- Members of the Western Australian Legislative Council, 1934–1936
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This is a list of members of the Western Australian Legislative Council from 22 May 1934 to 21 May 1936. 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
expiresYears in office Edward Angelo Nationalist North 1940 1934–1940 Charles Baxter Country East 1938 1914–1950 Leonard Bolton Nationalist Metropolitan 1936 1932–1948 Alec Clydesdale Labor Metropolitan-Suburban 1938 1932–1938 James Cornell Nationalist South 1936 1912–1946 Les Craig Nationalist South-West 1936 1934–1956 John Drew Labor Central 1936 1900–1918; 1924–1947 Charles Elliott Nationalist North-East 1938 1934–1938 James Franklin[1] Nationalist Metropolitan 1940 1928–1940 Gilbert Fraser Labor West 1940 1928–1958 Edmund Gray Labor West 1938 1923–1952 Edmund Hall Country Central 1940 1928–1947 Vernon Hamersley Country East 1940 1904–1946 Joseph Holmes Independent North 1938 1914–1942 Sir John Kirwan Independent South 1938 1908–1946 William Kitson Labor West 1936 1924–1947 James Macfarlane Nationalist Metropolitan-Suburban 1936 1922–1928; 1930–1942 William Mann Nationalist South-West 1938 1926–1951 George Miles Ind. Nat. North 1936 1916–1950 Richard Moore Nationalist North-East 1936 1932–1936 Thomas Moore Labor Central 1938 1920–1926; 1932–1946 John Nicholson Nationalist Metropolitan 1938 1918–1941 Hubert Parker Nationalist Metropolitan-Suburban 1940 1934–1954 Harold Piesse Ind. Country South-East 1938 1932–1946 Harold Seddon Nationalist North-East 1940 1922–1954 Alec Thomson Country South-East 1936 1931–1950 Hobart Tuckey Nationalist South-West 1940 1934–1951 Charles Williams Labor South 1940 1928–1948 Charles Wittenoom Country South-East 1940 1928–1940 Herbert Yelland Country East 1936 1924–1936 Notes
- 1 At the 12 May 1934 elections, James George, a fellow Nationalist candidate, won the Metropolitan Province seat from incumbent member James Franklin on Labor preferences (both candidates got 1,991 primary votes). Upon a petition to the Court of Disputed Returns, Franklin was declared elected on 21 November 1934 without a by-election.
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 0-9097-7918-X.
- Black, David and Bolton, Geoffrey (2001). Biographical Register of Members of the Parliament of Western Australia, Volume Two, 1930-1990 (Revised Edition ed.). Parliament House: Parliament of Western Australia. ISBN 0731697839.
Members of the Parliament of Western Australia Legislative Council
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Categories:- Members of Western Australian parliaments by term
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