Members of the Western Australian Legislative Council, 1922–1924
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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 1922 to 21 May 1924. 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. During the term, the Country Party
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....

 split into rival Ministerial (MCP) and Executive (ECP) factions–although in the Council, this was diluted somewhat by the refusal of some long-standing Country members to become involved in the dispute. The Executive faction, loyal to the Primary Producers' Association, prevailed and by 1925 the Ministerial faction had merged with the Nationalist Party.
Name Party Province Term
expires
Years in office
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
Frederick Baglin 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...

 
West  1926 1920–1923
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  1926 1914–1950
Harry Boan
Harry Boan
Henry Boan was an Australian businessman and politician, who was best known for establishing the Boans department store in Perth, Western Australia....

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...

 
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 1917–1918; 1922–1924
Alfred Burvill  Country South-East  1928 1922–1928
William Carroll
William Carroll (Australian politician)
William Carroll was an Australian politician. Born in Garvoc, Victoria, he was educated at Horsham before moving to Western Australia during the gold rush to become a miner, and subsequently became a farmer at Tammin...

Country/ECP East  1924 1923–1924
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
Jabez Dodd  National Labor South  1928 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...

 
1926 1914–1926
John Ewing Nationalist South-West  1924 1916–1933
Edmund Gray  Labor West  1926 1923–1952
James Greig  Country South-East  1926 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:...

 
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
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
James Macfarlane  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...

 
1928 1922–1928; 1930–1942
George Miles  Independent North  1924 1916–1950
Joshua Mills  Ind. Nat./MCP Central  1924 1918–1924
Thomas Moore  Labor Central  1926 1920–1926; 1932–1946
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...

 
1926 1918–1941
George Potter  Nationalist West  1928 1922–1928
Edwin Rose  Nationalist South-West  1928 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
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...

 
1928 1915–1929
Harold Seddon  Nationalist North-East  1928 1922–1954
Hector Stewart  Country/ECP South-East  1924 1917–1931
Francis Willmott  Country South-West  1926 1921–1926
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 1928 1883–1884; 1885–1886;
1894–1898; 1902–1906;
1910–1934
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