Members Of The Tasmanian House Of Assembly, 1922–1925
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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 10 June 1922 election and the 3 June 1925 election. The fledgling Country Party got five members elected, including two former Nationalists, but by the end of the term the party had all but merged into the Nationalist Party. A new Liberal Party emerged before the 1925 election, counting the support of three MHAs.


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: Labor MHA for
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, William Pearce, died 16 days into his term on 26 June 1922. A recount on 11 July 1922 elected Labor candidate William Shoobridge. : Labor MHA for Darwin,
James Ogden James Ernest Ogden (8 March 1868 – 5 February 1932) was an Australian politician who was elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly and the Australian Senate. Early life Ogden was born at Durdidwarrah, near Geelong, Victoria and educated at ...
, resigned to contest a seat on the
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on 1 November 1922. A recount on 14 November 1922 elected Labor candidate Philip Kelly. : Nationalist MHA for Bass, John Hayes, was appointed by joint sitting to the
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, and hence resigned. A recount on 24 September 1923 elected Nationalist candidate
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. : Nationalist MHA for Denison, Robert Snowden resigned on 1 July 1924. A recount on 23 July 1924 elected Nationalist candidate Leslie Payne, the son of long-standing former member
Herbert Payne Herbert James Mockford Payne (17 August 186626 February 1944) was an Australian politician. He served as a Senator for Tasmania from 1920 to 1938 and as a member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly from 1903 to 1920. Payne was born in Hobart and ...
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Sources

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