Members of the South Australian House of Assembly, 1927–1930

This is a list of members of the South Australian House of Assembly from 1927 to 1930, as elected at the 1927 state election

South Australian state election, 1927

State elections were held in Australia on 26 March 1927. All 46 seats in the South Australian House of Assembly were up for election. The incumbent Australian Labor Party government led by Premier of South Australia Lionel Hill was defeated by the opposition Liberal Federation led by Leader of the...

Name	Party	Electorate South Australian House of Assembly electoral districts Since 1970, the South Australian House of Assembly has consisted of 47 single-member electoral districts consisting of approximately the same number of enrolled voters...	Term of office
Ernest Anthoney	Liberal Liberal Federation The Liberal Federation was a liberal conservative South Australian political party from 1922 to 1932. It stemmed from the Liberal Union's Henry Barwell. Richard Layton Butler was also premier during the party's time. It was a predecessor to the Liberal and Country League....	Sturt	1921–1938
Dr Herbert Basedow Herbert Basedow Herbert Basedow was an Australian anthropologist, geologist, politician, explorer and medical practitioner. During his working life, Basedow took part in many major geological, exploratory and medical relief expeditions to central and northern Australia.He was one of the few people of his time...	Independent	Barossa	1927–1930, 1933
Frederick Birrell	Labor Australian Labor Party The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...	North Adelaide	1921–1933
Alfred Blackwell	Labor	West Torrens Electoral district of West Torrens West Torrens is an electoral district of the House of Assembly in the Australian state of South Australia. Named after the City of West Torrens because of its location on the River Torrens, it is a 26.7 km² urban electorate on Adelaide's western suburbs...	1918–1938
Richard Layton Butler Richard Layton Butler Sir Richard Layton Butler KCMG was the 31st Premier of South Australia, serving two disjunct terms in office: from 1927 to 1930, and again from 1933 to 1938....	Liberal	Wooroora	1915–1918, 1921–1938
Thomas Butterfield Thomas Butterfield Thomas Butterfield was an Australian politician and member of the South Australian Parliament.In 1910/11 Thomas was a councillor for the Tumby Bay ward in the Tumby Bay Council and was made a Justice of the Peace...	Labor	Newcastle	1915–1917, 1918–1933
Archie Cameron Archie Cameron Archie Galbraith Cameron , was an Australian politician. He was Leader of the Country Party 1939-40, and Speaker of the House of Representatives 1950-56.-Biography:...	Country National Party of Australia The National Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Traditionally representing graziers, farmers and rural voters generally, it began as the The Country Party, but adopted the name The National Country Party in 1975, changed to The National Party of Australia in 1982. The party is...	Wooroora	1927–1934
Reginald Carter	Country	Burra Burra	1927-1930
Edward Coles	Country	Flinders Electoral district of Flinders Flinders is an electoral district of the House of Assembly in the Australian state of South Australia. It is named after explorer Matthew Flinders, who was responsible for charting most of the state's coastline. It is a 55,260.6 km² coastal rural electorate encompassing the Eyre Peninsula and...	1927-1930
Clement Collins	Labor	Murray	1924–1933
Hon Frederick Coneybeer	Liberal	East Torrens	1893-1921, 1924-1930
George Cooke	Labor	Barossa	1924–1933
Henry Crosby	Liberal	Barossa	1917–1930, 1933–1938
William Denny	Labor	Adelaide Electoral district of Adelaide Adelaide is an electorate for the South Australian House of Assembly which includes Adelaide's central business district and suburbs in the inner north and inner north east...	1900–1905, 1906–1933
Bert Edwards Bert Edwards (politician) Albert Augustine "Bert" Edwards was an Australian politician. Before entering politics he held various jobs as a stall keeper, marine store dealer and hotel keeper; he was also prominent on Adelaide City Council...	Labor	Adelaide	1917–1931
John Fitzgerald	Labor	Port Pirie	1918–1936
Herbert George	Labor	Adelaide	1926–1933
Edward Giles Edward Giles Sir Edward Giles was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1597 and 1629.Giles was the son John Giles of Bowden, Devon and was baptised at Totnes on 21 July, 1566. He matriculated at Exeter College, Oxford on 1 February 1583, aged 17. He was a student of...	Liberal	Yorke Peninsula	1926–1933
Walter Hamilton Walter Hamilton (politician) Walter Alfred Hamilton was an Australian politician. He was a public accountant, auditor and general manager before entering politics. He was a Liberal and Country League member of the South Australian House of Assembly, representing East Torrens from 1917 to 1924, 1925 to 1930 and 1933 to 1938....	Liberal	East Torrens	1917–1924, 1925–1930, 1933–1938
Ernest Hannaford	Liberal	Murray	1927-1930
William Harvey	Labor	Newcastle	1918–1933
Percival Heggaton	Liberal	Alexandra Electoral district of Alexandra Alexandra was an electoral district of the House of Assembly in the Australian state of South Australia from 1902 to 1992. The district included the Fleurieu Peninsula, to the south of Adelaide.Alexandra was renamed Finniss at the 1993 state election....	1906–1915, 1923–1938
Lionel Hill Lionel Hill Lionel Laughton Hill was the thirtieth Premier of South Australia.Born in Adelaide, South Australia but raised on a farm near Maitland, Hill left school aged 12 to work on the South Australian government railways, where he first became involved in the labour movement...	Labor	Port Pirie	1915–1917, 1918–1933
Hon Hermann Homburg Hermann Homburg Hermann Robert Homburg was a South Australian politician and lawyer.Homburg was born in Norwood and educated at Prince Alfred College and the University of Adelaide. Following his admission to the bar in 1897, he practiced law at his father's legal firm, Hamburg & Melrose...	Liberal	Murray	1906-1915, 1927-1930
Herbert Hudd	Liberal	Alexandra	1912–1915, 1920–1938, 1941–1948
Shirley Jeffries	Liberal	North Adelaide	1927–1930, 1933–1944, 1947–1953
George Jenkins George Jenkins (Australian politician) Sir George Frederick Jenkins KBE was an Australian politician. He was a Liberal and Country League member of the South Australian House of Assembly, representing Burra Burra from 1918 to 1924, 1927 to 1930 and 1933 to 1938, and Newcastle from 1938 to 1956...	Liberal	Burra Burra	1918–1924, 1927–1930, 1933–1956
Francis Jettner	Liberal	Burra Burra	1927-1930
John Jonas	Labor	Port Adelaide Electoral district of Port Adelaide Port Adelaide is an electoral district of the House of Assembly in the Australian state of South Australia. Named after Port Adelaide because of its geographical location, it is a 113.4 km² urban electorate on Adelaide's Lefevre Peninsula and stretches east to cove some of Adelaide's northern...	1927–1933
Hon George Laffer George Laffer George Richards Laffer was an Australian politician. He was member of the South Australian House of Assembly from 1913 until 1933, representing the electorate of Alexandra for the Liberal Union, and its successors the Liberal Federation and Liberal and Country League...	Liberal	Alexandra	1913–1933
John Lyons	Liberal	Stanley	1926–1948
John McInnes	Labor	West Torrens	1918–1950
Malcolm McIntosh	Country	Albert	1921–1959
James McLachlan James McLachlan (Australian politician) James McLachlan was an Australian politician. Born in Alma, South Australia, he was educated at Winham College before becoming a farmer at Dalkey. After working as a storekeeper and agent, he was elected to the South Australian House of Assembly as the Nationalist member for Wooroora in 1918,...	Liberal	Wooroora	1918-1930
Frederick McMillan	Country	Albert	1921–1933
James Moseley	Liberal	Flinders Electoral district of Flinders Flinders is an electoral district of the House of Assembly in the Australian state of South Australia. It is named after explorer Matthew Flinders, who was responsible for charting most of the state's coastline. It is a 55,260.6 km² coastal rural electorate encompassing the Eyre Peninsula and...	1910–1933
Robert Nicholls	Liberal	Stanley	1915–1956
John Pedler	Labor	Wallaroo	1918–1938
Peter Reidy	Liberal	Victoria	1915–1932
Herbert Richards	Liberal	Sturt	1921-1930
Robert Richards	Labor	Wallaroo	1918–1949
Eric Shepherd Eric Shepherd Eric John Shepherd was an Australian politician. He was the Labor member for Victoria in the South Australian House of Assembly from 1924 to 1933. From 1930 to 1933 he was Speaker of the House....	Labor	Victoria	1924–1933
Albert Sutton	Liberal	East Torrens	1927-1930
Thomas Thompson	Independent Labor	Port Adelaide	1927, 1927-1930
Henry Tossell	Liberal	Yorke Peninsula	1915-1930
Edward Vardon Edward Vardon Edward Charles Vardon was an Australian politician. Born in Adelaide, South Australia, he was the son of Joseph Vardon, later an Australian Senator. He was educated at North Adelaide Grammar School before becoming chairman of the family printing company...	Liberal	Sturt	1918-1921, 1924-1930

Port Adelaide Independent Labor MHA Thomas Thompson was unseated by the Court of Disputed Returns on May 30, 1927, after a challenge from defeated Labor MHA Frank Condon over a defamatory pamphlet. Thompson contested and won the resulting by-election on July 2.

Wooroora Liberal MHA James McLachlan

James McLachlan (Australian politician)

James McLachlan was an Australian politician. Born in Alma, South Australia, he was educated at Winham College before becoming a farmer at Dalkey. After working as a storekeeper and agent, he was elected to the South Australian House of Assembly as the Nationalist member for Wooroora in 1918,...

resigned on January 31, 1930. No by-election was held due to the proximity of the 1930 state election

South Australian state election, 1930

State elections were held in Australia on 5 April 1930. All 46 seats in the South Australian House of Assembly were up for election. The incumbent Liberal Federation government led by Premier of South Australia Richard L. Butler was defeated by the opposition Australian Labor Party led by Leader of...

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