Members of the Western Australian Legislative Council, 1896–1898

This is a list of members of the Western Australian Legislative Council from 27 July 1896 to 9 May 1898. The chamber had 21 seats made up of seven provinces each electing three members, on a system of rotation whereby one-third of the members would retire at each biennial election. The Constitution Act Amendment Act 1896, which passed after the 1896 Council election, created a new seat of North-East Province, which had its inaugural election on 29 June 1897 with terms expiring in 1904, 1902 and 1900.

Name Province Term
expires
Years in office
William AlexanderCentral18981895–1898
Henry BriggsWest18981896–1919
R. G. BurgesEast18981894–1903
Daniel Keen CongdonWest19001887–1890; 1892–1900
Frederick CrowderSouth-East19001894–1900; 1901–1902
Charles DempsterEast19001873–1874; 1894–1907
John Winthrop HackettSouth-West19001890–1916
Richard Septimus HaynesCentral19021896–1902
Samuel Johnson HaynesSouth-East18981894–1910
Andrew HenningNorth-East18981897–1898
Alfred KidsonWest19021895–1902
Donald McDonald MacKayNorth19021896–1902
Edward McLartySouth-West18981894–1916
Alexander MathesonNorth-East19021897–1901
Stephen Henry Parker[1]Metropolitan18981878–1888; 1889–1890;
1892–1897
Harold ParsonsNorth-East19001897–1900
Charles PiesseSouth-East19021894–1914
George Randell[1]Metropolitan18981875–1878; 1880–1890;
1893–1894; 1897–1910
John RichardsonNorth18981894–1904
Henry SaundersMetropolitan19021894–1902; 1918–1919
Sir George ShentonMetropolitan19001870–1873; 1875–1906
William SpencerSouth-West19021896–1901
Frank StoneNorth19001894–1906
John Howard TaylorEast19021896–1899
Edward WittenoomCentral19001883–1884; 1885–1886;
1894–1898; 1902–1906;
1910–1934

Notes

1 On 28 April 1897, Stephen Henry Parker (Metropolitan Province) resigned, and a by-election was held on 28 May 1897, at which George Randell was elected to fill the remainder of the term.

Sources

  • Black, David (1991). Legislative Council of Western Australia : membership register, electoral law and statistics, 1890-1989. Perth: Parliamentary History Project. ISBN 0-7309-3641-4.
  • Hughes, Colin A.; Aitkin, Don (1986). Voting for the Australian State Upper Houses, 1890-1984. Canberra: Australian National University. ISBN 0-909779-18-X.
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