This is a list of members of the

Tasmanian House of Assembly The House of Assembly, or Lower House, is one of the two chambers of the Parliament of Tasmania in Australia. The other is the Legislative Council or Upper House. It sits in Parliament House in the state capital, Hobart. The Assembly has 25 m ...

between the 1900 election and the 1903 election. Party affiliations were relatively loose during the period, although a Liberal grouping had formed over the 1890s around Sir

Edward Braddon Sir Edward Nicholas Coventry Braddon (11 June 1829 – 2 February 1904) was an Australian politician who served as Premier of Tasmania from 1894 to 1899, and was a Member of the First Australian Parliament in the House of Representatives. Bradd ...

, the former

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, and

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. A separate grouping, generally described as Ministerial, supported

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, who was Premier for the entire parliamentary term. Only one

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candidate ran in the election, in only the second contest entered by the party. The 1900 election was the second to use a limited version of the Hare-Clark system within

Hobart Hobart ( ; Nuennonne/Palawa kani: ''nipaluna'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian island state of Tasmania. Home to almost half of all Tasmanians, it is the least-populated Australian state capital city, and second-small ...

and Launceston, which were given 6 and 4 seats respectively, while still using

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single-member constituencies elsewhere in the state. Following this term, the system largely returned to its pre–1897 state, but at the 1909 election, the entire State was redivided into five electorates using the Hare-Clark system.

Notes

: On 17 April 1900, Liberal member for

, Edward Miles, resigned. Liberal candidate

Herbert Nicholls Sir Herbert Nicholls (11 August 1868 – 11 November 1940) was an Australian judge and politician, who was Chief Justice of Tasmania from 1914 to 1937, and as an independent member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly from 1900 to 1909. In parli ...

won the resulting by-election on 15 May 1900. : On 14 November 1900, Ministerial member for

, John Bradley, died. Independent candidate

Charles Hoggins Charles Davenport Hoggins (27 May 1862 – 28 April 1923) was an Australian politician. He was born in Hobart. In 1898 he was elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly as the member for Hobart. He lost his seat in March 1900 but returned in ...

won the resulting by-election on 5 December 1900. : On 29 March 1901, Liberal member for

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, Sir

, resigned to contest the inaugural federal election. Liberal candidate Sir John McCall won the resulting by-election on 30 April 1901. : In September 1901, Independent member for Launceston,

Alexander Fowler Alexander Richard Fowler (19 September 1847 – 22 July 1911) was an Australian politician. Fowler was born in Leamington Spa in Warwickshire in 1847. In January 1893 he was elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly The House of Assembly, ...

, resigned. Liberal candidate

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won the resulting by-election on 4 October 1901. : On 3 April 1902, the Liberal member for Latrobe, William Aikenhead, died. Liberal candidate

Henry Murray Henry Alexander Murray (May 13, 1893 – June 23, 1988) was an American psychologist at Harvard University, where from 1959 to 1962 he conducted a series of psychologically damaging and purposefully abusive experiments on minors and underg ...

was elected unopposed on 19 April 1902. : In March 1902, Ministerial member for Launceston,

William Hartnoll William Hartnoll (17 April 1841 – 11 July 1932) was an Australian politician. Born in Longford, Tasmania, he was educated at Launceston Grammar School before becoming a shopkeeper, auctioneer and landowner. In 1884 he was elected to the Tas ...

, resigned to contest a federal by-election following the death of Frederick Piesse. Liberal candidate

David Storrer David Storrer (24 November 1854 – 13 November 1935) was an Australian politician. Born in Legana, Tasmania, he was educated at Chalmers Church Grammar School before becoming a cabinet maker and furniture warehouseman. He served three sepa ...

won the resulting by-election on 22 April 1902. Ironically, Storrer himself resigned the seat several months after the following election to defeat Hartnoll in

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. : On 26 May 1902, the Liberal member for

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, Frank Archer, died. At the resulting by-election on 11 June 1902, Liberal candidate Thomas Massey was elected unopposed.

Sources

* * Parliament of Tasmania (2006)
The Parliament of Tasmania from 1856
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