Candidates of the 1922 Tasmanian state election

The 1922 Tasmanian state election was held on 10 June 1922. Since the last election, the Country Party had formed and counted a number of Nationalist MHAs among its members.

## Retiring Members

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### Nationalist

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* Sir Elliott Lewis MHA (Denison)
* Robert Sadler MHA (Bass)

## House of Assembly

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Sitting members are shown in bold text. Tickets that elected at least one MHA are highlighted in the relevant colour. Successful candidates are indicated by an asterisk (*).

### Bass

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Six seats were up for election. The Labor Party was defending two seats. The Nationalist Party was defending four seats.

Labor candidates  | Nationalist candidates  | Country candidates  | Independent candidates

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George Becker*
Leonard Bennett
Allan Guy*
Alfred Higgins
Victor Shaw

John Hayes*
Alexander Marshall*
James Newton*
William Rose
George Shields
Henry Thomson

Robert Murphy

Jens Jensen*

### Darwin

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Six seats were up for election. The Labor Party was defending three seats. The Nationalist Party was defending two seats, although Edward Hobbs was running for the Country Party. Independent MHA Joshua Whitsitt was defending one seat.

Labor candidates  | Nationalist candidates  | Country candidates  | Independent candidates

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James Belton*
James Hurst*
Philip Kelly
James Ogden*

Frank Marriott*
Percy Pollard

Charles Dunning
Richard Franks*
Edward Hobbs*
John Wright

Llewellyn Story
Joshua Whitsitt

### Denison

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Six seats were up for election. The Labor Party was defending three seats. The Nationalist Party was defending three seats.

Labor candidates  | Nationalist candidates  | Independent candidates

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John Cleary*
Robert Cosgrove
Charles Culley*
Will Reece
William Sheridan*

Francis Foster
Charles Grant*
Joseph Hatch
Edward James
John McPhee*
William Mulcahy
Leslie Payne
Albert Richardson
Robert Snowden*
Eric Stopp
John Turner

William Lloyd
William Michael
Alicia O'Shea Petersen
Edith Waterworth

### Franklin

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Six seats were up for election. The Labor Party was defending three seats, although David Dicker was running as an independent. The Nationalist Party was defending three seats, although William Dixon was running for the Country Party.

Labor candidates  | Nationalist candidates  | Country candidates  | Independent candidates

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James Kenneally
Albert Ogilvie*
William Pearce*
William Shoobridge
Benjamin Watkins

George Cummins
John Evans*
Alexander Hean*
Peter Murdoch*
Arthur Sibley

William Dixon
John Newman
Benjamin Pearsall
John Piggott*

David Dicker (Ind Lab)
Thomas Keogh (Ind Lab)
Thomas O'Brien

### Wilmot

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Six seats were up for election. The Labor Party was defending two seats. The Nationalist Party was defending four seats, although Ernest Blyth was running for the Country Party.

Labor candidates  | Nationalist candidates  | Country candidates  | Independent candidates

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Joseph Lyons*
F A Masters
Michael O'Keefe*

Neil Campbell*
Herbert Hays
Sir Walter Lee*
Henry McFie
George Pullen

Albert Bendall*
Ernest Blyth*
Walter Gowans
Arthur Lade

F Bottomley
Norman Cameron
Annette Youl

## See also

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* Members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly, 1919–1922
* Members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly, 1922–1925

## References

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* Tasmanian Parliamentary Library