
1917						Arthur Cotton		Nationalist
1919	Albert Ogilvie			Labor		Benjamin Watkins		Labor	William Dixon	Nationalist
1922										Independent		Country
1922			William Pearce		Labor			Peter Murdoch	Nationalist	John Piggott	Country
1922		William Shoobridge	Labor
1925		Benjamin Watkins	Labor			Independent					Independent			William Sheridan		Labor
1928					Benjamin Pearsall	Independent		Nationalist			Henry Baker	Nationalist
1931						Independent		John Dwyer	Labor	Alfred Seabrook			Nationalist
1934			Edward Brooker		Labor					Benjamin Pearsall			Independent
1937						Basil Plummer	Labor			George Doyle			Nationalist
1939	Francis McDermott	Labor
1940				Vincent Shoobridge						Nationalist
1941	Henry Hope	Labor		Thomas McKinley		Labor	Sir John McPhee			Nationalist
1946	Bill Neilson	Labor				George Gray	Independent				Reg Wright	Liberal		Tim Jackson	Liberal
1948			John Brown	Labor
1948			Charles Hand	Labor
1949					Archibald Park					Liberal
1950							Thomas Pearsall				Liberal
1955					Mabel Miller	Liberal
1956			Brian Crawford	Labor
1959			Eric Barnard	Labor								Bill Young	Liberal
1960															Independent
1962								Lynda Heaven	Labor
1964					Terry Martin	Labor			Jack Frost	Labor					Doug Clark	Liberal
1966							Eric Iles	Liberal
1969					Doug Lowe	Labor	Stanley Gough	Liberal			Geoff Pearsall	Liberal
1972							John Beattie	Liberal
1976									Ray Sherry	Labor			Steve Gilmour	Liberal
1977	Bill McKinnon	Labor
1979	Dick Adams	Labor							Michael Aird	Labor			John Cleary	Liberal
1979			Bill McKinnon	Labor
1981															Independent
1982	Ken Wriedt	Labor
1986				Gerry Bates	Greens				Fran Bladel	Labor				Peter Hodgman	Liberal	Nick Evers	Liberal
1988			John Cleary			Liberal
1989								Michael Aird			Labor
1990	Paul Lennon	Labor					Brian Davison					Liberal
1992
1995				Mike Foley	Greens			John Sheppard			Labor
1996							Paula Wriedt	Labor					Bruce Goodluck			Independent
1998				Matt Smith	Liberal
2001			Martin McManus			Liberal
2002									Neville Oliver	Labor
2002				Nick McKim	Greens	Lara Giddings			Labor	Will Hodgman	Liberal
2006
2008	Ross Butler	Labor
2009			Daniel Hulme				Labor
2010	David O'Byrne	Labor					Jacquie Petrusma	Liberal
2014		Paul Harriss	Liberal
2015	Rosalie Woodruff			Greens
2016		Nic Street	Liberal
2018			David O'Byrne		Labor	Alison Standen			Labor
2020		Nic Street								Liberal
2021						Dean Winter			Labor
2021											Independent Labor
2022					Dean Young		Liberal
2024											Independent
2024					Jacquie Petrusma		Liberal						Eric Abetz	Liberal			Meg Brown	Labor

Election results

See main article: Electoral results for the Division of Franklin (state).

See also

• Tasmanian Legislative Council

External links

• Parliament of Tasmania
• Tasmanian Electoral Commission - House of Assembly

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Notes and References

1. http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/07/01/1023864704939.html Sydney Morning Herald