Division of Franklin (state)

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

Division of Franklin

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. The boundaries and name of the electorate are shared with the federal Division of Franklin and include Kingston, Seven Mile Beach and Lauderdale as well as the rural towns of Huonville, Franklin, Cygnet, Margate and Bruny Island. The subantarctic Macquarie Island is also part of the electorate. In state elections; five members are elected to Franklin through preference voting, the division measures 6,911km².

Current members

• David O'Byrne - Labor
• Lara Giddings - Labor
• Will Hodgman - Liberal
• Jacquie Petrusma - Liberal
• Nick McKim - Greens

Members for Franklin

Year	Member		Party	Member		Party	Member		Party	Member		Party	Member		Party	Member		Party	Member		Party
1909		David Dicker	Labor		Alexander Hean	Anti-Socialist		John Earle	Labor		Thomas Hodgman	Anti-Socialist		Norman Ewing	Anti-Socialist		John Evans	Anti-Socialist
1912						Liberal					George Martin	Labor			Liberal			Liberal
1913					Arthur Cotton	Liberal
1915														Daniel Ryan	Liberal
1916					Alexander Hean	Liberal					William Shoobridge	Labor		Frederick Burbury	Liberal
1917						Nationalist			Nationalist						Nationalist			Nationalist
1917								Arthur Cotton	Nationalist
1919								Benjamin Watkins	Labor		Albert Ogilvie	Labor		William Dixon	Nationalist
1922			Independent												Country
1922		William Pearce	Labor					Peter Murdoch	Nationalist					John Piggott	Country
1922		William Shoobridge	Labor
1925		Benjamin Watkins	Labor		William Sheridan	Labor			Independent						Independent
1928					Henry Baker	Nationalist		Benjamin Pearsall	Independent						Nationalist
1931			Independent					Alfred Seabrook	Nationalist					John Dwyer	Labor
1934		Edward Brooker	Labor					Benjamin Pearsall	Independent
1937								Basil Plummer	Labor								George Doyle	Nationalist
1939											Francis McDermott	Labor
1940																	Vincent Shoobridge	Nationalist
1941								Henry Hope	Labor		Thomas McKinley	Labor					John McPhee	Nationalist
1946					Reg Wright	Liberal		Bill Neilson	Labor		George Gray	Independent					Tim Jackson	Liberal
1948		John Brown	Labor
1948		Charles Hand	Labor
1949					Archibald Park	Liberal
1950											Thomas Pearsall	Liberal
1955					Mabel Miller	Liberal
1956		Brian Crawford	Labor
1959		Eric Barnard	Labor																	Aretas Young	Liberal
1960																		Independent
1962														Lynda Heaven	Labor
1964					Terry Martin	Labor								Jack Frost	Labor		Douglas Clark	Liberal
1966											Eric Iles	Liberal
1969					Geoff Pearsall	Liberal					Stanley Gough	Liberal								Doug Lowe	Labor
1972											John Beattie	Liberal
1976														Ray Sherry	Labor		Stephen Gilmour	Liberal
1977								Bill McKinnon	Labor
1979								Dick Adams	Labor					Michael Aird	Labor		John Cleary	Liberal
1979		Bill McKinnon	Labor
1981																					Independent
1982								Ken Wriedt	Labor
1986		Peter Hodgman	Liberal											Fran Bladel	Labor		Nick Evers	Liberal		Gerry Bates	Greens
1988					John Cleary	Liberal
1989											Michael Aird	Labor
1990								Paul Lennon	Labor								Brian Davison	Liberal
1995											John Sheppard	Labor								Mike Foley	Greens
1996											Paula Wriedt	Labor					Bruce Goodluck	Independent
1998					Matt Smith	Liberal
2001		Martin McManus	Liberal
2002														Neville Oliver	Labor
2002		Nick McKim	Greens		Will Hodgman	Liberal								Lara Giddings	Labor
2008								Ross Butler	Labor
2009											Daniel Hulme	Labor
2010								David O'Byrne	Labor		Jacquie Petrusma	Liberal

See also

• Current Members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly
• List of Past Members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly
• Federal Division of Franklin