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Results of All Countbacks to Fill House of Assembly Casual Vacancies, under the Tasmanian Electoral Act, for the 43 years from 1965 to 2008
Date	Electorate (Click on link to see result of its preceding General Election)	Vacating MHA		Replacement MHA		Percentage of Quota of  Vacating MHA gained by Replacement on Distribution of Preferences (%)
		Name	Party	Name	Party
10JL1965	Denison	Reginald Townley	Liberal	George Brown	Liberal	51.5%
27OC1966	Franklin	Thomas Pearsall	Liberal	Eric Iles	Liberal	51.3%
25OC1968	Bass	John Steer	Liberal	James Henty	Liberal	50.1%
10MY1969	1969 GENERAL ELECTIONS FOR THE HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY
22AP1972	1972 GENERAL ELECTIONS FOR THE HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY
27AP1974	Denison	Mervyn Everett	Labor	Ian Cole	Labor	57.7%
26JL1974	Bass	Allan Foster	Labor	Harold Holgate**	Labor	51.0%
26JL1974	Wilmot	Roy Fagan	Labor	Charles Batt	Labor	51.2%
17AU1974	Denison	Kevin Corby	Labor	John Green	LABOR	50.9%
12AP1975	Braddon	Eric Reece	Labor	Joseph Britton	Labor	50.4%
16MY1975	Braddon	Lloyd Costello	Labor	John Coughlan	Labor	66.5%
10JL1975	Wilmot	Sir Angus Bethune	Liberal	Ian Braid	Liberal	51.9%
11DE1976	1976 GENERAL ELECTIONS FOR THE HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY
12DE1977	Franklin	William Neilson	Labor	William McKinnon	Labor	51.2%
28JL1979	1979 GENERAL ELECTIONS FOR THE HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY
28SE1979	Franklin	Eric Barnard	Labor	William McKinnon	Labor	62.9%
08SE1980	Denison	Neil Batt	Labor	Robert Graham	LABOR	51.8%
15MY1982	1982 GENERAL ELECTIONS FOR THE HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY
04JA1983	Denison	Norman Sanders	Australian Democrats	Robert Brown	GREENS	50.2%*
25JE1984	Denison	Maxwell Bingham	Liberal	Carmel Holmes	Liberal	95.4%
25JE1984	Denison	John Devine	Labor	Robert Graham	LABOR	58.3%
10AU1984	Bass	Michael Barnard	Labor	Peter Patmore	Labor	53.8%
08FE1986	1986 GENERAL ELECTIONS FOR THE HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY
14JL1987	Lyons	Darrel Baldock	Labor	Christopher Batt	Labor	50.5%
29SE1987	Denison	Geoffrey Davis	Liberal	John Barker	Liberal	51.0%
14NO1988	Franklin	Geoffrey Pearsall	Liberal	John Cleary	Liberal	64.8%
13MY1989	1989 GENERAL ELECTIONS FOR THE HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY
15FE1990	Denison	John Bennett	Liberal	Christopher Gibson	Liberal	50.7%
06AU1990	Franklin	Nicholas Evers	Liberal	Brian Davison	Liberal	58.9%
15OC1990	Franklin	Kenneth Wriedt	Labor	Paul Lennon**	Labor	53.5%
02FE1992	1992 GENERAL ELECTIONS FOR THE HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY
26FE1993	Denison	Robert Brown	Greens	Peg Putt	Greens	82.2%
10AP1995	Franklin	Michael Aird	Labor	John Sheppard	Labor	50.4%
15MY1995	Franklin	Gerard Bates	Greens	Michael Foley	Greens	74.3%
15DE1995	Lyons	Robin Gray	Liberal	Denise Swan	Liberal	51.7%
24FE1996	1996 GENERAL ELECTIONS FOR THE HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY
15JL1997	Braddon	Michael Field	Labor	Michael Gard	Labor	61.7%
15JL1997	Braddon	Roger Groom	Liberal	Carole Cains	Liberal	64.9%
29AU1998	1998 GENERAL ELECTIONS FOR THE HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY
14MH2000	Bass	Francis Madill	Liberal	David Fry	Liberal	51.2%
21AU2001	Denison	Raymond Groom	Liberal	Michael Hodgman	Liberal	78.5%
19OC2001	Franklin	Peter Hodgman	Liberal	Martin McManus	Liberal	58.8%
22AP2002	Franklin	Fran Bladel	Labor	Neville Oliver	Labor	51.0%
20JL2002	2002 GENERAL ELECTIONS FOR THE HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY
01AP2004	Denison	James Bacon	Labor	David Bartlett	Labor	51.3%
10MY2005	Lyons	Kenneth Bacon	Labor	Heather Butler	Labor	52.5%
18MH2006	2006 GENERAL ELECTIONS FOR THE HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY
27MY2008	Franklin	Paul Lennon**	Labor	Ross Butler	Labor	54.5%
21JL2008	Denison	Peg Putt	Greens	Cassy O'Connor	Greens	70.3%
The above information was obtained from Reports on Parliamentary Elections by the Tasmanian Electoral Commission, and from the Web site of the Tasmanian Parliamentary Library. *Dr Norman Sanders's Resignation: Dr Norman Sanders, the Director of the Tasmanian Wilderness Society before his election as a Member of the House of Assembly, was elected as an Australian Democrats candidate in the 1982 General Election. This was a period when the Tasmanian Wilderness Society was much more active in Tasmania than the Australian Democrats were. Dr Sanders resigned his Assembly seat to successfully stand for the Australian Senate, as a member of the Australian Democrats party.  At the by-election countback, Dr Robert Brown, who had succeeded Dr Sanders as the Director of the Tasmanian Wilderness Society, and who, as a leading conservationist, was very much better known than any of the Australian Democrats candidates, received at least 50.2% of the next available preference votes (an absolute majority, at which point further distribution of preferences is not required) in the quota of votes that had elected Dr Sanders. (To view details of the countback scrutiny that elected Dr Bob Brown, click here)  The other four Australian Democrats candidates that had stood at the 1982 General Election with Dr Sanders together received only 37.0% of Dr Sanders' quota after distribution of preferences of all other candidates apart from Robert Graham, of the Australian Labor Party, who had filled a casual vacancy in 1980, and also later in 1984. Mr Graham received the remaining 12.8% of Dr Sanders's quota. ** Double asterisks indicate each of those two MHAs first elected by countback that later became a Premier of Tasmania.