Members of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly, 1930–1933

This is a list of members of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly between the 1930 election and the 1933 election, together known as the 14th Parliament. It took place under radically altered boundaries as enacted within the Redistribution of Seats Act 1929, whose effect had been exaggerated by the lack of a redistribution for the previous 18 years. The gold mining areas, populous at the time of the 1911 redistribution, had been reduced to pocket boroughs by the decline in gold mining as an economic activity in the State; meanwhile, the agricultural and metropolitan areas had grown substantially. Ironically, the changes were enacted by a Labor government even though most of the safe seats being abolished were Labor seats—and for the fourth time in a row (Constitution Act Amendment Act 1899, and Redistribution of Seats Acts of 1904, 1911 and 1929), the government enacting the redistribution lost the subsequent election.

Name Party District Years in office
Edward AngeloNationalistGascoyne1917–1933
George BarnardNationalistSussex1924–1933
Henry BrownCountryPingelly1924–1933
John Church[2]NationalistRoebourne1932–1933
Hon Philip CollierLaborBoulder1905–1948
Edwin CorboyLaborYilgarn-Coolgardie1921–1933
Aubrey CoverleyLaborKimberley1924–1953
James CunninghamLaborKalgoorlie1923–1936
Hon Thomas Davy[1][5]NationalistWest Perth1924–1933
Victor DoneyCountryWilliams-Narrogin1928–1956
Hon Percy Ferguson[1]CountryIrwin-Moore1927–1939
Harry GriffithsCountryAvon1914–1921; 1924–1935
James HegneyLaborMiddle Swan1930–1947; 1950–1968
May HolmanLaborForrest1925–1939
William JohnsonLaborGuildford-Midland1901–1905; 1906–1917;
1924–1948
Hon Norbert Keenan[1]NationalistNedlands1904–1911; 1930–1950
James KenneallyLaborEast Perth1927–1936
Alfred LamondLaborPilbara1924–1933
Hon Charles Latham[1]CountryYork1921–1942
Hon John Lindsay[1]CountryMount Marshall1924–1933
John Lutey[4]LaborBrownhill-Ivanhoe1916; 1917–1932
Alick McCallumLaborSouth Fremantle1921–1935
Ross McLartyNationalistMurray-Wellington1930–1962
Harry MannNationalistPerth1921–1933
James MannCountryBeverley1930–1962
William MarshallLaborMurchison1921–1952
Harry MillingtonLaborMount Hawthorn1924–1947
Hon Sir James Mitchell[1]NationalistNortham1905–1933
Selby MunsieLaborHannans1911–1938
Charles NorthNationalistClaremont1924–1956
Emil Nulsen[3]LaborKanowna1932–1962
Alexander PantonLaborLeederville1924–1951
Hubert ParkerNationalistNorth-East Fremantle1930–1933
William PatrickCountryGreenough1930–1943
Arnold PiesseIndependent/CountryKatanning1909–1914; 1930–1935
Howard RaphaelLaborVictoria Park1930–1944
Walter RichardsonNationalistSubiaco1921–1933
Richard SampsonNationalist/CountrySwan1921–1944
Hon John Scaddan[1]NationalistMaylands1904–1917; 1919–1924;
1930–1933
Joseph SleemanLaborFremantle1924–1959
Frederick Smith[4]LaborBrown Hill-Ivanhoe1932–1950
James MacCallum SmithNationalistNorth Perth1914–1939
John Henry SmithNationalistNelson1921–1936; 1939–1943
Sydney StubbsCountryWagin1911–1947
Frederick Teesdale[2]NationalistRoebourne1917–1931
Lindsay ThornCountryToodyay1930–1959
Hon Michael TroyLaborMount Magnet1904–1939
Thomas Walker[3]LaborKanowna1905–1932
Arthur WansbroughLaborAlbany1924–1936
Herbert WellsNationalistCanning1930–1933
John WillcockLaborGeraldton1917–1947
Arthur WilsonLaborCollie1908–1947
Frederick WithersLaborBunbury1924–1947

Notes

1 Following the 1930 state election a new Ministry consisting of seven members, including one Member of the Legislative Council, was appointed on 24 April 1930. These members were therefore required to resign and contest ministerial by-elections on 1 May 1930, at which all were returned unopposed.
2 On 14 December 1931, the Nationalist member for Roebourne, Frederick Teesdale, died. Nationalist candidate John Church won the resulting by-election held on 6 February 1932.
3 On 10 May 1932, the Labor member for Kanowna, Thomas Walker. Labor candidate Emil Nulsen won the resulting by-election held on 25 June 1932.
4 On 22 June 1932, the Labor member for Brownhill-Ivanhoe, John Lutey, died. Labor candidate Frederick Smith was elected unopposed on 14 July 1932.
5 On 18 February 1933, Nationalist member and Minister Thomas Davy died suddenly while playing bridge with his wife and two friends at the Savoy Hotel. A by-election was not held due to the proximity of the 1933 state election.

Sources

  • Black, David; Prescott, Valerie (1997). Election statistics, Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, 1890-1996. Perth: Parliamentary History Project. ISBN 0-7309-8409-5.
  • Hughes, Colin A.; Graham, B. D. (1976). Voting for the South Australian, Western Australian and Tasmanian Lower Houses, 1890-1964. Canberra: Australian National University. ISBN 0-7081-1334-6.
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