Members of the Western Australian Legislative Council, 1924–1926

This is a list of members of the Western Australian Legislative Council from 22 May, 1924 to 21 May, 1926. 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. In the previous term, the Country Party split into rival Ministerial (MCP) and Executive (ECP) factions. The Executive faction, loyal to the Primary Producers' Association, prevailed and by 1925 the Ministerial faction had merged with the remnants of the National Labor Party into the Nationalist Party.

Name Party Province Term
expires
Years in office
Charles Baxter Country East 1926 1914–1950
John Reid Brown Labor North-East 1930 1924–1930
Alfred Burvill Country South-East 1928 1922–1928
James Cornell National Labor /
Nationalist
South 1930 1912–1946
Jabez Dodd National Labor/
Nationalist
South 1928 1910–1928
John Drew Labor Central 1930 1900–1918; 1924–1947
Joseph Duffell Nationalist Metropolitan-Suburban 1926 1914–1926
John Ewing Nationalist South-West 1930 1916–1933
William Glasheen[1] Country South-East 1926 1925–1932
Edmund Gray Labor West 1926 1923–1952
James Greig[1] Country South-East 1926 1916–1925
Vernon Hamersley Country East 1928 1904–1946
Edgar Harris Nationalist North-East 1926 1920–1934
James Hickey Labor Central 1928 1916–1928
Joseph Holmes Independent North 1926 1914–1942
John Kirwan Independent South 1926 1908–1946
William Kitson Labor West 1930 1924–1947
Arthur Lovekin Nationalist Metropolitan 1930 1919–1931
James Macfarlane Nationalist Metropolitan 1928 1922–1928; 1930–1942
George Miles Independent North 1930 1916–1950
Thomas Moore Labor Central 1926 1920–1926; 1932–1946
John Nicholson Nationalist Metropolitan 1926 1918–1941
George Potter Nationalist West 1928 1922–1928
Edwin Rose Nationalist South-West 1928 1916–1934
Athelstan Saw Nationalist Metropolitan-Suburban 1928 1915–1929
Harold Seddon Nationalist North-East 1928 1922–1954
Henry Stephenson Nationalist Metropolitan-Suburban 1930 1924–1930
Hector Stewart Country South-East 1930 1917–1931
Francis Willmott Country South-West 1926 1921–1926
Sir Edward Wittenoom Nationalist North 1928 1883–1884; 1885–1886;
1894–1898; 1902–1906;
1910–1934
Herbert Yelland MCP/Nationalist East 1930 1924–1936

Notes

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1 On 22 June 1925, South-East Country MLC James Greig died. Country candidate William Glasheen won the resulting by-election on 18 July 1925.

Sources

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  • 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 One, 1870–1930 (Revised ed.). Parliament House: Parliament of Western Australia. ISBN 0730738140.