List of Tasmanian House of Assembly countbacks

This is a list of casual vacancies in the Tasmanian House of Assembly since 1965. Casual vacancies in the House of Assembly are filled by a countback of the votes of the departing member.

Date	Electorate	Outgoing member	Party		Reason for vacancy	Incoming member	Party
4 October 2023	Franklin	Elise Archer		Independent	Resigned as an Independent after quitting the Liberal Party a week earlier after being forced to resign as Minister	Simon Behrakis		Liberal
13 July 2023	Franklin	Cassy O'Connor		Greens	Resigned as Greens leader and in a successful bid for Legislative Council seat of Hobart at the 2024 periodic elections	Vica Bayley		Greens
25 July 2022	Franklin	Jacquie Petrusma		Liberal	Resigned	Dean Young		Liberal
8 April 2022	Bass	Peter Gutwein		Liberal	Resigned as Premier	Simon Wood		Liberal
10 February 2022	Bass	Sarah Courtney		Liberal	Resigned	Lara Alexander		Liberal
14 March 2021	Braddon	Adam Brooks		Liberal	Resigned	Felix Ellis		Liberal
27 July 2020	Braddon	Joan Rylah		Liberal	Resigned	Felix Ellis		Liberal
20 January 2020	Franklin	Will Hodgman		Liberal	Resigned as Premier	Nic Street		Liberal
25 August 2019	Clark	Scott Bacon		Labor	Resigned with his replacement quitting the Labor Party and entering Parliament as an Independent	Madeleine Ogilvie		Independent
25 February 2019	Lyons	Rene Hidding		Liberal	Resigned	John Tucker		Liberal
12 February 2019	Braddon	Adam Brooks		Liberal	Resigned	Joan Rylah		Liberal
17 March 2017	Braddon	Bryan Green		Labor	Resigned as opposition leader	Shane Broad		Labor
3 March 2016	Franklin	Paul Harriss		Liberal	Resigned	Nic Street		Liberal
17 August 2015	Franklin	Nick McKim		Greens	Resigned to accept Senate appointment	Rosalie Woodruff		Greens
9 June 2015	Bass	Kim Booth		Greens	Resigned as Greens leader	Andrea Dawkins		Greens
26 May 2011	Denison	David Bartlett		Labor	Resigned as Premier	Graeme Sturges		Labor
9 February 2009	Franklin	Paula Wriedt		Labor	Resigned after being dropped as Minister	Daniel Hulme		Labor
28 July 2008	Denison	Peg Putt		Greens	Resigned as Greens leader	Cassy O'Connor		Greens
27 May 2008	Franklin	Paul Lennon		Labor	Resigned as Premier	Ross Butler		Labor
10 May 2005	Lyons	Ken Bacon		Labor	Resigned as Minister	Heather Butler		Labor
1 April 2004	Denison	Jim Bacon		Labor	Resigned as Premier due to ill health	David Bartlett		Labor
22 April 2002	Franklin	Fran Bladel		Labor	Resigned in unsuccessful bid for Legislative Council seat of Huon at 2002 periodic elections	Neville Oliver		Labor
19 October 2001	Franklin	Peter Hodgman		Liberal	Resigned in unsuccessful bid for Franklin at the 2001 federal election	Martin McManus		Liberal
21 August 2001	Denison	Ray Groom		Liberal	Resigned	Michael Hodgman		Liberal
14 March 2000	Bass	Frank Madill		Liberal	Resigned due to ill health	David Fry		Liberal
15 July 1997	Braddon	Michael Field		Labor	Resigned	Mike Gard		Labor
15 July 1997	Braddon	Roger Groom		Liberal	Resigned	Carole Cains		Liberal
15 December 1995	Lyons	Robin Gray		Liberal	Resigned	Denise Swan		Liberal
15 May 1995	Franklin	Gerry Bates		Greens	Resigned in unsuccessful bid for Legislative Council seat of Queenborough at the 1995 periodic elections	Mike Foley		Greens
10 April 1995	Franklin	Michael Aird		Labor	Resigned in successful bid for Legislative Council seat of Derwent at the 1995 periodic elections	John Sheppard		Labor
26 February 1993	Denison	Bob Brown		Greens	Resigned	Peg Putt		Greens
15 October 1990	Franklin	Ken Wriedt		Labor	Resigned	Paul Lennon		Labor
6 August 1990	Franklin	Nick Evers		Liberal	Resigned	Brian Davison		Liberal
15 February 1990	Denison	John Bennett		Liberal	Resigned	Chris Gibson		Liberal
14 November 1988	Franklin	Geoff Pearsall		Liberal	Resigned	John Cleary		Liberal
29 September 1987	Denison	Geoff Davis		Liberal	Resigned	John Barker		Liberal
14 July 1987	Lyons	Darrel Baldock		Labor	Resigned to return to football coaching	Chris Batt		Labor
10 August 1984	Bass	Michael Barnard		Labor	Resigned	Peter Patmore		Labor
25 June 1984	Denison	John Devine		Labor	Resigned	Bob Graham		Labor
25 June 1984	Denison	Max Bingham		Liberal	Resigned	Carmel Holmes		Liberal
4 January 1983	Denison	Norm Sanders		Democrat	Resigned	Bob Brown		Green Independents
8 September 1980	Denison	Neil Batt		Labor	Resigned	Bob Graham		Labor
28 September 1979	Franklin	Eric Barnard		Labor	Resigned	Bill McKinnon		Labor
12 December 1977	Franklin	Bill Neilson		Labor	Resigned	Bill McKinnon		Labor
10 July 1975	Wilmot	Angus Bethune		Liberal	Resigned	Ian Braid		Liberal
16 May 1975	Braddon	Lloyd Costello		Labor	Resigned	John Coughlan		Labor
12 April 1975	Braddon	Eric Reece		Labor	Resigned	Joseph Britton		Labor
17 August 1974	Denison	Kevin Corby		Labor	Resigned	John Green		Labor
26 July 1974	Wilmot	Roy Fagan		Labor	Resigned	Charles Batt		Labor
26 July 1974	Bass	Allan Foster		Labor	Resigned	Harry Holgate		Labor
27 April 1974	Denison	Merv Everett		Labor	Resigned in successful bid for the Australian Senate at the 1974 federal election	Ian Cole		Labor
25 October 1968	Bass	John Steer		Liberal	Died in office	James Henty		Liberal
27 October 1966	Franklin	Thomas Pearsall		Liberal	Resigned in successful bid for seat of Franklin at the 1966 federal election	Eric Iles		Liberal
10 July 1965	Denison	Rex Townley		Liberal	Resigned	George Deas Brown		Liberal

References

• Results of All Countbacks to Fill House of Assembly Casual Vacancies, under the Tasmanian Electoral Act, for the 45 years from 1965 to 2011

See also

• Members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly