Division of Bass (state)

This article is about the state electorate. For the federal electorate, see Division of Bass.

Bass Electorate

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. Bass includes the city of Launceston and towns in the states north east including: Scottsdale, Lilydale, St Helens, George Town and others. At each state election; five members are elected to the House of Assembly through preference voting. The division is 7,497 km² in area.

Current members

• Michelle O'Byrne – Labor
• Brian Wightman – Labor
• Peter Gutwein – Liberal
• Michael Ferguson – Liberal
• Kim Booth – Green

Members for Bass

Year	Member		Party	Member		Party	Member		Party	Member		Party	Member		Party	Member		Party	Member		Party
1909		Thomas Bakhap	Anti-Socialist		Albert Solomon	Anti-Socialist		Charles Howroyd	Labor		Robert McKenzie	Anti-Socialist		Robert Sadler	Liberal Democrat		James Guy	Labor
1912			Liberal			Liberal						Liberal		George Becker	Labor
1913		Robert Sadler	Liberal								John Hayes	Liberal					Arthur Anderson	Labor
1914					Alexander Marshall	Liberal
1915																	James McDonald	Labor
1916																	Allan Guy	Labor
1917			Nationalist			Nationalist			Nationalist			Nationalist
1917								James Newton	Nationalist
1922		Jens Jensen	Independent Labor
1923											George Shields	Nationalist
1925									Liberal
1925		Victor Shaw	Labor		Henry Thomson	Nationalist					Claude James	Liberal
1928									Nationalist			Nationalist
1928								John Ockerby	Nationalist
1929																	Thomas Davies	Labor
1931					Robert Murphy	Nationalist								Howard Barber	Nationalist
1933														Herbert Postle	Nationalist
1934					Allen Hollingsworth	Nationalist								John McDonald	Labor
1936		John Madden	Labor
1937											Eric Howroyd	Labor
1941					Francis Marriott	Nationalist
1942																	John Quintal	Labor
1945														Alan Welsh	Labor
1946						Liberal			Independent
1946					Fred Marriott	Liberal		Eric Beattie	Liberal					Reg Turnbull	Labor		Alexander Atkins	Labor
1948																	John Orchard	Liberal
1950								John Steer	Liberal		Claude Barnard	Labor
1954																	Eric Beattie	Liberal
1956		Alexander Atkins	Labor
1957											John Madden	Labor
1959															Independent					Mac Le Fevre	Labor
1961					James McGowen	Liberal		Max Bushby	Liberal					Wallace Fraser	Labor
1964					John Steer	Liberal
1968					James Henty	Liberal
1969											Timothy Barrenger	Liberal		Michael Barnard	Labor					Allan Foster	Labor
1972		David Farquhar	Labor		Neil Pitt	Liberal					Mac Le Fevre	Labor
1974																				Harry Holgate	Labor
1976		Gill James	Labor		Neil Robson	Liberal					Jim Mooney	Liberal
1979											Mary Willey	Labor					John Beswick	Liberal
1981												Independent
1982											Brendan Lyons	Liberal
1984														Peter Patmore	Labor
1986								Frank Madill	Liberal		Peter Rae	Liberal
1989		Jim Cox	Labor								Lance Armstrong	Greens
1992		Gill James	Labor		Sue Napier	Liberal														Tony Benneworth	Liberal
1996											Jim Cox	Labor
1998
2000								David Fry	Liberal
2002		Kim Booth	Greens					Peter Gutwein	Liberal					Kathryn Hay	Labor
2006														Michelle O'Byrne	Labor
2010					Michael Ferguson	Liberal					Brian Wightman	Labor

See also

• Current Members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly
• List of Past Members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly
• Federal division of Bass