Candidates of the 1922 Tasmanian state election

This article provides information on candidates who stood for the 1922 Tasmanian state election, 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

Nationalist

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

House of Assembly

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

References

Tasmanian Parliamentary Library