Members of the Victorian Legislative Council, 1934–1937
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This is a list of members of the Victorian Legislative Council
Victorian Legislative Council
The Victorian Legislative Council, is the upper of the two houses of the Parliament of Victoria, Australia; the lower house being the Legislative Assembly. Both houses sit in Parliament House in Spring Street, Melbourne. The Legislative Council serves as a house of review, in a similar fashion to...

between 1934 and 1937. As half of the Legislative Council's terms expired at each triennial election, half of these members were elected at the 1931 triennial election with terms expiring in 1937, while the other half were elected at the 1934 triennial election with terms expiring in 1940.
Name Party Province Term expires Term of office
William Angliss  United Australia
United Australia Party
The United Australia Party was an Australian political party that was founded in 1931 and dissolved in 1945. It was the political successor to the Nationalist Party of Australia and predecessor to the Liberal Party of Australia...

 
Southern  1940 1912–1952
James Miller Balfour Country
National Party of Australia
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Gippsland  1940 1936–1943
William Beckett
William Beckett (Australian politician)
William James Beckett CBE was an Australian politician.Born in Prahran to Irish-born taxi proprietor Samuel Beckett and Scottish-born Margaret Cameron, he attended both state and private schools before becoming a second-hand furniture dealer at Fitzroy with his brother Henry...

 
Labor
Australian Labor Party
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Melbourne East  1940 1914–1931; 1934–1952
George Bolster  United Australia Wellington  1940 1934–1946
Alfred Chandler United Australia South Eastern  1937 1919–1935
Gilbert Chandler
Gilbert Chandler
Sir Gilbert Lawrence Chandler, CMG, KBE was a Liberal Party of Australia politician who served in the Bolte Ministry in Victoria....

United Australia South Eastern 1937 1935–1973
Hon Sir Frank Clarke  United Australia Melbourne South  1937 1913–1955
Russell Clarke  United Australia Southern 1937 1910–1937
Harold Cohen
Harold Cohen (politician)
Brigadier Harold Edward Cohen CMG, DSO was an Australian soldier, lawyer and, like his grandfather Edward Cohen, a Victorian State politician....

United Australia Melbourne South 1940 1929–1935
Henry Cohen  United Australia Melbourne  1937 1921–1937
Archibald Crofts United Australia Melbourne South 1940 1935–1942
George Martley Davis  United Australia Gippsland 1937 1917–1937
James Herbert Disney  Labor Melbourne West
Melbourne West Province
Melbourne West Province was an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Council until 2006. It was abolished from the 2006 state election in the wake of the Bracks Labor government's reform of the Legislative Council.-Members for Melbourne West Province:...

 
1937 1916–1943
Clifden Eager  United Australia East Yarra
East Yarra Province
East Yarra Province was an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Council until 2006. It was abolished from the 2006 state election in the wake of the Bracks Labor government's reform of the Legislative Council.-Members for East Yarra Province:...

 
1940 1930–1958
Hon William Edgar
William Edgar
William Edgar is a British mechanical engineer, who was President of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in 2004.He is graduate from Strathclyde University and Birmingham University with an MSc in Thermodynamics and Fluid Mechanics....

 
United Australia East Yarra 1937 1904–1913; 1917–1948
Hon George Goudie  Country North Western  1937 1919–1949
Hon John Harris  Country North Eastern  1940 1920–1946
Percival Inchbold Country North Eastern 1937 1935–1953
Hon John Percy Jones  United Australia South Western  1940 1910–1940
Herbert Keck  United Australia Bendigo  1937 1921–1937
Esmond Kiernan  Independent Melbourne North
Melbourne North Province
Melbourne North Province was an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Council until 2006. It was abolished from the 2006 state election in the wake of the Bracks Labor government's reform of the Legislative Council.-Members for Melbourne North Province:...

 
1940 1919–1940
Richard Kilpatrick  Country Northern  1940 1928–1946
Lt Col George Lansell  United Australia Bendigo 1940 1928–1952
Gordon McArthur  United Australia South Western 1937 1931–1965
Martin McGregor United Australia Gippsland 1940 1922–1936
Daniel McNamara  Labor Melbourne East 1937 1916; 1917–1947
Herbert Olney  United Australia Melbourne North 1937 1931–1943
Alfred Pittard  United Australia Wellington 1937 1931–1949
Hon Henry Pye  Country North Western 1940 1932–1942
Marcus Saltau  United Australia Western  1940 1924–1940
Herbert Henry Smith United Australia Melbourne 1940 1921–1935
Hon George Tuckett  Country Northern 1937 1925–1955
William Tyner  United Australia South Eastern 1940 1922–1940
George Wales United Australia Melbourne 1940 1936–1938
Hon Robert Henry Williams  Independent Melbourne West 1940 1922–1938
William Williamson  Ind. Country Western 1937 1931–1937
Albert Zwar Country North Eastern 1937 1922–1935

On 12 February 1935, Alfred Chandler, UAP MLC for South Eastern Province, died. His son, UAP candidate Gilbert Chandler
Gilbert Chandler
Sir Gilbert Lawrence Chandler, CMG, KBE was a Liberal Party of Australia politician who served in the Bolte Ministry in Victoria....

, won the resulting by-election in March 1935.
On 23 February 1935, Albert Zwar, Country MLC for North Eastern Province, died. Country candidate Percival Inchbold won the resulting by-election in April 1935.
On 25 November 1935, Herbert Henry Smith, UAP MLC for Melbourne Province, died. UAP candidate George Wales won the resulting by-election in May 1936.
In February 1935, Harold Cohen
Harold Cohen (politician)
Brigadier Harold Edward Cohen CMG, DSO was an Australian soldier, lawyer and, like his grandfather Edward Cohen, a Victorian State politician....

, UAP MLC for Melbourne South Province, resigned to contest Caulfield
Electoral district of Caulfield
-See also:* Parliaments of the Australian states and territories* List of members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly-External links:*...

 in the 1935 Assembly election. UAP candidate Archibald Crofts won the resulting by-election in March 1935.
On 17 August 1936, Martin McGregor, UAP MLC for Gippsland Province, died. Country candidate James Miller Balfour won the resulting by-election in October 1936.

Sources

  • Re-member (a database of all Victorian MPs since 1851). Parliament of Victoria
    Parliament of Victoria
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