Members of the Western Australian Legislative Council, 1950–1952

This is a list of members of the Western Australian Legislative Council from 22 May 1950 to 21 May 1952. 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.

Several of the provinces were renamed at the election. The Electoral Districts Act 1947 had obviated the need for Parliament to redistribute seats itself, instead appointing three Electoral Commissioners who were to review the boundaries according to certain defined criteria. The redistribution was gazetted on 21 December 1948, but did not come into effect until 22 May 1950.

The changes of names were as follows:

  • Central Province → Midland Province
  • East Province → Central Province
  • Metropolitan-Suburban Province → Suburban Province
  • South Province → South-East Province
  • South-East Province → South Province
Name Party Province Term expires Years in office
Charles Baxter[1]CountryCentral19521914–1950
Norm Baxter[1]CountryCentral19521950–1958; 1960–1983
George BennettsLaborSouth-East19521946–1965
Robert BoylenLaborSouth-East19561947–1955
Les CraigLiberalSouth-West19561934–1956
John CunninghamLiberalSouth-East19481948–1954; 1955–1962
Evan DaviesLaborWest19561947–1963
James DimmittLiberalSuburban19521938–1953
Leslie Diver[4]CountryCentral19561952–1974
Mervyn ForrestLiberalNorth19521946–1952
Gilbert FraserLaborWest19541928–1958
Sir Frank GibsonLiberalSuburban19561942–1956
Edmund GrayLaborWest19521923–1952
William HallLaborNorth-East19521938–1963
Harry HearnLiberalMetropolitan19541948–1956
Eric HeenanLaborNorth-East19561936–1968
Charles Henning[2]LiberalSouth-West19541951–1955
James HislopLiberalMetropolitan19521941–1971
Ray JonesCountryMidland19561950–1967
Sir Charles LathamCountryCentral19541946–1960
Les LoganCountryMidland19541947–1974
Anthony LotonCountrySouth19521944–1965
William Mann[3]LiberalSouth-West19521926–1951
James Murray[3]LiberalSouth-West19521951–1965
Hubert ParkerLiberalSuburban19541934–1954
Hugh RocheCountrySouth19541940–1960
Sir Harold SeddonLiberalNorth-East19541922–1954
Charles SimpsonLiberalMidland19521946–1963
Harry StricklandLaborNorth19561950–1970
Jack ThomsonCountrySouth19561950–1974
Hobart Tuckey[2]LiberalSouth-West19541934–1951
Keith WatsonLiberalMetropolitan19561948–1968
Frank WelshLiberalNorth19541940–1954
Garnet Barrington Wood[4]CountryCentral19561936–1952

Notes
1 On 2 March 1950, Central (formerly East) Province Country MLC Charles Baxter died. His son Norm Baxter won the resulting by-election on 6 May 1950.
2 On 10 March 1951, South-West Province Liberal MLC Hobart Tuckey died. Liberal candidate Charles Henning won the resulting by-election on 2 June 1951.
3 On 22 April 1951, South-West Province Liberal MLC William Mann died. Liberal candidate James Murray won the resulting by-election on 2 June 1951.
4 On 3 January 1952, Central (formerly East) Province Country MLC Garnet Barrington Wood died. Country Party candidate Leslie Diver won the resulting by-election on 3 May 1952.

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.
  • "Electoral Districts Act 1947 - Order in Council". Western Australia Government Gazette. 21 December 1948. p. 1948:3027-3036.
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