Members of the Western Australian Legislative Council, 1930–1932
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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 1930 to 21 May 1932. 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
Frederick Allsop  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...

 
North-East  1936 1930–1932
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  1932 1914–1950
Leonard Bolton 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...

 
1936 1932–1948
James Cornell  Nationalist South  1936 1912–1946
John Drew  Labor Central  1936 1900–1918; 1924–1947
John Ewing  Nationalist South-West  1936 1916–1933
James Franklin  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...

 
1934 1928–1940
Gilbert Fraser  Labor West  1934 1928–1958
William Glasheen  Country South-East  1932 1925–1932
Edmund Gray  Labor West  1932 1923–1952
Edmund Hall
Edmund Hall
Edmund Henry Hartley Hall was an Australian politician who represented the Western Australian Legislative Council district of Central Province from 1928 until 1947, and the Legislative Assembly seat of Geraldton from 1947 until 1950...

 
Country Central  1934 1928–1947
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  1934 1904–1946
Edgar Harris  Nationalist North-East  1932 1920–1934
Joseph Holmes  Independent North  1932 1914–1942
George Kempton  Country Central  1932 1926–1932
Sir John Kirwan  Independent South  1932 1908–1946
William Kitson  Labor West  1936 1924–1947
Sir William Lathlain  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...

 
1932 1926–1932
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...

 
1936 1919–1931
James Macfarlane  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...

 
1936 1922–1928; 1930–1942
William Mann  Nationalist South-West  1932 1926–1951
George Miles  Nationalist North  1936 1916–1950
Sir Charles Nathan  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...

 
1934 1930–1934
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...

 
1932 1918–1941
Edwin Rose  Nationalist South-West  1934 1916–1934
Harold Seddon  Nationalist North-East  1934 1922–1954
Hector Stewart Country South-East  1936 1917–1931
Alec Thomson
Alec Thomson
Alexander Thomson , known as Alec Thomson, was an Australian politician, and a member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly from 1914 until 1930 representing the seat of Katanning, and a member of the Western Australian Legislative Council representing the South Province from 1931 until...

Country South-East  1936 1931–1950
Charles Williams
Charles Williams (Australian politician)
Charles Bennett Williams was an Australian politician. He was a Labor member of the Western Australian Legislative Council from 1928 to 1948....

 
Labor South  1934 1928–1948
Charles Wittenoom
Charles Wittenoom
Charles Horne Wittenoon , Australian politician, was a Member of the Western Australian Legislative Council for twelve years....

 
Country South-East  1934 1928–1940
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  1934 1883–1884; 1885–1886;
1894–1898; 1902–1906;
1910–1934
Herbert Yelland
Herbert Yelland
Herbert John Yelland was a Member of the Western Australian Legislative Council from 1924 to 1936.Herbert Yelland was born in Point Macleay, Wellington, South Australia on 27 February 1878. The son of a farmer, he was educated at Roseworthy Agricultural College, and in 1899 started working for the...

 
Nationalist East 1936 1924–1936
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