Members of the Western Australian Legislative Council, 1928–1930

This is a list of members of the Western Australian Legislative Council from 22 May 1928 to 21 May 1930. The chamber had 30 seats made up of ten provinces each electing three members, on a system of rotation whereby one-third of the members would retire at each biennial election.

Name Party Province Term
expires
Years in office
Charles Baxter[2]CountryEast19321914–1950
John Reid Brown[3]LaborNorth-East19301924–1930
James CornellNationalistSouth19301912–1946
John DrewLaborCentral19301900–1918; 1924–1947
John EwingNationalistSouth-West19301916–1933
James FranklinNationalistMetropolitan19341928–1940
Gilbert FraserLaborWest19341928–1958
William GlasheenCountrySouth-East19321925–1932
Edmund GrayLaborWest19321923–1952
Edmund HallCountryCentral19341928–1947
Vernon HamersleyCountryEast19341904–1946
Edgar HarrisNationalistNorth-East19321920–1934
Joseph HolmesIndependentNorth19321914–1942
George KemptonCountryCentral19321926–1932
John KirwanIndependentSouth19321908–1946
William KitsonLaborWest19301924–1947
Sir William LathlainNationalistMetropolitan-Suburban19321926–1932
Arthur LovekinNationalistMetropolitan19301919–1931
William MannNationalistSouth-West19321926–1951
George MilesIndependentNorth19301916–1950
Sir Charles Nathan[1]NationalistMetropolitan-Suburban19341930–1934
John NicholsonNationalistMetropolitan19321918–1941
Edwin RoseNationalistSouth-West19341916–1934
Athelstan Saw[1]NationalistMetropolitan-Suburban19341915–1929
Harold SeddonNationalistNorth-East19341922–1954
Henry StephensonNationalistMetropolitan-Suburban19301924–1930
Hector StewartCountrySouth-East19301917–1931
Charles WilliamsLaborSouth19341928–1948
Charles WittenoomCountrySouth-East19341928–1940
Sir Edward WittenoomNationalistNorth19341883–1884; 1885–1886;
1894–1898; 1902–1906;
1910–1934
Herbert YellandNationalistEast19301924–1936

Notes

1 On 28 November 1929, Metropolitan-Suburban Province Nationalist MLC Athelstan Saw died. Nationalist candidate Charles Nathan won the resulting by-election on 11 January 1930.
2 On 24 April 1930, East Province Country MLC Charles Baxter was appointed Minister for Country Water Supplies and Trading Concerns in the new Ministry led by Sir James Mitchell. He was therefore required to resign and contest a ministerial by-election, at which he was returned unopposed on 1 May 1930.
3 On 24 February 1930, North-East Province Labor MLC John Reid Brown died. The seat remained vacant until the 1930 elections on 10 May.

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.
  • Black, David; Bolton, Geoffrey (2001). Biographical Register of Members of the Parliament of Western Australia, Volume One, 1870–1930 (Revised ed.). Parliament House: Parliament of Western Australia. ISBN 0730738140.
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