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 parliament, chambers of the Parliament, the other being the Tasmanian House of Assembly, House of Assembly. Both ho ...
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 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 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 won the new seat of
Prosser at the
2018 Tasmanian Legislative Council periodic election, while incumbent independent Hobart MLC
Rob Valentine was re-elected.
: Independent candidate
Meg Webb won the seat of
Nelson at the
2019 Tasmanian Legislative Council periodic election, while Labor MLC
Jo Siejka (
Pembroke) and Liberal MLC
Leonie Hiscutt (
Montgomery) were re-elected.
: At the
2020 Tasmanian Legislative Council periodic election, Liberal candidate
Jo Palmer replaced retiring independent MLC
Kerry Finch in
Rosevears, while Labor candidate
Bastian Seidel 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 in
Windermere
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, while Labor candidate
Craig Farrell (
Derwent) was re-elected.
: On 23 August 2021, Labor MLC
Bastian Seidel 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 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 was elected.
Sources
* Parliament of Tasmania (2006)
The Parliament of Tasmania from 1856
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21st-century Australian politicians