Members of the Western Australian Legislative Council, 1918–1920

This is a list of members of the Western Australian Legislative Council
Western Australian Legislative Council
The Legislative Council, or upper house, is one of the two chambers of parliament in the Australian state of Western Australia. Its central purpose is to act as a house of review for legislation passed through the lower house, the Legislative Assembly. It sits in Parliament House in the state...

from 22 May 1918 to 21 May 1920. 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
Joseph Allen Joseph Allen (Australian politician) Joseph Francis Allen was an Australian politician.Born at Perranzabuloe in Cornwall to carpenter William Allen and Salome Williams, he came to Parramatta in 1879 and from 1884 worked as an articled clerk to a Sydney architect, subsequently becoming a civil engineer...	Nationalist Nationalist Party of Australia The Nationalist Party of Australia was an Australian political party. It was formed on 17 February 1917 from a merger between the conservative Commonwealth Liberal Party and the National Labor Party, the name given to the pro-conscription defectors from the Australian Labor Party led by Prime...	West	1920	1914–1920
Richard Ardagh	National Labor National Labor Party The National Labor Party was the name used by the Australian Prime Minister Billy Hughes for himself and his followers after he was expelled from the Australian Labor Party in November 1916 over his pro-conscription stance in relation to World War I...	North-East	1924	1912–1924
Charles Baxter	Country National Party of Western Australia The National Party of Western Australia is a political party in Western Australia. It is affiliated with the National Party of Australia but maintains a separate structure and identity....	East	1920	1914–1950
Sir Henry Briggs	Nationalist	West	1922	1896–1919
Henry Carson	Country	Central	1920	1914–1920
Ephraim Clarke	Nationalist	South-West	1920	1901–1921
Hal Colebatch Hal Colebatch Sir Harry Pateshall Colebatch CMG , better known as Sir Hal Colebatch, was a long-serving and occasionally controversial figure in Western Australian politics...	Nationalist	East	1924	1912–1923
James Cornell	National Labor	South	1924	1912–1946
James Cunningham James Cunningham (Australian politician) James Cunningham was an Australian politician. Born in Western Australia, he received a primary education before becoming a goldminer at Norseman and then Boulder. He was secretary of the Federated Miners' Union before his election to the Western Australian Legislative Council in 1916 as a Labor...	Labor	North-East	1922	1916–1922
Jabez Dodd	National Labor	South	1922	1910–1928
Joseph Duffell	Nationalist	Metropolitan-Suburban Metropolitan-Suburban Province The Metropolitan-Suburban Province was a three-member electoral province of the Western Australian Legislative Council, located in the metropolitan region of Perth. It was created by the Constitution Acts Amendment Act 1899, and became effective on 29 August 1900 following a special election to...	1920	1914–1926
John Ewing	Nationalist	South-West	1924	1916–1933
James Greig	Country	South-East	1920	1916–1925
Vernon Hamersley Vernon Hamersley Vernon Hamersley served the longest term ever as a Member of the Western Australian Legislative Council.-Life and career:...	Nationalist	East	1922	1904–1946
James Hickey	Labor	Central	1922	1916–1928
Joseph Holmes	Independent	North	1920	1914–1942
Walter Kingsmill Walter Kingsmill Sir Walter Kingsmill was an Australian politician.Born in Glenelg, South Australia, he was educated at St Peter's College in Adelaide and at the University of Adelaide before becoming a geologist. Moving to Western Australia in 1888, he became a mine manager...	Nationalist	Metropolitan Metropolitan Province The Metropolitan Province was a multi-member electoral province of the Western Australian Legislative Council, located in the metropolitan region of Perth. It was created by the Constitution Acts Amendment Act 1893, and became effective on 22 May 1894 following the first council elections following...	1922	1903–1922
John Kirwan	Independent	South	1920	1908–1946
Arthur Lovekin Arthur Lovekin Arthur Lovekin was a West Australian journalist, newspaper editor and owner and politician.-Early life:Lovekin was born , in Slough, Buckinghamshire...	Nationalist	Metropolitan Metropolitan Province The Metropolitan Province was a multi-member electoral province of the Western Australian Legislative Council, located in the metropolitan region of Perth. It was created by the Constitution Acts Amendment Act 1893, and became effective on 22 May 1894 following the first council elections following...	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
Harry Millington	Labor	North-East	1920	1914–1920
John Nicholson	Nationalist	Metropolitan Metropolitan Province The Metropolitan Province was a multi-member electoral province of the Western Australian Legislative Council, located in the metropolitan region of Perth. It was created by the Constitution Acts Amendment Act 1893, and became effective on 22 May 1894 following the first council elections following...	1920	1918–1941
Alexander Panton Alexander Panton Alexander Hugh Panton was an Australian politician. He was a Labor member of the Western Australian Legislative Council from 1919 to 1922, before entering the Western Australian Legislative Assembly in 1924, representing Menzies. He transferred to Leederville in 1930 and served until 1951. From...	Labor	West	1922	1919–1922
Edwin Rose	Nationalist	South-West	1922	1916–1934
Archibald Sanderson Archibald Sanderson Archibald Sanderson was an Australian politician.Born at Glenthompson in Victoria to pastoralist John Sanderson and Agnes Roberts, he attended Haileybury College and Christ Church, Oxford after the family's move to England before travelling to New Zealand to work as a parliamentary reporter for...	Nationalist	Metropolitan-Suburban Metropolitan-Suburban Province The Metropolitan-Suburban Province was a three-member electoral province of the Western Australian Legislative Council, located in the metropolitan region of Perth. It was created by the Constitution Acts Amendment Act 1899, and became effective on 29 August 1900 following a special election to...	1924	1912–1922
Henry Saunders Henry Saunders Henry John Saunders was an English-born Australian politician. Born in London, he was educated in Bristol at Clifton College before becoming a civil engineer. In 1884 he migrated to Australia. He was involved in local politics and sat on Perth City Council, serving as mayor in 1895; he was also a...	Independent	Metropolitan Metropolitan Province The Metropolitan Province was a multi-member electoral province of the Western Australian Legislative Council, located in the metropolitan region of Perth. It was created by the Constitution Acts Amendment Act 1893, and became effective on 22 May 1894 following the first council elections following...	1924	1894–1902; 1918–1919
Athelstan Saw	Nationalist	Metropolitan-Suburban Metropolitan-Suburban Province The Metropolitan-Suburban Province was a three-member electoral province of the Western Australian Legislative Council, located in the metropolitan region of Perth. It was created by the Constitution Acts Amendment Act 1899, and became effective on 29 August 1900 following a special election to...	1922	1915–1929
Hector Stewart	Country	South-East	1924	1917–1931
Sir Edward Wittenoom Edward Wittenoom Sir Edward Charles Wittenoom KCMG was an Australian politician, member of the Western Australian Legislative Council for thirty four years.- Early life :...	Nationalist	North	1922	1883–1884; 1885–1886; 1894–1898; 1902–1906; 1910–1934

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