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Tasmanian Legislative Council The Tasmanian Legislative Council is the upper house of the Parliament of Tasmania in Australia. It is one of the two chambers of the Parliament, the other being the House of Assembly. Both houses sit in Parliament House in the state capital, H ...
between 1957 and 1963. 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


Members


Notes

: In November 1958,
Elliot Lillico Alexander Elliot Davidson Lillico (5 September 1905 – 1 November 1994) was an Australian politician. He was an independent member of the Tasmanian Legislative Council for the seat of Meander from 1943 to 1958 and a Liberal Party of Austral ...
, the member for
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, resigned. Charles Best won the resulting by-election on 6 December 1958. : On 7 December 1958, George Flowers, the member for
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, died. Oliver Gregory won the resulting by-election on 14 February 1959. : On 21 April 1959, Geoffrey Green, the member for
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, died.
Louis Bisdee Louis Fenn Bisdee (22 September 1910 – 16 November 2010) was an Australian politician. Career He was born in Tasmania. In 1959 he was elected to the Tasmanian Legislative Council as the independent member for Monmouth. He served until he ...
won the resulting by-election on 4 July 1959. : On 25 April 1960, Neil Campbell, the member for Tamar, died. Liberal candidate Daniel Hitchcock won the resulting by-election on 9 July 1960. : In November 1961,
John Orchard John Orchard (15 November 1928 – 3 November 1995) was an English actor. He is probably best remembered for playing Australian anesthesiologist "Ugly John" Black in the first season of ''M*A*S*H''. Career Orchard guest starred as Sgt. Walte ...
, the member for
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, resigned. Geoffrey Foot won the resulting by-election on 10 December 1961.


Sources

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