Members Of The Tasmanian House Of Assembly, 1941–1946
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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 Tasmanian Legislative Council, Legislative Council or Upper House. It sits in Parliament House, Hobart, Parliament Hou ...
between the 13 December 1941 election and the 23 November 1946 election. The term was elongated due to
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: Labor MHA for
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, Thomas Davies, died on 11 September 1942. A recount on 23 September 1942 resulted in the election of Labor candidate John Quintal. Quintal was believed to be the first direct descendant of a ''Bounty'' mutineer to be elected to any Australian parliament. : Labor MHA for Wilmot, David O'Keefe, died on 21 July 1943. A recount on 5 August 1943 resulted in the election of Labor candidate Peter Pike. : Labor MHA for Darwin, Thomas d'Alton, resigned in April 1944. A recount on 26 April 1944 resulted in the election of Labor candidate Michael Adye Smith. : Labor MHA for
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, John McDonald, resigned on 16 April 1945. A recount on 26 April 1945 resulted in the election of Labor candidate Alan Welsh. : Labor MHA for Denison, Edmund Dwyer-Gray, died on 6 December 1945. A recount on 20 December 1945 resulted in the election of Labor candidate and former MHA Francis Heerey. : Nationalist MHA for Denison, John Soundy, resigned to stand for the
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seat in the
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. A recount on 19 April 1946 resulted in the election of Robert Harvey.


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* * Parliament of Tasmania (2006)
The Parliament of Tasmania from 1856
{{DEFAULTSORT:Members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly, 1941-1946 Members of Tasmanian parliaments by term 20th-century Australian politicians