Members of the Western Australian Legislative Council, 1934–1936

This is a list of members of the Western Australian Legislative Council from 22 May 1934 to 21 May 1936. 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
Edward Angelo Nationalist North 1940 1934–1940
Charles Baxter Country East 1938 1914–1950
Leonard Bolton Nationalist Metropolitan 1936 1932–1948
Alec Clydesdale Labor Metropolitan-Suburban 1938 1932–1938
James Cornell Nationalist South 1936 1912–1946
Les Craig Nationalist South-West 1936 1934–1956
John Drew Labor Central 1936 1900–1918; 1924–1947
Charles Elliott Nationalist North-East 1938 1934–1938
James Franklin[1] Nationalist Metropolitan 1940 1928–1940
Gilbert Fraser Labor West 1940 1928–1958
Edmund Gray Labor West 1938 1923–1952
Edmund Hall Country Central 1940 1928–1947
Vernon Hamersley Country East 1940 1904–1946
Joseph Holmes Independent North 1938 1914–1942
Sir John Kirwan Independent South 1938 1908–1946
William Kitson Labor West 1936 1924–1947
James Macfarlane Nationalist Metropolitan-Suburban 1936 1922–1928; 1930–1942
William Mann Nationalist South-West 1938 1926–1951
George Miles Ind. Nat. North 1936 1916–1950
Richard Moore Nationalist North-East 1936 1932–1936
Thomas Moore Labor Central 1938 1920–1926; 1932–1946
John Nicholson Nationalist Metropolitan 1938 1918–1941
Hubert Parker Nationalist Metropolitan-Suburban 1940 1934–1954
Harold Piesse Ind. Country South-East 1938 1932–1946
Harold Seddon Nationalist North-East 1940 1922–1954
Alec Thomson Country South-East 1936 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
Herbert Yelland Country East 1936 1924–1936

Notes

1 At the 12 May 1934 elections, James George, a fellow Nationalist candidate, won the Metropolitan Province seat from incumbent member James Franklin on Labor preferences (both candidates got 1,991 primary votes). Upon a petition to the Court of Disputed Returns, Franklin was declared elected on 21 November 1934 without a by-election.

Sources

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  • 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.