Candidates of the 1976 Tasmanian state election

The 1976 Tasmanian state election was held on 11 December 1976.

## Retiring Members

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### Labor

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* Joseph Britton MHA (Braddon)
* Mac Le Fevre MHA (Bass)
* Sydney Ward MHA (Braddon)

### Liberal

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* Wilfred Barker MHA (Braddon)

## 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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Seven seats were up for election. The Labor Party was defending four seats. The Liberal Party was defending three seats.

Labor candidates  | Liberal candidates  | UTG candidates  | Ungrouped candidates

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Michael Barnard*
Ursula Workman
Harry Holgate*
Myron Tripp
David Farquhar
John Breen
Gill James*
Thomas O'Byrne

Dawn Rhodes
William Luck
Bill Beattie*
Max Bushby*
Neil Pitt
John Beswick
Neil Robson*
Dick Archer
Jim Mooney*

Deidre Smith
Bob Brown
Noreen Batchelor

Quentin Wilson

### Braddon

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Seven seats were up for election. The Labor Party was defending five seats. The Liberal Party was defending two seats.

Labor candidates  | Liberal candidates  | Ungrouped candidates

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Ted Vickers
Christopher Wright
Maurice Dart
Graeme Smith
Geoff Chisholm*
Michael Field*
Glen Davies*
John Coughlan*

Ron Cornish*
Kent Furmage
Eric Bessell
Roger Groom*
Ray Bonney*
Harold Dowling
Harold Hawkes
Frank Atkins

Philip Kelly

### Denison

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Seven seats were up for election. The Labor Party was defending four seats. The Liberal Party was defending three seats.

Labor candidates  | Liberal candidates  | UTG candidates  | Workers candidates  | SWP candidates

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Neil Batt*
Thomas Gascoigne
Julian Amos*
Margaret Thurstans
Ken Austin
Ian Cole
Des Lavey
John Green*

Max Bingham*
Max Robinson*
Basil Giffard
Rudge Townley
Robert Mather*
Bob Baker*
David Brownlow
Hank Petrusma

Rod Broadby
Kevin Hazelwood
Helen Gee
David Stephen
Patricia Armstrong
Patricia Jones
William Hickson

Lance Buckingham
Peter Mollon

Rosanne Fidler
John Tully

### Franklin

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Seven seats were up for election. The Labor Party was defending four seats. The Liberal Party was defending three seats.

Labor candidates  | Liberal candidates  | UTG candidates  | Ungrouped candidates

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Eric Barnard*
Doug Lowe*
Bill McKinnon
Raymond Woodruff
Peter Brown
Jack Frost
Bill Neilson*
Barrie Robinson
Ray Sherry*

John Beattie*
Thomas Dempsey
Doug Clark
Steve Gilmour*
Alan Duggan
Geoff Pearsall*
Frank O'Connor
Roy Pallett

Ria Ikin
Sharyn Harrison-Williams
John Levett
Michael Davies
Judith Walker
Rosemary Brown
Brian Chapman

Roger Francis
Bryan Threlfall
Harry Priest
Leo Jarvis

### Wilmot

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Seven seats were up for election. The Labor Party was defending four seats. The Liberal Party was defending three seats.

Labor candidates  | Liberal candidates  | UTG candidates  | Workers candidates  | Ungrouped candidates

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Gordon Edhouse
Michael Polley*
Darrel Baldock*
Terry Aulich*
Allan Rhodes
Andrew Lohrey*
Charles Batt
Graham Vertigan

Graeme Page*
D L Youd
Clyde FitzGerald
Ian Braid*
Bert Bessell
Robin Gray*
Trevor Roach
Jim Burn
Bob Ingamells

Anthony Burke
Anthony Joyce
Roy Jackson

Stewart Lester
Kevin Chaffey

Stan King

## See also

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* Members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly, 1972–1976
* Members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly, 1976–1979

## References

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* Tasmanian Parliamentary Library