Members of the Western Australian Legislative Council, 1954–1956
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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 1954 to 21 May 1956. 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
Charles Barker  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  1958 1952–1956
Norm 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....

 
Central  1958 1950–1958; 1960–1983
George Bennetts  Labor South-East  1958 1946–1965
Robert Boylen Labor South-East  1956 1947–1955
Les Craig  Liberal
Liberal Party of Australia
The Liberal Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Founded a year after the 1943 federal election to replace the United Australia Party, the centre-right Liberal Party typically competes with the centre-left Australian Labor Party for political office...

 
South-West  1956 1934–1956
John Cunningham Liberal South-East  1956 1948–1954; 1955–1962
Evan Davies  Labor West  1956 1947–1963
Leslie Diver  Country Central  1956 1952–1974
Gilbert Fraser  Labor West  1960 1928–1958
Jim Garrigan  Labor South-East  1960 1954–1971
Sir Frank Gibson
Frank Gibson (politician)
Sir Frank Ernest Gibson was an Australian politician.Born at Egerton, Victoria, to Irish-born policeman Alexander Gibson and Louisa Herring, he attended Grenville College and the School of Mines at Ballarat before moving to Western Australia as a qualified pharmacist, setting up a business in...

 
Liberal 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...

 
1956 1942–1956
Arthur Griffith
Arthur Griffith (Australian politician)
Sir Arthur Frederick Griffith was an Australian politician, and a member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly from 1950 until 1953 representing the seat of Canning, and a member of the Western Australian Legislative Council representing the Suburban and North Metropolitan provinces from...

 
Liberal 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...

 
1958 1953–1977
William Hall  Labor North-East  1958 1938–1963
Harry Hearn Liberal 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...

 
1960 1948–1956
Eric Heenan
Eric Heenan (politician)
Born: 29 April 1900, Kanowna, Western Australia to Michael Joseph Heenan and Josephine Frances .Educated CBC Wakefield Street Adelaide, South Australia,Articled to Neville Heenan in NorthamPracticed Law in the Western Australian goldfields and Perth...

 
Labor North-East  1956 1936–1968
Charles Henning Liberal South-West  1960 1951–1955
James Hislop  Liberal 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...

 
1958 1941–1971
Ruby Hutchinson  Labor 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...

 
1960 1954–1971
Arthur Jones  Country Midland  1956 1950–1967
Sir Charles Latham
Charles Latham
Sir Charles Latham was an Australian politician born in Hythe, Kent in England.- Biography :Latham became an orphan in early childhood when his parents Thomas Latham and Isabella died before the age of 8...

 
Country Central  1960 1946–1960
Frederick Lavery  Labor West  1958 1952–1971
Les Logan  Country Midland  1960 1947–1974
Anthony Loton  Country South  1958 1944–1965
James Murray  Liberal South-West  1958 1951–1965
Hugh Roche  Country South  1960 1940–1960
Charles Simpson  Liberal Midland  1958 1946–1963
Harry Strickland  Labor North  1956 1950–1970
John Teahan  Labor North-East  1960 1954–1965
Jack Thomson  Country South  1956 1950–1974
Keith Watson  Liberal 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...

 
1956 1948–1968
William Willesee  Labor North  1960 1954–1974
Francis Drake Willmott Liberal South-West 1960 1955–1974
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