Members of the Western Australian Legislative Council, 1968–1971

This is a list of members of the Western Australian Legislative Council from 22 May 1968 to 21 May 1971. The chamber had 30 seats made up of 15 provinces each electing two members, on a system of rotation whereby one-half of the members would retire at each triennial election.

Name Party Province Term expires Years in office
Charles AbbeyLiberalWest19711958–1977
Norm BaxterCountryCentral19711950–1958; 1960–1983
George BerryLiberalLower North19741968–1980
George BrandLiberalLower North19711965–1971
Roy ClaughtonLaborNorth Metropolitan19741968–1980
Leslie DiverCountryCentral19741952–1974
Jerry DolanLaborSouth-East Metropolitan19741963–1974
Vic FerryLiberalSouth-West19711965–1987
Jim Garrigan[2]LaborSouth-East19711954–1971
Arthur GriffithLiberalNorth Metropolitan19711953–1977
Clive GriffithsLiberalSouth-East Metropolitan19711965–1997
Jack HeitmanCountryUpper West19711963–1977
James HislopLiberalMetropolitan19711941–1971
Edward House[2]CountrySouth19711965–1971
John Hunt[1]LaborNorth19741971–1974
Ruby HutchisonLaborNorth-East Metropolitan19711954–1971
Frederick Lavery[2]LaborSouth Metropolitan19711952–1971
Les LoganCountryUpper West19741947–1974
Graham MacKinnonLiberalLower West19741956–1986
Neil McNeillLiberalLower West19711965–1983
Ian MedcalfLiberalMetropolitan19741968–1986
Thomas PerryCountryLower Central19711965–1977
Harry Strickland[1]LaborNorth19741950–1970
Claude StubbsLaborSouth-East19741962–1980
Ron ThompsonLaborSouth Metropolitan19741959–1980
Sydney ThompsonCountryLower Central19741960–1974
Jack ThomsonCountrySouth19741950–1974
Fred WhiteCountryWest19741967–1973
Bill WilleseeLaborNorth-East Metropolitan19741954–1974
Francis Drake WillmottLiberalSouth-West19741955–1974
Frank WiseLaborNorth19711956–1971

Notes
1 On 31 December 1970, North Province Labor MLC Harry Strickland resigned. Labor candidate John Hunt won the resulting by-election on 20 February 1971.
2 Three retiring MLCs died in the period leading to the 1971 election, and their positions were not filled. These were Labor members Frederick Lavery (12 January 1971) and Jim Garrigan (5 April 1971), and Country Party member Edward House (1 January 1971).

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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