Members of the Western Australian Legislative Council, 1920–1922
Appearance
This is a list of members of the Western Australian Legislative Council from 22 May 1920 to 21 May 1922. 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 |
---|---|---|---|---|
Richard Ardagh | National Labor | North-East | 1924 | 1912–1924 |
Frederick Baglin | Labor | West | 1926 | 1920–1923 |
Charles Baxter | Country | East | 1926 | 1914–1950 |
Ephraim Clarke[1] | Nationalist | South-West | 1926 | 1901–1921 |
Hal Colebatch | Nationalist | East | 1924 | 1912–1923 |
James Cornell | National Labor | South | 1924 | 1912–1946 |
James Cunningham | Labor | North-East | 1922 | 1916–1922 |
Jabez Dodd | National Labor | South | 1922 | 1910–1928 |
Joseph Duffell | Nationalist | Metropolitan-Suburban | 1926 | 1914–1926 |
John Ewing | Nationalist | South-West | 1924 | 1916–1933 |
James Greig | Country | South-East | 1926 | 1916–1925 |
Vernon Hamersley | Country | East | 1922 | 1904–1946 |
Edgar Harris | Nationalist | North-East | 1926 | 1920–1934 |
James Hickey | Labor | Central | 1922 | 1916–1928 |
Joseph Holmes | Independent | North | 1926 | 1914–1942 |
Walter Kingsmill | Independent | Metropolitan | 1922 | 1903–1922 |
John Kirwan | Independent | South | 1926 | 1908–1946 |
Arthur Lovekin | Nationalist | Metropolitan | 1924 | 1919–1931 |
Robert Lynn | Nationalist | West | 1924 | 1912–1924 |
Cuthbert McKenzie | Country | South-East | 1922 | 1910–1922 |
George Miles | Independent | North | 1924 | 1916–1950 |
Joshua Mills | Ind. Nat. | Central | 1924 | 1918–1924 |
Thomas Moore | Labor | Central | 1926 | 1920–1926; 1932–1946 |
John Nicholson | Nationalist | Metropolitan | 1926 | 1918–1941 |
Alexander Panton | Labor | West | 1922 | 1919–1922 |
Edwin Rose | Nationalist | South-West | 1922 | 1916–1934 |
Archibald Sanderson | Nationalist | Metropolitan-Suburban | 1924 | 1912–1922 |
Athelstan Saw | Nationalist | Metropolitan-Suburban | 1922 | 1915–1929 |
Hector Stewart | Nationalist | South-East | 1924 | 1917–1931 |
Francis Willmott[1] | Country | South-West | 1926 | 1921–1926 |
Sir Edward Wittenoom | Nationalist | North | 1922 | 1883–1884; 1885–1886; 1894–1898; 1902–1906; 1910–1934 |
Notes
[edit]- 1 On 15 April 1921, South-West Province Nationalist MLC Ephraim Clarke died. Country candidate Francis Willmott won the resulting by-election on 21 May 1921.
Sources
[edit]- 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.