Division of Clark (state)

The electoral division of Clark is one of the five electorates in the Tasmanian House of Assembly, it is located in Hobart on the western shore of the River Derwent and includes the suburbs below Mount Wellington. Clark is named after Andrew Inglis Clark, a Tasmanian jurist who was the principal author of the Australian Constitution. The electorate shares its name and boundaries with the federal division of Clark, and was created in September 2018 to replace the state division of Denison.

This article is about the state electorate. For the federal electorate, see Division of Clark.
Clark
Tasmania—House of Assembly
Location of Clark (dark green) in Tasmania
StateTasmania
Created2018
MPElise Archer (Liberal)
Ella Haddad (Labor)
Sue Hickey (Independent)
Cassy O'Connor (Greens)
Madeleine Ogilvie (Liberal)
PartyLabor (1), Liberal (2), Greens (1), Independent (1)
NamesakeAndrew Inglis Clark
Area292.62 km2 (113.0 sq mi)
DemographicInner metropolitan

Clark and the other House of Assembly electoral divisions are each represented by five members elected under the Hare-Clark electoral system (also named after Andrew Inglis Clark).

History and electoral profile

Clark was created when amendments to the Tasmanian Constitution Act 1934 gained Royal Assent on 28 September 2018,[1] aligning Tasmania's state electoral divisions with the federal divisions which had undergone a boundary redistribution, including renaming Denison to Clark, and was formally gazetted on 14 November 2017.[2]

The division is located on the western side of the Derwent River, covering a part of Kingborough and all of the Hobart and Glenorchy local government areas. Covering an area of 292.26 km² it is the smallest of Tasmania's five electoral divisions.

Representation

Distribution of seats

Members for Clark and Denison
Year Member Party Member Party Member Party Member Party Member Party Member Party Member Party
1909   Sir John Davies Anti-Socialist   Walter Woods Labor   William Sheridan Labor   Sir Elliott Lewis Anti-Socialist   Frederick Rattle Anti-Socialist   Edward Crowther Anti-Socialist
6 seats
(1909–1959)
1912   Liberal   Liberal   Vincent Barker Labor   Francis Valentine Liberal
1913   Lyndhurst Giblin Labor   William Fullerton Liberal
1914   William Sheridan Labor
1916   John Cleary Labor   William Burgess Liberal
1917   Charles Hoggins Nationalist   Nationalist   George Foster Nationalist   Nationalist
1919   Robert Cosgrove Labor   John McPhee Nationalist   Robert Snowden Nationalist
1922   Charles Grant Nationalist   Charles Culley Labor
1924   Leslie Payne Nationalist
1925   Robert Cosgrove Labor   Walter Woods Labor   John Soundy Nationalist
1928   Charles Grant Nationalist   Edmund Dwyer-Gray Labor
1931   Gerald Mahoney Labor   Ernest Turner Nationalist
1932   Arndell Lewis Nationalist
1934   Robert Cosgrove Labor   Charles Culley Labor   George Carruthers Independent
1937   Francis Heerey Labor   Arndell Lewis Nationalist
1941   Ernest Turner Nationalist
1941   Alfred White Labor   Charles Atkins Nationalist
1945   Francis Heerey Labor
1946   Robert Harvey Nationalist
1946   Horace Strutt Liberal   Liberal   Rex Townley Independent
1948   Henry Hope Labor   Bill Wedd Independent
1950   Frank Gaha Labor   Liberal
1953   Leo McPartlan Independent
1955   Bill Hodgman Liberal
1958   Eric Howroyd Labor
1959   Bert Lacey Labor
1959   Harry McLoughlin Labor   Charley Aylett Labor   Bill Wedd Independent   Sir Archibald Park Liberal
1959   Independent   Horace Strutt Liberal
1964   Independent
1964   Ken Austin Labor   Merv Everett Labor   Nigel Abbott Liberal   Robert Mather Liberal
1965   George Brown Liberal
1969   Neil Batt Labor   Bob Baker Liberal   Max Bingham Liberal
1972   Kevin Corby Labor
1974   Ian Cole Labor   John Green Labor
1976   Julian Amos Labor   Max Robinson Liberal
1979   John Devine Labor
1980   Norm Sanders Democrats   Bob Graham Labor   Gabriel Haros Liberal
1982   Geoff Davis Liberal   Peter Walker Liberal
1983   Bob Brown Independent Green
1984   Bob Graham Labor   Carmel Holmes Liberal
1986   Independent
1986   Neil Batt Labor   Judy Jackson Labor   Ray Groom Liberal   John White Labor   John Bennett Liberal
1987   John Barker Liberal
1989   Greens   David Crean Labor
1990   Chris Gibson Liberal
1992   Julian Amos Labor   Michael Hodgman Liberal
1993   Peg Putt Greens
1996   Jim Bacon Labor   Bob Cheek Liberal
1998
5 seats
(1998–2018)
2001   Michael Hodgman Liberal
2002   Graeme Sturges Labor
2004   David Bartlett Labor
2006   Lisa Singh Labor
2008   Cassy O'Connor Greens
2010   Scott Bacon Labor   Matthew Groom Liberal   Elise Archer Liberal
2011   Graeme Sturges Labor
2014   Madeleine Ogilvie Labor
2018   Ella Haddad Labor   Sue Hickey Liberal
2019   Madeleine Ogilvie Independent
2021   Liberal   Independent
2021   Kristie Johnston Independent

References
  1. "Constitution Amendment (House of Assembly Electoral Boundaries) Act 2018". Tasmanian Legislation. Government of Tasmania. Retrieved 13 December 2018.
  2. "Determination of names and boundaries of federal electoral divisions in Tasmania". Australian Electoral Commission. Retrieved 13 December 2018.

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