Members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly, 1928–1931

This is a list of members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly between the 30 May 1928 election and the 9 May 1931 election. The 1928 election failed to deliver a majority, and the Nationalists' John McPhee took over from Labor's Joseph Lyons as Premier of Tasmania. Lyons subsequently retired from state politics, obtaining election to the Federal seat of Wilmot and going on to become Prime Minister of Australia in 1931.

Name Party Division Years in office Henry Baker Nationalist Franklin 1928–1946 George Becker Labor Bass 1912–1931; 1934–1941 James Belton Labor Darwin 1909–1931 Percy Best Nationalist Wilmot 1928–1931 Neil Campbell Nationalist Wilmot 1922–1955 Robert Cosgrove Labor Denison 1919–1922; 1925–1931;1934–1958 Thomas Davies Labor Bass 1929–1942 Edmund Dwyer-Gray Labor Denison 1928–1945 John Evans Nationalist Franklin 1897–1937 Charles Grant Nationalist Denison 1922–1925; 1928–1932 Allan Guy Labor Bass 1916–1929 Edward Hobbs Nationalist Darwin 1916–1934 Claude James Nationalist Bass 1925–1937 Jens Jensen Labor Wilmot 1903–1910; 1922–1925;1928–1934 Philip Kelly Labor Darwin 1922–1946 Walter Lee Nationalist Wilmot 1909–1946 Joseph Lyons Labor Wilmot 1909–1929 Henry McFie Nationalist Darwin 1925–1934; 1941–1948 John McPhee Nationalist Denison 1919–1934; 1941–1946 Frank Marriott Nationalist Darwin 1922–1946 Fergus Medwin Labor/Independent Darwin 1928–1931 John Ockerby Nationalist Bass 1928–1946 Albert Ogilvie Labor Franklin 1919–1939 Eric Ogilvie Labor Wilmot 1928–1940 Benjamin Pearsall Independent Franklin 1928–1931; 1934–1937 John Piggott Nationalist Franklin 1922–1931 Victor Shaw Labor Bass 1925–1936 William Shoobridge Labor Wilmot 1916–1919; 1922–1928;1929–1931 John Soundy Nationalist Denison 1925–1946 Henry Thomson Nationalist Bass 1925–1931 Benjamin Watkins Labor/Independent Franklin 1906–1917; 1919–1922;1925–1934 Walter Woods Labor Denison 1906–1917; 1925–1931

Notes Labor MHA for Wilmot, Joseph Lyons, resigned to contest the federal seat of Wilmot at the 1929 election. A recount on 27 September 1929 resulted in Labor candidate William Shoobridge being elected. Labor MHA for Bass, Allan Guy, resigned to contest the federal seat of Bass. Due to the ballot papers from the previous election having been lost in a flood, the standard countback was not able to be conducted and a by-election was held instead. Thomas Davies – who would ordinarily have filled the seat on the countback – was declared elected unopposed on 5 October 1929.

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