This is a list of members of the Western Australian Legislative Council from 22 May 1938 to 21 May 1940. 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.
Terms expiring in 1942 and thereafter were extended due to World War II by the Legislative Council (Postponement of Election) Act 1941 (No. 50 of 1941), which was given assent on 16 January 1942.
| Name | Party | Province | Term expires |
Years in office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Edward Angelo | Nationalist | North | 1940 | 1934–1940 |
| Charles Baxter | Country | East | 1944* | 1914–1950 |
| Leonard Bolton | Nationalist | Metropolitan | 1942* | 1932–1948 |
| James Cornell | Nationalist | South | 1942* | 1912–1946 |
| Les Craig | Nationalist | South-West | 1942* | 1934–1956 |
| James Dimmitt | Nationalist | Metropolitan-Suburban | 1944* | 1938–1953 |
| John Drew | Labor | Central | 1942* | 1900–1918; 1924–1947 |
| James Franklin | Nationalist | Metropolitan | 1940 | 1928–1940 |
| Gilbert Fraser | Labor | West | 1940 | 1928–1958 |
| Edmund Gray | Labor | West | 1944* | 1923–1952 |
| Edmund Hall | Country | Central | 1940 | 1928–1947 |
| William Hall | Labor | North-East | 1944* | 1938–1963 |
| Vernon Hamersley | Country | East | 1940 | 1904–1946 |
| Eric Heenan | Labor | North-East | 1942* | 1936–1968 |
| Joseph Holmes | Independent | North | 1944* | 1914–1942 |
| Sir John Kirwan | Independent | South | 1944* | 1908–1946 |
| William Kitson[1] | Labor | West | 1942* | 1924–1947 |
| James Macfarlane | Nationalist | Metropolitan-Suburban | 1942* | 1922–1928; 1930–1942 |
| William Mann | Nationalist | South-West | 1944* | 1926–1951 |
| George Miles | Ind. Nat. | North | 1942* | 1916–1950 |
| Thomas Moore | Labor | Central | 1944* | 1920–1926; 1932–1946 |
| John Nicholson | Nationalist | Metropolitan | 1944* | 1918–1941 |
| Hubert Parker | Nationalist | Metropolitan-Suburban | 1940 | 1934–1954 |
| Harold Piesse | Country | South-East | 1944* | 1932–1946 |
| Harold Seddon | Nationalist | North-East | 1940 | 1922–1954 |
| Alec Thomson | Country | South-East | 1942* | 1931–1950 |
| Hobart Tuckey | Nationalist | South-West | 1940 | 1934–1951 |
| Charles Williams | Labor | South | 1940 | 1928–1948 |
| Charles Wittenoom | Country | South-East | 1940 | 1928–1940 |
| Garnet Barrington Wood | Country | East | 1942* | 1936–1952 |
Sources
edit- Black, David (1991). Legislative Council of Western Australia : membership register, electoral law and statistics, 1890-1989. Perth: Parliamentary History Project. ISBN 0-7309-3641-4.
- Hughes, Colin A.; Aitkin, Don (1986). Voting for the Australian State Upper Houses, 1890-1984. Canberra: Australian National University. ISBN 0-909779-18-X.
- Black, David; Bolton, Geoffrey (2001). Biographical Register of Members of the Parliament of Western Australia, Volume Two, 1930-1990 (Revised ed.). Parliament House: Parliament of Western Australia. ISBN 0731697839.