Members of the Western Australian Legislative Council, 1932–1934

This is a list of members of the Western Australian Legislative Council from 22 May 1932 to 21 May 1934. 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 Allsop[1]NationalistNorth-East19361930–1932
Charles BaxterCountryEast19381914–1950
Leonard BoltonNationalistMetropolitan19361932–1948
Alec ClydesdaleLaborMetropolitan-Suburban19381932–1938
James CornellNationalistSouth19361912–1946
Les Craig[3]NationalistSouth-West19361934–1956
John Drew[2]LaborCentral19361900–1918; 1924–1947
Charles Elliott[4]NationalistNorth-East19381934–1938
John Ewing[3]NationalistSouth-West19361916–1933
James FranklinNationalistMetropolitan19341928–1940
Gilbert FraserLaborWest19341928–1958
Edmund GrayLaborWest19381923–1952
Edmund HallCountryCentral19341928–1947
Vernon HamersleyCountryEast19341904–1946
Edgar Harris[4]NationalistNorth-East19381920–1934
Joseph HolmesIndependentNorth19381914–1942
Sir John KirwanIndependentSouth19381908–1946
William KitsonLaborWest19361924–1947
James MacfarlaneNationalistMetropolitan-Suburban19361922–1928; 1930–1942
William MannNationalistSouth-West19381926–1951
George MilesNationalistNorth19361916–1950
Richard Moore[1]NationalistNorth-East19361932–1936
Thomas MooreLaborCentral19381920–1926; 1932–1946
Sir Charles NathanNationalistMetropolitan-Suburban19341930–1934
John NicholsonNationalistMetropolitan19381918–1941
Harold PiesseInd. CountrySouth-East19381932–1946
Edwin RoseNationalistSouth-West19341916–1934
Harold SeddonNationalistNorth-East19341922–1954
Alec ThomsonCountrySouth-East19361931–1950
Charles WilliamsLaborSouth19341928–1948
Charles WittenoomCountrySouth-East19341928–1940
Sir Edward WittenoomNationalistNorth19341883–1884; 1885–1886;
1894–1898; 1902–1906;
1910–1934
Herbert YellandCountryEast19361924–1936

Notes

1 On 15 September 1932, North-East Province Nationalist MLC Frederick Allsop died. Nationalist candidate Richard Moore won the resulting by-election on 29 October 1932.
2 On 24 April 1933, Central Province Labor MLC John Drew was appointed Chief Secretary in the new Ministry led by Philip Collier. He was therefore required to resign and contest a ministerial by-election, at which he was returned unopposed on 2 May 1933.
3 On 30 November 1933, South-West Province Nationalist MLC John Ewing died. Nationalist candidate Les Craig won the resulting by-election on 20 January 1934.
4 On 13 February 1934, North-East Province Nationalist MLC Edgar Harris died. Nationalist candidate Charles Elliott won the resulting by-election on 17 March 1934.

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 Two, 1930-1990 (Revised ed.). Parliament House: Parliament of Western Australia. ISBN 0731697839.
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