Members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly, 1998-2002
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This is a list of members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly
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 Legislative Council or Upper House...

, elected at the 1998 state election:
Name Party Electorate Years in office
Hon Jim Bacon
Jim Bacon
James Alexander Bacon, AC was Premier of Tasmania from 1998 to 2004.-Early life:Bacon was born in Melbourne; his father Frank, a doctor, died when Jim was twelve, leaving him to be raised by his mother Joan. He was educated at Scotch College and later at Monash University, but he did not graduate....

 
Labor
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

 
Denison
Division of Denison (state)
The Electoral Division of Denison is one of the 5 electorates in the Tasmanian House of Assembly. The division is named after Sir William Denison, who was Lieutenant Governor of Van_Diemen's Land 1847-55, and Governor of New South Wales 1855-61. The division shares its name and boundaries with the...

 
1996–2004
Ken Bacon
Ken Bacon (politician)
Kenneth John Bacon was an Australian Labor Party member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly from 1998 until 2005.He was a government minister from 2004-2005. He retired due to ill health, effective 29 April 2005....

 
Labor Lyons
Division of Lyons (state)
The Electoral Division of Lyons, Tasmania is one of the 5 electorates in the Tasmanian House of Assembly, the lower house. The division is named after Joseph Lyons, Prime Minister of Australia 1931–39, Premier of Tasmania from 1923–1928 and his wife Dame Enid Lyons, the first woman elected to the...

 
1998–2005
Brenton Best
Brenton Best
Brenton Roy Best is an Australian politician. Born in Devonport, Tasmania, he was elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly in 1996 as a Labor member for Braddon. He continues to represent the seat.-References:...

 
Labor Braddon
Division of Braddon (state)
The Electoral Division of Braddon, Tasmania is one of the 5 electorates in the Tasmanian House of Assembly. The constituency takes its name from the former Premier of Tasmania, Sir Edward Braddon. Prior to 1955, the electorate was known as Darwin. The boundaries and name of the electorate are...

 
1996–present
Hon Fran Bladel
Fran Bladel
Frances Mary "Fran" Bladel is a former Australian politician. Born in Hobart, Tasmania, she holds a Bachelor of Arts . In 1986, she was elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly as a Labor member for Franklin. In 1989 she became a minister, serving until 1992 and again 2001–2002...

Labor Franklin
Division of Franklin (state)
The Electoral Division of Franklin is one of the five electorates in the Tasmanian House of Assembly. The division is named after Sir John Franklin, the arctic explorer who was Lieutenant-Governor of Van Diemen's Land 1837-43...

 
1986–2002
Hon Bill Bonde
Bill Bonde
Wilfred Bert "Bill" Bonde is a former Australian politician. Born in Ulverstone, Tasmania, he was elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly in 1986 as a Liberal member for Braddon. He was a minister from 1996 to 1998. Bonde retired in 2002.-References:...

 
Liberal
Liberal Party of Australia
The Liberal Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Founded a year after the 1943 federal election to replace the United Australia Party, the centre-right Liberal Party typically competes with the centre-left Australian Labor Party for political office...

 
Braddon 1986–2002
Bob Cheek
Bob Cheek
Robert Reginald 'Bob' Cheek was leader of the Opposition Tasmanian Liberal Party from 20 August 2001 until he lost his seat in the July 2002 election. It was the first time that a major party leader lost their seat in a Tasmanian election since 1903.Cheek was first elected to Tasmanian parliament...

 
Liberal Denison 1996–2002
Jim Cox  Labor Bass
Division of Bass (state)
The Electoral Division of Bass is one of the 5 electorates in the Tasmanian House of Assembly, or lower house; it takes its name from the British Naval Surgeon and Explorer of Australia: George Bass. The division shares its name and boundaries with the federal division of Bass...

 
1989–1992, 1996–2010
David Fry
David Fry (Australian politician)
David Mayburn Fry is a former Australian politician. Born in Manly, New South Wales, he moved to Tasmania and in 2000 was elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly in a countback following the resignation of Bass MHA Frank Madill. A member of the Liberal Party, he served as party whip from 2001....

Liberal Bass 2000–2002
Bryan Green
Bryan Green
Bryan Alexander Green is a Tasmanian Labor politician and member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly in the electorate of Braddon. In July 2006 he was forced to step down as Deputy Premier and Minister for Economic Development and Resources pending an enquiry into deal made with the TCC...

 
Labor Braddon 1998–present
Hon Ray Groom
Ray Groom
Raymond John "Ray" Groom, AO is a lawyer and former Australian sportsman and politician, representing the Liberal Party in the Federal Parliament 1975–84 and the Tasmanian Parliament 1986–2001. He was a Federal and state minister for a total of 13 years...

Liberal Denison 1986–2001
Rene Hidding
Rene Hidding
Marinus Theodoor "Rene" Hidding is an Australian politician. He is currently a Liberal Party member for the Division of Lyons in the Tasmanian House of Assembly...

 
Liberal Lyons 1996–present
Hon Michael Hodgman
Michael Hodgman
William Michael Hodgman, AM QC , is an Australian Liberal retired politician. He is a former member of the Tasmanian Legislative Council, the Tasmanian House of Assembly and the Australian House of Representatives....

Liberal Denison 1992–1998, 2001–2010
Hon Peter Hodgman
Peter Hodgman
Peter Curtis Leigh Hodgman is a former Australian politician. A member of the prominent Tasmanian Hodgman family, he is the son of Bill Hodgman, the brother of Michael Hodgman and the uncle of current Tasmanian Opposition Leader Will Hodgman....

Liberal Franklin 1986–2001
Hon Judy Jackson
Judy Jackson
The Honourable Judith Louise Jackson was an Australian Labor Party politician, in Tasmania from 1986 to 2006. She was the Attorney-General and Minister for Environment in the Tasmanian Government. During her time in parliament she was a member of the Hobart based seat of Denison...

 
Labor Denison 1986–2006
Hon Gill James
Gill James
Gillian Hilma "Gill" James AM is a former Australian politician. She was born in Launceston, Tasmania. James was first elected to the Tasmanian Parliament in 1976, when she won a seat in Bass for the Labor Party. She held the seat until she was defeated in 1986, but she returned in 1992 and served...

 
Labor Bass 1976–1989, 1992–2002
Steve Kons
Steve Kons
Steven Kons was an Australian Labor politician and member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly in the electorate of Braddon...

 
Labor Braddon 1998–2010
Hon Paul Lennon
Paul Lennon
Paul Anthony Lennon is an Australian Labor Party politician. He was Premier of Tasmania from 21 March 2004 until his resignation on 26 May 2008. He was member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly for the seat of Franklin from 1990 until officially resigning on 27 May 2008...

 
Labor Franklin 1990–2008
Hon David Llewellyn
David Llewellyn (Australian politician)
David Edward Llewellyn is a former Australian politician, who was an Australian Labor Party member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly from 1986 to 2010...

 
Labor Lyons 1986–2010
Hon Frank Madill
Frank Madill
The Honourable Francis Leslie 'Frank' Madill was a Liberal Party member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly from 1986 until 2000....

Liberal Bass 1986–2000
Martin McManus
Martin McManus (Australian politician)
Martin John McManus is a former Australian politician. Born in Hobart, Tasmania, he trained as a teacher. He is the great grandson of Edward Mulcahy, a long-serving Tasmanian Senator and MHA. On 19 October 2001, he was elected as a Liberal to the Tasmanian House of Assembly for the seat of...

Liberal Franklin 2001–2002
Hon Sue Napier
Sue Napier
Sue Napier was an Australian politician. She was a member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly for the Division of Bass...

 
Liberal Bass 1992–2010
Neville Oliver
Neville Oliver
Neville Laurence Oliver is a former Australian politician. Before entering politics, he was an ABC sports commentator. On 22 April 2002, he was elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly as a Labor member representing Franklin in a recount following the resignation of Fran Bladel. Oliver...

Labor Franklin 2002
Hon Peter Patmore
Peter Patmore
Peter James Patmore is a former Australian politician. His qualifications before entering parliament included a Bachelor of Law and a Diploma of Criminology. In 1984 he was elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly as one of the members of Bass, representing the Australian Labor Party. He...

 
Labor Bass 1984–2002
Hon Michael Polley
Michael Polley
The Honourable Michael Robert Polley is an Australian Labor Party politician and member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly in the Division of Lyons. First elected in 1972 at age 21 he is currently the longest-serving member of the Tasmanian parliament, having been re-elected at ten successive...

 
Labor Lyons 1972–present
Peg Putt
Peg Putt
Margaret Ann Putt is a former Australian politician and parliamentary leader of the Tasmanian Greens. She first entered the Tasmanian House of Assembly in 1993 after Bob Brown resigned and votes in the Hobart electorate of Denison were recounted...

 
Greens
Tasmanian Greens
The Tasmanian Greens are a political party in Australia which developed from numerous environmental campaigns in Tasmania, including the flooding of Lake Pedder and the Franklin Dam campaign...

 
Denison 1993–2008
Hon Tony Rundle
Tony Rundle
Anthony Maxwell Rundle AO was the Premier of the Australian State of Tasmania from 18 March 1996 to 14 September 1998. He succeeded Ray Groom and was succeeded himself by Jim Bacon. He is a Liberal who held the seat of Braddon between 1986 and 2002. A former journalist, he is married to...

 
Liberal Braddon 1982–2002
Matt Smith
Matt Smith (Australian politician)
Matthew John "Matt" Smith is an Australian Liberal politician who served in the Tasmanian House of Assembly from 1998 to 2002.Smith was elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly in 1998 as a member for the seat of Franklin...

 
Liberal Franklin 1998–2002
Hon Denise Swan
Denise Swan
Denise Elizabeth Swan is a former Australian politician. She holds a Bachelor of Law. On 12 December 1995, she was elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly in a recount to replace Liberal Lyons MHA and former Premier Robin Gray. She held her seat until her defeat in 2002.-References:...

 
Liberal Lyons 1995–2002
Hon Paula Wriedt
Paula Wriedt
Paula Catherine Wriedt is a former Australian politician. She was an Australian Labor Party member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly, representing the outer suburban Hobart seat of Franklin. She was first elected to parliament in the 1996 election...

 
Labor Franklin 1996–2009

Liberal member Frank Madill
Frank Madill
The Honourable Francis Leslie 'Frank' Madill was a Liberal Party member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly from 1986 until 2000....

 resigned in early 2000. David Fry
David Fry (Australian politician)
David Mayburn Fry is a former Australian politician. Born in Manly, New South Wales, he moved to Tasmania and in 2000 was elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly in a countback following the resignation of Bass MHA Frank Madill. A member of the Liberal Party, he served as party whip from 2001....

 was elected as his replacement in February.
Liberal member Ray Groom
Ray Groom
Raymond John "Ray" Groom, AO is a lawyer and former Australian sportsman and politician, representing the Liberal Party in the Federal Parliament 1975–84 and the Tasmanian Parliament 1986–2001. He was a Federal and state minister for a total of 13 years...

 resigned on 9 August 2001. Michael Hodgman
Michael Hodgman
William Michael Hodgman, AM QC , is an Australian Liberal retired politician. He is a former member of the Tasmanian Legislative Council, the Tasmanian House of Assembly and the Australian House of Representatives....

 was elected as his replacement on 21 August.
Liberal member Peter Hodgman
Peter Hodgman
Peter Curtis Leigh Hodgman is a former Australian politician. A member of the prominent Tasmanian Hodgman family, he is the son of Bill Hodgman, the brother of Michael Hodgman and the uncle of current Tasmanian Opposition Leader Will Hodgman....

 resigned in 2001. Martin McManus
Martin McManus (Australian politician)
Martin John McManus is a former Australian politician. Born in Hobart, Tasmania, he trained as a teacher. He is the great grandson of Edward Mulcahy, a long-serving Tasmanian Senator and MHA. On 19 October 2001, he was elected as a Liberal to the Tasmanian House of Assembly for the seat of...

 was elected as his replacement on 19 October.
Labor member Fran Bladel
Fran Bladel
Frances Mary "Fran" Bladel is a former Australian politician. Born in Hobart, Tasmania, she holds a Bachelor of Arts . In 1986, she was elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly as a Labor member for Franklin. In 1989 she became a minister, serving until 1992 and again 2001–2002...

 resigned in 2002. Neville Oliver
Neville Oliver
Neville Laurence Oliver is a former Australian politician. Before entering politics, he was an ABC sports commentator. On 22 April 2002, he was elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly as a Labor member representing Franklin in a recount following the resignation of Fran Bladel. Oliver...

 was elected as her replacement on 22 April.

Distribution of seats

Electorate Seats held
Bass
Division of Bass
The Division of Bass is an Australian Electoral Division in Tasmania. The division was created in 1903 and is named for the explorer George Bass. It has always been based on the city of Launceston and surrounding rural areas, and its boundaries have changed very little in the century since its...

         
Braddon
Division of Braddon
The Division of Braddon is an Australian Electoral Division in Tasmania.The division was created in 1955 to replace the abolished Division of Darwin, and is named for Sir Edward Braddon, a Premier of Tasmania and one of Tasmania's five original federal MPs...

         
Denison
Division of Denison
The Division of Denison is anAustralian Electoral Division in Tasmania.The division was created in 1903 and is named for Sir William Denison, who was Lt-Governor of Van Diemens Land 1847-55...

         
Franklin
Division of Franklin
The Division of Franklin is an Australian Electoral Division in Tasmania. The division was created in 1903 and is named for Sir John Franklin, the polar explorer who was Lt Governor of Van Diemen's Land 1843-46. It is located in southern Tasmania, including the Hobart suburbs of Bridgewater,...

         
Lyons
Division of Lyons
The Division of Lyons is an Australian Electoral Division in Tasmania. The division was created in 1984 to replace the abolished Division of Wilmot and is named for Joseph Lyons, Prime Minister of Australia 1931-39, Member for Wilmot from 1929-39, and his wife Dame Enid Lyons, the first woman...

         

  Australian Labor Party – 14 seats (56%)
  Liberal Party of Australia – 10 seats (40%)
  Tasmanian Greens – 1 seat (4%)
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