Members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly, 1946–1948

This is a list of members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly between the 23 November 1946 election and the 21 August 1948 election. The Nationalist Party had dissolved and its members had joined the new Liberal Party by the time of the election.

Name Party Division Years in office Alexander Atkins Labor Bass 1946–1948; 1956–1972 Charles Atkins Liberal Denison 1941–1948 Charley Aylett Labor Darwin 1946–1964 Bill Beattie Liberal Bass 1946–1950; 1954–1979 Angus Bethune Liberal Wilmot 1946–1975 Carrol Bramich Labor Darwin 1946–1964 Hon Edward Brooker Labor Franklin 1934–1948 John Harold Brown Labor Franklin 1948 Neil Campbell Liberal Wilmot 1922–1955 Jack Chamberlain Liberal Darwin 1934–1951 Hon Robert Cosgrove Labor Denison 1919–1922; 1925–1931;1934–1958 Charles Culley Labor Denison 1922–1928; 1934–1948 John Dwyer Labor Franklin 1931–1962 Hon Roy Fagan Labor Wilmot 1946–1974 John Fidler Liberal Darwin 1946–1956 George Gray Independent Franklin 1946–1950 Hon Eric Howroyd Labor Bass 1937–1950; 1958–1959 Tim Jackson Liberal Franklin 1946–1964 Henry McFie Liberal/Independent Darwin 1925–1934; 1941–1948 Hon John Madden Labor Bass 1936–1956; 1957–1969 Fred Marriott Liberal Bass 1946–1961 Bill Neilson Labor Franklin 1946–1977 Peter Pike Labor Wilmot 1943–1949 Hon Eric Reece Labor Darwin 1946–1975 Lancelot Spurr Labor Wilmot 1941–1956 Horace Strutt Liberal Denison 1946–1959; 1959–1969 Rex Townley Independent Denison 1946–1965 Dr Reg Turnbull Labor Bass 1946–1961 Hon Alfred White Labor Denison 1941–1959 Reg Wright Liberal Franklin 1946–1949 Robert Robertson Liberal Wilmot 1946–1950

Notes Labor MHA for Franklin, Edward Brooker, died on 18 June 1948. A recount on 28 June 1948 resulted in the election of Labor candidate John Harold Brown—as it turned out, Brown served the shortest term of any MHA, of just seven weeks.

Sources

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