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1901

This is a list of members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly between the 1900 election and the 1903 election.

Party affiliations were relatively loose during the period, although a Liberal grouping had formed over the 1890s around Sir Edward Braddon, the former Premier of Tasmania, and Andrew Inglis Clark. A separate grouping, generally described as Ministerial, supported Elliott Lewis, who was Premier for the entire parliamentary term. Only one Labor candidate ran in the election, in only the second contest entered by the party.

The 1900 election was the second to use a limited version of the Hare-Clark system within Hobart and Launceston, which were given 6 and 4 seats respectively, while still using first past the post single-member constituencies elsewhere in the state. Following this term, the system largely returned to its pre–1897 state, but at the 1909 election, the entire State was redivided into five electorates using the Hare-Clark system.

Name Party District Years in office
William Aikenhead[5] Liberal Latrobe 1898–1902
Frank Archer[7] Liberal Selby 1893–1902
Jonathan Best Ministerial/Liberal Deloraine 1894–1897; 1899–1912; 1913
Stafford Bird Ministerial Franklin 1882–1903; 1904–1909
Sir Edward Braddon[3] Liberal West Devon 1879–1888; 1893–1901
John Bradley[2] Ministerial Hobart 1893–1900
Nicholas John Brown Independent/Ministerial Cumberland 1875–1903
William Brown Liberal/Independent Campbell Town 1882–1889; 1893–1903
William Burbury Independent/Ministerial Oatlands 1899–1903
Daniel Burke Ministerial Cressy 1893–1903
Edward Crowther Ministerial Kingborough 1878–1912
John Davies Ministerial/Independent Fingal 1884–1913a
Henry Dumaresq Ministerial Longford 1886–1903
John Evans Independent/Ministerial Kingborough 1897–1937
Alexander Fowler[4] Independent Launceston 1893; 1897–1901
James Gaffney Ministerial Lyell 1899–1903
William Guesdon Independent/Ministerial Hobart 1882–1886; 1900–1903
Charles Hall Independent/Liberal Waratah 1897–1903
John Hamilton Ministerial Glenorchy 1887–1903
William Hartnoll[6] Ministerial Launceston 1884–1902
Thomas Hodgman Independent/Liberal Brighton 1900–1912
Charles Hoggins[2] Liberal/Ministerial Hobart 1898–1900; 1900–1903;
1917–1919
John Hope Ministerial Devonport 1900–1911
George Leatham Ministerial New Norfolk 1891–1903; 1906–1909
Elliott Lewis Ministerial Richmond 1886–1903; 1909–1922
Carmichael Lyne Independent/Liberal Ringarooma 1900–1906
Sir John McCall[3] Liberal West Devon 1888–1893; 1901–1909
Peter McCracken Liberal Launceston 1900–1903
Charles Mackenzie Ministerial Wellington 1886–1909
Thomas Massey[7] Liberal Selby 1902–1903
Edward Miles[1] Liberal Hobart 1883–1899; 1900
Edward Mulcahy Ministerial Hobart 1891–1903; 1910–1919
Henry Murray[5] Liberal Latrobe 1891–1900; 1902–1909
Herbert Nicholls[1] Liberal Hobart 1900–1909
Robert Patterson Independent/Ministerial Hobart 1900–1904
William Propsting Liberal Hobart 1899–1905
Thomas Reibey Liberal Westbury 1874–1903
Frederick Shaw Ministerial Glamorgan 1899–1903
Robert Sadler Independent/Liberal Launceston 1900–1912; 1913–1922
John Charles von Steiglitz Ministerial Evandale 1891–1903
David Storrer[6] Liberal Launceston 1902–1903
Samuel Sutton[4] Liberal Launceston 1891–1897; 1901–1903
Don Urquhart Independent/Liberal Zeehan 1894–1903; 1906–1909
Thomas Walduck Independent/Liberal George Town 1900–1903
Joseph Woollnough Ministerial Sorell 1893–1903
1 On 17 April 1900, Liberal member for Hobart, Edward Miles, resigned. Liberal candidate Herbert Nicholls won the resulting by-election on 15 May 1900.
2 On 14 November 1900, Ministerial member for Hobart, John Bradley, died. Independent candidate Charles Hoggins won the resulting by-election on 5 December 1900.
3 On 29 March 1901, Liberal member for West Devon, Sir Edward Braddon, resigned to contest the inaugural federal election. Liberal candidate Sir John McCall won the resulting by-election on 30 April 1901.
4 In September 1901, Independent member for Launceston, Alexander Fowler, resigned. Liberal candidate Samuel Sutton won the resulting by-election on 4 October 1901.
5 On 3 April 1902, the Liberal member for Latrobe, William Aikenhead, died. Liberal candidate Henry Murray was elected unopposed on 19 April 1902.
6 In March 1902, Ministerial member for Launceston, William Hartnoll, resigned to contest a federal by-election following the death of Frederick Piesse. Liberal candidate David Storrer won the resulting by-election on 22 April 1902. Ironically, Storrer himself resigned the seat several months after the following election to defeat Hartnoll in Bass.
7 On 26 May 1902, the Liberal member for Selby, Frank Archer, died. At the resulting by-election on 11 June 1902, Liberal candidate Thomas Massey was elected unopposed.