This is a list of members of the

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, ...

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

Members

: 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 Tania Verene Rattray (born 28 March 1958) is an independent member of the Tasmanian Legislative Council (upper house) in the division of McIntyre. Rattray was educated at Winnaleah Area School and Scottsdale High School. Before becoming a f ...

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 Vanessa Goodwin (22 April 1969 – 3 March 2018) was an Australian politician. She was the Liberal Party member for the seat of Pembroke in the Tasmanian Legislative Council from the Pembroke by-election on 1 August 2009 until her resignation ...

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 Jane Howlett is an Australian politician, who has been a Liberal member of the Tasmanian Legislative Council for the division of Prosser since 2018. After Peter Gutwein became Premier in January 2020, Howlett was promoted to his cabinet as M ...

won the new seat of

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at the

2018 Tasmanian Legislative Council periodic election Periodic elections for the Tasmanian Legislative Council were held on 5 May 2018. The two seats up for elections were Hobart and Prosser. Hobart was previously contested in 2012. Prosser was a new division created in the 2017 redistribution, ...

, while incumbent independent Hobart MLC

Rob Valentine Robert Henry Francis Valentine (born 15 June 1950) is an Australian politician. He was the Lord Mayor of the City of Hobart local government area, in the State of Tasmania, Australia, from 1999 to 2011. In 2012, he was elected to the Tasma ...

was re-elected. : Independent candidate

Meg Webb Megan Therese Webb (born 6 October 1974) is an Australian politician and community sector worker. At the periodic elections in May 2019, she was elected to the Tasmanian Legislative Council as the independent member for Nelson, replacing long-ti ...

won the seat of

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at the 2019 Tasmanian Legislative Council periodic election, while Labor MLC Jo Siejka ( Pembroke) and Liberal MLC

Leonie Hiscutt Leonie Anne Hiscutt (born 14 January 1959) is an Australian politician, who has been a member of the Tasmanian Legislative Council for the division of Montgomery since 2013. Hiscutt was a farmer and businesswoman prior to entering Parliament. ...

( Montgomery) were re-elected. : At the 2020 Tasmanian Legislative Council periodic election, Liberal candidate

Jo Palmer Joanne Lesley Palmer (née Dick, formerly Cornish; born 10 April 1971) is an Australian politician and former television journalist and newsreader. Palmer was born in Christchurch, New Zealand, and moved to Tasmania as a baby after being adopt ...

replaced retiring independent MLC

Kerry Finch Kerry Finch (born 4 November 1948) is a former member of the Tasmanian Legislative Council or upper house for the electoral division of Rosevears, which mainly comprises the western side of the Tamar River valley from West Launceston up to Gre ...

in Rosevears, while Labor candidate

Bastian Seidel Bastian Manfred Seidel (born 23 April 1975) is an Australian politician and medical doctor. Seidel was born in Kamen, a small town in the Ruhr Valley region of Germany, and undertook preliminary medical training in South Africa and Germany, befo ...

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 Ivan Noel Dean (born 21 April 1945) is an Australian politician. He was an independent member of the Tasmanian Legislative Council from 2003 to 2021, representing the electorate of Windermere. He also served as Mayor of Launceston from 2005 t ...

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, while Labor candidate Craig Farrell ( Derwent) was re-elected. : On 23 August 2021, Labor MLC

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 Dean Andrew Harriss is an Australian politician. At a May 2022 by-election, he was elected to the Tasmanian Legislative Council as the independent member for Huon, following the resignation of Labor-turned-independent MLC Bastian Seidel Bast ...

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 Luke Edmunds is an Australian politician, who was elected to the Tasmanian Legislative Council as the Labor Labour or labor may refer to: * Childbirth, the delivery of a baby * Labour (human activity), or work ** Manual labour, physical work * ...

was elected.

Sources

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