Members of the Western Australian Legislative Council, 1958–1960

This is a list of members of the Western Australian Legislative Council from 22 May 1958 to 21 May 1960. 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.

The Constitution Acts Amendment Act (No.2) 1963 (No.72 of 1963) affected all terms concluding after 1962, as well as the provinces which members represented.

Name Party Province Term expires Years in office
Charles AbbeyLiberalCentral1964*1958–1977
George BennettsLaborSouth-East1964*1946–1965
John CunninghamLiberalSouth-East19621948–1954; 1955–1962
Evan DaviesLaborWest19621947–1963
Leslie DiverCountryCentral19621952–1974
Gilbert Fraser[1]LaborWest19601928–1958
Jim GarriganLaborSouth-East19601954–1971
Arthur GriffithLiberalSuburban1964*1953–1977
William HallLaborNorth-East1964*1938–1963
Eric HeenanLaborNorth-East19621936–1968
James HislopLiberalMetropolitan1964*1941–1971
Ruby HutchisonLaborSuburban19601954–1971
George JefferyLaborSuburban19621956–1962
Ray JonesCountryMidland19621950–1967
Sir Charles LathamCountryCentral19601946–1960
Frederick LaveryLaborWest1964*1952–1971
Les LoganCountryMidland19601947–1974
Anthony LotonCountrySouth1964*1944–1965
Graham MacKinnonLiberalSouth-West19621956–1986
Reg MattiskeLiberalMetropolitan19601956–1965
James MurrayLiberalSouth-West1964*1951–1965
Hugh RocheCountrySouth19601940–1960
Charles SimpsonCountryMidland1964*1946–1963
Harry StricklandLaborNorth19621950–1970
John TeahanLaborNorth-East19601954–1965
Ron Thompson[1]LaborWest19601959–1980
Jack ThomsonCountrySouth19621950–1974
Keith WatsonLiberalMetropolitan19621948–1968
Bill WilleseeLaborNorth19601954–1974
Francis Drake WillmottLiberalSouth-West19601955–1974
Frank WiseLaborNorth1964*1956–1971

Notes

1 On 1 November 1958, West Province Labor MLC Gilbert Fraser died. Labor candidate Ron Thompson won the resulting by-election on 7 February 1959.

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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