Electoral district of Mount Margaret

Mount Margaret was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Western Australia from 1901 to 1930, located in what is now the Shire of Laverton in the northeastern Goldfields region.

Mount Margaret
Western AustraliaLegislative Assembly
StateWestern Australia
Dates current1901–1930
NamesakeMount Margaret

The district had just the one member over the course of its 29-year existence. George 'Mulga' Taylor was first elected as the Labor Party candidate for seat at the 1901 state election. He later left the Labor Party with several other pro-conscriptionists during World War I, eventually ending his tenure in parliament as a member of the Nationalist Party.

Members

MembersPartyTerm
  George Taylor Labor 1901–1917
  National Labor 1917–1924
  Nationalist 1924–1930


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.