Members of the Western Australian Legislative Council, 1944–1946
This is a list of members of the Western Australian Legislative Council from 22 May 1944 to 21 May 1946. 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.
Name | Party | Province | Term expires | Years in office |
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Charles Baxter | Country | East | 1946 | 1914–1950 |
Leonard Bolton | Nationalist | Metropolitan | 1950 | 1932–1948 |
Sir Hal Colebatch | Nationalist | Metropolitan | 1948 | 1912–1923; 1940–1948 |
James Cornell | Nationalist | South | 1950 | 1912–1946 |
Cyril Cornish | Independent | North | 1946 | 1942–1946 |
Les Craig | Nationalist | South-West | 1950 | 1934–1956 |
James Dimmitt | Nationalist | Metropolitan-Suburban | 1946 | 1938–1953 |
John Drew | Labor | Central | 1950 | 1900–1918; 1924–1947 |
Gilbert Fraser | Labor | West | 1948 | 1928–1958 |
Frank Gibson | Nationalist | Metropolitan-Suburban | 1950 | 1942–1956 |
Edmund Gray | Labor | West | 1946 | 1923–1952 |
Edmund Hall | Country | Central | 1948 | 1928–1947 |
William Hall | Labor | North-East | 1946 | 1938–1963 |
Vernon Hamersley | Country | East | 1948 | 1904–1946 |
Eric Heenan | Labor | North-East | 1950 | 1936–1968 |
James Hislop | Nationalist | Metropolitan | 1946 | 1941–1971 |
Sir John Kirwan | Independent | South | 1946 | 1908–1946 |
William Kitson | Labor | West | 1950 | 1924–1947 |
Anthony Loton[1] | Country | South-East | 1946 | 1944–1965 |
William Mann | Nationalist | South-West | 1946 | 1926–1951 |
George Miles | Independent | North | 1950 | 1916–1950 |
Thomas Moore | Labor | Central | 1946 | 1920–1926; 1932–1946 |
Hubert Parker | Nationalist | Metropolitan-Suburban | 1948 | 1934–1954 |
Harold Piesse[1] | Country | South-East | 1946 | 1932–1946 |
Hugh Roche | Country | South-East | 1948 | 1940–1960 |
Harold Seddon | Nationalist | North-East | 1948 | 1922–1954 |
Alec Thomson | Country | South-East | 1950 | 1931–1950 |
Hobart Tuckey | Nationalist | South-West | 1948 | 1934–1951 |
Frank Welsh | Nationalist | North | 1948 | 1940–1954 |
Charles Williams | Labor | South | 1948 | 1928–1948 |
Garnet Barrington Wood | Country | East | 1950 | 1936–1952 |
Notes
- 1 On 16 September 1944, South-East Province Country MLC Harold Piesse died. Anthony Loton, one of the three Country Party candidates, won the resulting by-election on 18 November 1944.
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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