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 2 May 1959 election and the 2 May 1964 election. Prior to this election, each of the five Tasmanian seats had been expanded from 6 to 7 members to provide an odd number of members, due mainly to a series of

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Notes

: Liberal MHA for Denison, Sir Archibald Park, died on 18 November 1959. A recount on 4 December 1959 resulted in the election of former Liberal MHA

Horace Strutt Horace William Strutt, (19 December 1903 – 5 November 1985) was an Australian Army officer and politician. He was born in Hobart. He was elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly in 1946 as a Liberal member for Denison. On 13 April 1955 he ...

. : Liberal MHA for

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Fred Marriott Fred Marriott (31 December 1872, Needham, Massachusetts - 28 April 1956) was an American race car driver. In 1906, he set the world land speed record at 127.659 mph (205.5 km/h) at the Daytona Beach Road Course, while driving the Stanl ...

, resigned on 30 October 1961 to contest the

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for the seat of

, but was unsuccessful. A recount on 10 November 1961 resulted in the election of Liberal candidate

James McGowen James Sinclair Taylor McGowen (16 August 1855 – 7 April 1922) was an Australian politician. He served as premier of New South Wales from 1910 to 1913, the first member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) to hold the position, and was a key f ...

. : Independent MHA for Bass,

Reg Turnbull Reginald John David "Spot" Turnbull (21 February 1908 – 17 July 2006) was an Australian politician. He was a member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly from 1946 to 1961 (1946–1959 for the Labor Party, 1959–1961 as an Independent), then a ...

, resigned on 30 October 1961 to contest an

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seat in the

, in which he was successful. A recount on 10 November 1961 resulted in the election of Labor candidate

Wallace Fraser Wallace Harcourt Fraser was an Australian politician. In 1961 he was elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly as a Labor member for Bass in a recount following Reg Turnbull Reginald John David "Spot" Turnbull (21 February 1908 – 17 July ...

. : Liberal MHA for Bass, John Steer, resigned on 22 November 1961 to contest the

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seat of

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, but was unsuccessful. A recount on 1 December 1961 resulted in the election of Liberal candidate

Max Bushby Maxwell Holmes Bushby (19 July 1927 – 21 August 1994) was an Australian politician. He was elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly in 1961 as a Liberal member for Bass. He was Chair of Committees from 1966 to 1972 and Speaker from 1982 to ...

. : Labor MHA for

Franklin Franklin may refer to: People * Franklin (given name) * Franklin (surname) * Franklin (class), a member of a historical English social class Places Australia * Franklin, Tasmania, a township * Division of Franklin, federal electoral d ...

John Dwyer John Dwyer may refer to: * John Dwyer (Australian judge) (1879–1966), Australian judge * John Dwyer (baseball) (active 1882), American baseball player * John Dwyer (field hockey) (born 1928), Australian Olympic hockey player * John Dwyer (medici ...

, died on 17 January 1962. At a recount on 5 February 1962, former Labor MHA (now Independent) Brian Crawford was elected, but he was disqualified on the grounds of non-residence. A further recount on 9 March 1962 elected

Lynda Heaven Lynda Agnes Victoria Heaven (12 April 1902 – 3 April 1987) was an Australian politician. She was the first female Labor Party member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly, and represented the electorate of Franklin between 1962 and 1964. She ...

, the first Labor woman to be elected to the House.

Sources

* * Parliament of Tasmania (2006)
The Parliament of Tasmania from 1856
{{DEFAULTSORT:Members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly, 1959-1964 Members of Tasmanian parliaments by term 20th-century Australian politicians