Members of the Western Australian Legislative Council, 1940–1944

This is a list of members of the Western Australian Legislative Council from 22 May 1940 to 21 May 1944. 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.

On 16 January 1942, the Governor assented to the Legislative Council (Postponement of Election) Act 1941 (No. 50 of 1941), which extended the terms of all Councillors whose terms expired on 21 May 1942. This was done, in the words of the Act's preamble, due to the "pressing national emergency arising out of the war with Japan in which the Commonwealth of Australia is presently engaged". Later amendments fixed the date as 21 May 1944, and extended all other Councillors' terms by two years.

Name Party Province Term
expires		 Years in office
Charles BaxterCountryEast19461914–1950
Leonard BoltonNationalistMetropolitan19441932–1948
Sir Hal ColebatchNationalistMetropolitan19481912–1923; 1940–1948
James CornellNationalistSouth19441912–1946
Cyril Cornish[2]IndependentNorth19461942–1946
Les CraigNationalistSouth-West19441934–1956
James DimmittNationalistMetropolitan-Suburban19461938–1953
John DrewLaborCentral19441900–1918; 1924–1947
Gilbert FraserLaborWest19481928–1958
Frank Gibson[3]NationalistMetropolitan-Suburban19441942–1956
Edmund GrayLaborWest19461923–1952
Edmund HallCountryCentral19481928–1947
William HallLaborNorth-East19461938–1963
Vernon HamersleyCountryEast19481904–1946
Eric HeenanLaborNorth-East19441936–1968
James Hislop[1]NationalistMetropolitan19461941–1971
Joseph Holmes[2]IndependentNorth19461914–1942
Sir John KirwanIndependentSouth19461908–1946
William KitsonLaborWest19441924–1947
James Macfarlane[3]NationalistMetropolitan-Suburban19441922–1928; 1930–1942
William MannNationalistSouth-West19461926–1951
George MilesInd. Nat.North19441916–1950
Thomas MooreLaborCentral19461920–1926; 1932–1946
John Nicholson[1]NationalistMetropolitan19461918–1941
Hubert ParkerNationalistMetropolitan-Suburban19481934–1954
Harold PiesseCountrySouth-East19461932–1946
Hugh RocheCountrySouth-East19481940–1960
Harold SeddonNationalistNorth-East19481922–1954
Alec ThomsonCountrySouth-East19441931–1950
Hobart TuckeyNationalistSouth-West19481934–1951
Frank WelshNationalistNorth19481940–1954
Charles WilliamsLaborSouth19481928–1948
Garnet Barrington WoodCountryEast19441936–1952

Notes
1 On 16 September 1941, Metropolitan Province Nationalist MLC John Nicholson died. James Hislop, one of the Nationalist candidates, won the resulting by-election on 1 November 1941.
2 On 25 April 1942, North Province Independent MLC Joseph Holmes died. Independent candidate Cyril Cornish won the resulting by-election on 13 June 1942.
3 On 16 May 1942, Metropolitan-Suburban Province Nationalist MLC James Macfarlane died. Unendorsed Nationalist candidate Frank Gibson won the resulting by-election on 11 July 1942.

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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