Members of the Western Australian Legislative Council, 1974–1977

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 1974 to 21 May 1977. The chamber 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 at each triennial election.

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	1977	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	1977	1950–1958; 1960–1983
George Berry	Liberal	Lower North	1980	1968–1980
Roy Claughton	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 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...	1980	1968–1980
Don Cooley	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...	1980	1974–1980
Des Dans	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...	1977	1971–1989
Stan Dellar	Labor	Lower North	1977	1971–1977
Lyla Elliott	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...	1977	1971–1986
Vic Ferry	Liberal	South-West	1977	1965–1987
Harry Gayfer	Country	Central	1980	1974–1989
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...	1977	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...	1977	1965–1997
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...	1977	1963–1977
Thomas Knight	Liberal	South	1980	1974–1986
Ron Leeson	Labor	South-East	1977	1971–1983
Sandy Lewis Sandy Lewis Alexander Ashley Lewis , better known as Sandy Lewis, was an Australian politician who represented the Western Australian Legislative Assembly seat of Blackwood from 1972 until 1974, and one of the two Legislative Council seats for Lower Central Province from 1974 until 1989...	Liberal	Lower Central	1980	1974–1989
Margaret McAleer Margaret McAleer Margaret McAleer was an Australian politician who served as a member of the Western Australian Legislative Council from 1974 to 1993....	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...	1980	1974–1993
Graham MacKinnon	Liberal	South West	1980	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...	1977	1965–1983
Gordon Masters	Liberal	West	1980	1974–1989
Ian Medcalf	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...	1980	1968–1986
Thomas Perry	Country	Lower Central	1977	1965–1977
Ian Pratt Ian Pratt (politician) Ian George Pratt was an Australian politician, and a member of the Western Australian Legislative Council from 1974 until 1986 representing the seat of Lower West Province for the Liberal Party.-Biography:...	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...	1980	1974–1986
Claude Stubbs	Labor	South-East	1980	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...	1980	1959–1980
John Tozer	Liberal	North	1980	1974–1980
Grace Vaughan	Labor	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...	1980	1974–1980
Richard Williams	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...	1977	1971–1989
Bill Withers	Liberal	North	1977	1971–1982
David Wordsworth	Liberal	South	1977	1971–1993

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