Members of the Western Australian Legislative Council, 1977–1980

This is a list of members of the Western Australian Legislative Council from 22 May 1977 to 21 May 1980. The chamber had 32 seats made up of 16 provinces each electing two members, on a system of rotation whereby one-half of the members would retire at each triennial election. A new province, East Metropolitan, was added at the 1977 election. During the term, the National Country Party split in two over the issue of coalition with the Liberal Party, with supporters of the Coalition remaining in the National Country Party (NCP), and opponents creating a new National Party (NP). They reunited in 1985.

Name Party Province Term expires Years in office
Norm BaxterNational/NCPCentral19831950–1958; 1960–1983
George BerryLiberalLower North19801968–1980
Roy ClaughtonLaborNorth Metropolitan19801968–1980
Don CooleyLaborNorth-East Metropolitan19801974–1980
Des DansLaborSouth Metropolitan19831971–1989
Lyla ElliottLaborNorth-East Metropolitan19831971–1986
Vic FerryLiberalSouth-West19831965–1987
Harry GayferNational/NCPCentral19801974–1989
Clive GriffithsLiberalSouth-East Metropolitan19831965–1997
Bob HetheringtonLaborEast Metropolitan19801977–1989
Thomas KnightLiberalSouth19801974–1986
Ron LeesonLaborSouth-East19831971–1983
Sandy LewisLiberalLower Central19801974–1989
Margaret McAleerLiberalUpper West19801974–1993
Fred McKenzieLaborEast Metropolitan19831977–1993
Graham MacKinnonLiberalSouth West19801956–1986
Thomas McNeilNational/NPUpper West19831977–1989
Neil McNeillLiberalLower West19831965–1983
Gordon MastersLiberalWest19801974–1989
Ian MedcalfLiberalMetropolitan19801968–1986
Norman MooreLiberalLower North19831977–2013
Neil OliverLiberalWest19831977–1989
Winifred PiesseNational/NCPLower Central19831977–1983
Bob PikeLiberalNorth Metropolitan19831977–1983; 1989–1994
Ian PrattLiberalLower West19801974–1986
Claude StubbsLaborSouth-East19801962–1980
Ronald ThompsonLabor/IndependentSouth Metropolitan19801959–1980
John TozerLiberalNorth19801974–1980
Grace VaughanLaborSouth-East Metropolitan19801974–1980
Richard WilliamsLiberalMetropolitan19831971–1989
Bill WithersLiberalNorth19831971–1982
David WordsworthLiberalSouth19831971–1993

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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