Members of the Western Australian Legislative Council, 1926–1928

This is a list of members of the Western Australian Legislative Council from 22 May 1926 to 21 May 1928. 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 Baxter Country East 1932 1914–1950
John Reid Brown Labor North-East 1930 1924–1930
Alfred Burvill Country South-East 1928 1922–1928
James Cornell Nationalist South 1930 1912–1946
Jabez Dodd[1] Nationalist South 1928 1910–1928
John Drew Labor Central 1930 1900–1918; 1924–1947
John Ewing Nationalist South-West 1930 1916–1933
William Glasheen Country South-East 1932 1925–1932
Edmund Gray Labor West 1932 1923–1952
Vernon Hamersley Country East 1928 1904–1946
Edgar Harris Nationalist North-East 1932 1920–1934
James Hickey Labor Central 1928 1916–1928
Joseph Holmes Independent North 1932 1914–1942
George Kempton Country Central 1932 1926–1932
John Kirwan Independent South 1932 1908–1946
William Kitson Labor West 1930 1924–1947
Sir William Lathlain Nationalist Metropolitan-Suburban 1932 1926–1932
Arthur Lovekin Nationalist Metropolitan 1930 1919–1931
James Macfarlane Nationalist Metropolitan 1928 1922–1928; 1930–1942
William Mann Nationalist South-West 1932 1926–1951
George Miles Independent North 1930 1916–1950
John Nicholson Nationalist Metropolitan 1932 1918–1941
George Potter Nationalist West 1928 1922–1928
George Rainsford[1] Nationalist South 1928 1928
Edwin Rose Nationalist South-West 1928 1916–1934
Athelstan Saw Nationalist Metropolitan-Suburban 1928 1915–1929
Harold Seddon Nationalist North-East 1928 1922–1954
Henry Stephenson Nationalist Metropolitan-Suburban 1930 1924–1930
Hector Stewart Country South-East 1930 1917–1931
Sir Edward Wittenoom Nationalist North 1928 1883–1884; 1885–1886;
1894–1898; 1902–1906;
1910–1934
Herbert Yelland Nationalist East 1930 1924–1936

Notes

1 On 2 January 1928, South Province Nationalist MLC Jabez Dodd died. Nationalist candidate George Rainsford won the resulting by-election on 11 February 1928—however, he was not sworn in and did not take his seat, and was defeated at the Council elections three months later.

Sources

  • 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 One, 1870–1930 (Revised ed.). Parliament House: Parliament of Western Australia. ISBN 0730738140.