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 April 1903 election and the 29 March 1906 election. The Hare-Clark system being trialled in Hobart and Launceston came to an end at the 1903 election, and several seats in the rural region between the two centres either merged or changed substantially. Possibly the most significant result was the failure of the

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, Elliott Lewis, to win a seat—formerly the member for abolished Richmond, he ran for the new Central Hobart seat, and was beaten by

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 ...

, an opposition backbencher with only two years' parliamentary experience, by a substantial margin. The election also saw an increased participation by the fledgling Labor Party, which won four of the six seats it contested, all of which were in mining areas of the state. Future Labor premier John Earle was beaten in

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by four votes, whilst future federal MHR

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and senator James Long also commenced their parliamentary careers.

Notes

: On 12 May 1903, the Ministerial member for Longford, Henry Dumaresq, resigned. Ministerial candidate Alfred Youl was elected unopposed. : On 22 September 1903, the Ministerial member for Cumberland and Speaker of the House,

Nicholas John Brown Nicholas John Brown (9 October 1838 – 22 September 1903) was a pastoralist and politician in colonial Tasmania, a Speaker of the Tasmanian House of Assembly. Brown was the son of Richard Brown, was born at Hobart and educated at the Hutchin ...

, died. Ministerial candidate John Wood won the resulting by-election on 9 October 1903. : In November 1903, the Liberal member for West Launceston, David Storrer, resigned to contest the Federal seat of Bass against

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 ...

, who Storrer had replaced in the Assembly the previous year. Liberal candidate Matthew Robinson won the resulting by-election on 10 December 1903. : In July 1904, the Labor member for Lyell, James Long, resigned. He was returned unopposed on 13 July 1904. : In July 1904, the Ministerial member for South Hobart,

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, resigned. Ministerial candidate Stafford Bird won the resulting by-election on 30 July 1904.

Sources

* * Parliament of Tasmania (2006)
The Parliament of Tasmania from 1856
{{DEFAULTSORT:Members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly, 1903-1906 Members of Tasmanian parliaments by term 20th-century Australian politicians