Members of the Western Australian Legislative Council, 1980–1983

This is a list of members of the Western Australian Legislative Council from 22 May 1980 to 21 May 1983. 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.

Name Party Province Term expires Years in office
Norm BaxterNational/NCPCentral19831950–1958; 1960–1983
Joe BerinsonLaborNorth-East Metropolitan19861980–1993
James BrownLaborSouth-East19861980–1992
Des DansLaborSouth Metropolitan19831971–1989
Peter DowdingLaborNorth19861980–1986
Lyla ElliottLaborNorth-East Metropolitan19831971–1986
Vic FerryLiberalSouth-West19831965–1987
Harry GayferNational/NCPCentral19861974–1989
Clive GriffithsLiberalSouth-East Metropolitan19831965–1997
Bob HetheringtonLaborEast Metropolitan19861977–1989
Garry Kelly[1]LaborSouth Metropolitan19861982–1993
Thomas KnightLiberalSouth19861974–1986
Ron LeesonLaborSouth-East19831971–1983
Sandy LewisLiberalLower Central19861974–1989
Phil LockyerLiberalLower North19861980–1997
Margaret McAleerLiberalUpper West19861974–1993
Fred McKenzieLaborEast Metropolitan19831977–1993
Graham MacKinnonLiberalSouth West19861956–1986
Tom McNeilNational/NPUpper West19831977–1989
Neil McNeillLiberalLower West19831965–1983
Gordon MastersLiberalWest19861974–1989
Ian MedcalfLiberalMetropolitan19861968–1986
Norman MooreLiberalLower North19831977–2013
Neil OliverLiberalWest19831977–1989
Howard Olney[1]LaborSouth Metropolitan19861980–1981
Phillip PendalLiberalSouth-East Metropolitan19861980–1993
Winifred PiesseNational/NCPLower Central19831977–1983
Bob PikeLiberalNorth Metropolitan19831977–1983; 1989–1994
Ian PrattLiberalLower West19861974–1986
Tom Stephens[2]LaborNorth19831982–2004
Peter WellsLiberalNorth Metropolitan19861980–1986
John WilliamsLiberalMetropolitan19831971–1989
Bill Withers[2]Liberal/IndependentNorth19831971–1982
David WordsworthLiberalSouth19831971–1993

Notes
1 On 16 December 1981, South Metropolitan Province Labor MLC Howard Olney resigned in order to be appointed to the Supreme Court of Western Australia. Labor candidate Garry Kelly won the resulting by-election on 13 March 1982.
2 On 21 May 1982, North Province MLC Bill Withers, who had been elected as a Liberal but had resigned from the party in May 1981, resigned. Labor candidate Tom Stephens won the resulting by-election on 31 July 1982.

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 (April 1982). "Australian Political Chronicle: July–December 1981". Australian Journal of Politics and History. 28 (1): 115–116. ISSN 0004-9522.
  • 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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