Members of the Western Australian Legislative Council, 1930–1932

This is a list of members of the Western Australian Legislative Council from 22 May 1930 to 21 May 1932. 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
Frederick AllsopNationalistNorth-East19361930–1932
Charles BaxterCountryEast19321914–1950
Leonard Bolton[2]NationalistMetropolitan19361932–1948
James CornellNationalistSouth19361912–1946
John DrewLaborCentral19361900–1918; 1924–1947
John EwingNationalistSouth-West19361916–1933
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
Sir John KirwanIndependentSouth19321908–1946
William KitsonLaborWest19361924–1947
Sir William LathlainNationalistMetropolitan-Suburban19321926–1932
Arthur Lovekin[2]NationalistMetropolitan19361919–1931
James MacfarlaneNationalistMetropolitan-Suburban19361922–1928; 1930–1942
William MannNationalistSouth-West19321926–1951
George MilesNationalistNorth19361916–1950
Sir Charles NathanNationalistMetropolitan-Suburban19341930–1934
John NicholsonNationalistMetropolitan19321918–1941
Edwin RoseNationalistSouth-West19341916–1934
Harold SeddonNationalistNorth-East19341922–1954
Hector Stewart[1]CountrySouth-East19361917–1931
Alec Thomson[1]CountrySouth-East19361931–1950
Charles WilliamsLaborSouth19341928–1948
Charles WittenoomCountrySouth-East19341928–1940
Sir Edward WittenoomNationalistNorth19341883–1884; 1885–1886;
1894–1898; 1902–1906;
1910–1934
Herbert YellandNationalistEast19361924–1936

Notes

1 On 9 August 1931, South-East Province Country MLC Hector Stewart died. Country candidate Alec Thomson won the resulting by-election on 26 September 1931.
2 On 10 December 1931, Metropolitan Province Nationalist MLC Arthur Lovekin died. Nationalist candidate Leonard Bolton won the resulting by-election on 6 February 1932.

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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