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 1965 to 21 May 1968.

The term was the first to be conducted under the Constitution Acts Amendment Act (No.2) 1963 (No.72 of 1963), which abolished the 10 three-member provinces which had existed almost unaltered since 1900 and replaced them with 15 new two-member provinces, while abolishing the practice of having separate Legislative Council elections in May of every even-numbered year. Hence, members whose terms expired on 21 May 1971 were elected at the 1965 state general election

Western Australian state election, 1965

Elections were held in the state of Western Australia on 20 February 1965 to elect all 50 members to the Legislative Assembly and 15 members to the 30-seat Legislative Council...

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The chamber as a result had 30 seats made up of 15 provinces each electing two members, on a system of rotation whereby one-half of the members would retire every three years.

Name	Party	Province	Term expires	Years in office
Charles Abbey	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...	West	1971	1958–1977
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	1971	1950–1958; 1960–1983
George Brand	Liberal	Lower North	1971	1965–1971
Leslie Diver	Country	Central	1968	1952–1974
Jerry Dolan Jerry Dolan John "Jerry" Dolan was an Australian rules footballer and coach in the West Australian Football League before becoming a politician. He played for as well as coached East Fremantle and was also a coach at East Perth...	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...	South-East Metropolitan South-East Metropolitan Province The South-East Metropolitan Province was a two-member electoral province of the Western Australian Legislative Council, located in metropolitan Perth. It was one of several metropolitan seats created following the enactment of the Constitution Acts Amendment Act 1963, and became effective on 22...	1968	1963–1974
Vic Ferry	Liberal	South-West	1971	1965–1987
Jim Garrigan	Labor	South-East	1971	1954–1971
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	North Metropolitan North Metropolitan Province The North Metropolitan Province was a two-member electoral province of the Western Australian Legislative Council, located in metropolitan Perth. It was one of several metropolitan seats created following the enactment of the Constitution Acts Amendment Act 1963, and became effective on 22 May 1965...	1971	1953–1977
Clive Griffiths	Liberal	South-East Metropolitan South-East Metropolitan Province The South-East Metropolitan Province was a two-member electoral province of the Western Australian Legislative Council, located in metropolitan Perth. It was one of several metropolitan seats created following the enactment of the Constitution Acts Amendment Act 1963, and became effective on 22...	1971	1965–1997
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	Lower North	1968	1936–1968
Jack Heitman	Country	Upper West Upper West Province The Upper West Province was a two-member electoral province of the Western Australian Legislative Council, located in the Mid West region of the state...	1971	1963–1977
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...	1971	1941–1971
Edward House	Country	South	1971	1965–1971
Ruby Hutchinson	Labor	North-East Metropolitan North-East Metropolitan Province The North-East Metropolitan Province was a two-member electoral province of the Western Australian Legislative Council, located in metropolitan Perth. It was one of several metropolitan seats created following the enactment of the Constitution Acts Amendment Act 1963, and became effective on 22...	1971	1954–1971
Arthur Jones	Country	West	1968	1950–1967
Frederick Lavery	Labor	South Metropolitan South Metropolitan Province The South Metropolitan Province was a two-member electoral province of the Western Australian Legislative Council, located in metropolitan Perth. It was one of several metropolitan seats created following the enactment of the Constitution Acts Amendment Act 1963, and became effective on 22 May 1965...	1971	1952–1971
Les Logan	Country	Upper West Upper West Province The Upper West Province was a two-member electoral province of the Western Australian Legislative Council, located in the Mid West region of the state...	1968	1947–1974
Graham MacKinnon	Liberal	Lower West Lower West Province The Lower West Province was a two-member electoral province of the Western Australian Legislative Council, located in the Peel and South West region of the state. It was one of several rural seats created following the enactment of the Constitution Acts Amendment Act 1963, and became effective on...	1968	1956–1986
Neil McNeill Neil McNeill Neil McNeill was an Australian politician. Born in Yarloop, Western Australia, he was educated at Scotch College, Perth, and the University of Western Australia, after which he became a farmer. He served in the military in 1945, and returned to become a district officer with the Western Australian...	Liberal	Lower West Lower West Province The Lower West Province was a two-member electoral province of the Western Australian Legislative Council, located in the Peel and South West region of the state. It was one of several rural seats created following the enactment of the Constitution Acts Amendment Act 1963, and became effective on...	1971	1965–1983
Thomas Perry	Country	Lower Central	1971	1965–1977
Herbert R. Robinson	Liberal	North Metropolitan North Metropolitan Province The North Metropolitan Province was a two-member electoral province of the Western Australian Legislative Council, located in metropolitan Perth. It was one of several metropolitan seats created following the enactment of the Constitution Acts Amendment Act 1963, and became effective on 22 May 1965...	1968	1962–1968
Harry Strickland	Labor	North	1968	1950–1970
Claude Stubbs	Labor	South-East	1968	1962–1980
Ronald Thompson	Labor	South Metropolitan South Metropolitan Province The South Metropolitan Province was a two-member electoral province of the Western Australian Legislative Council, located in metropolitan Perth. It was one of several metropolitan seats created following the enactment of the Constitution Acts Amendment Act 1963, and became effective on 22 May 1965...	1968	1959–1980
Sydney Thompson	Country	Lower Central	1968	1960–1974
Jack Thomson	Country	South	1968	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...	1968	1948–1968
Frederick White	Country	West	1968	1967–1973
William Willesee	Labor	North-East Metropolitan North-East Metropolitan Province The North-East Metropolitan Province was a two-member electoral province of the Western Australian Legislative Council, located in metropolitan Perth. It was one of several metropolitan seats created following the enactment of the Constitution Acts Amendment Act 1963, and became effective on 22...	1968	1954–1974
Francis Drake Willmott	Liberal	South-West	1968	1955–1974
Frank Wise Frank Wise Frank Joseph Scott Wise AO was an Australian Labor Party politician and the 16th Premier of Western Australia. He took office on 31 July 1945 in the closing stages of the Second World War, following the resignation of his predecessor due to ill health...	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	1971	1956–1971

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(especially p. 6)