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"Division of Denison (state)" redirects here. For the former federal electorate, see Division of Denison.
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Clark
Tasmania—House of Assembly
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Location of Clark (dark green) in Tasmania
State Tasmania
Created 2018 (Clark)
1909 (Denison)
MP Elise Archer (Liberal)
Ella Haddad (Labor)
Kristie Johnston (Independent)
Cassy O'Connor (Greens)
Madeleine Ogilvie (Liberal)
Party Labor (1), Liberal (2), Greens (1), Independent (1)
Namesake Andrew Inglis Clark
Electors 74,397 (2018)
Area 292.62 km2 (113.0 sq mi)
Demographic Inner metropolitan


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.

The electorate was renamed from the electoral division of Denison in September 2018. Denison was named after Sir William Denison, who was Lieutenant Governor of Van Diemen's Land (1847–55), and Governor of New South Wales (1855–61). The renaming of the electorate to Clark was in line with the renaming of the federal division of Denison to Clark.

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 renamed from the Denison when amendments to the Tasmanian Constitution Act 1934 gained Royal Assent on 28 September 2018, 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.

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–present)
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
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