Claremont was an electoral district

Electoral districts of Western Australia

The Western Australian Legislative Assembly is elected from 59 single-member electoral districts. These districts are often referred to as electorates or seats....

 of the Legislative Assembly

Western Australian Legislative Assembly

The Legislative Assembly, or lower house, is one of the two chambers of parliament in the Australian state of Western Australia. It sits in Parliament House in the state capital, Perth....

 in the Australia

Australia

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n state of Western Australia

Western Australia

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 from 1901 to 1968.

Located in the affluent western suburbs of Perth

Perth, Western Australia

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, it was a safe seat for the Liberal Party

Liberal Party of Australia

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 and its predecessor parties. At its abolition it included Claremont

Claremont, Western Australia

Claremont is a western suburb of Perth, Western Australia on the north bank of the Swan River.-History:Prior to European settlement, the Noongar people used the area as a source of water, for fishing and for catching waterfowl. In 1830, John Butler, a settler, set up an inn at Freshwater Bay to...

, Mount Claremont

Mount Claremont, Western Australia

Mount Claremont is a suburb of Perth, Western Australia, Australia, located within the Town of Cambridge and the City of Nedlands. It consists mostly of residential estates which were built in the late 1980s and early 1990s...

, Swanbourne

Swanbourne, Western Australia

-Facilities:Swanbourne includes the 18-hole Cottesloe Golf Club and Swanbourne Beach. Swanbourne is also well-known for having the only nudist beach in Perth. The beach, situated on army land and thus not subject to local council authority, is immediately north of the officially named Swanbourne...

 and the western part of Dalkeith

Dalkeith, Western Australia

Dalkeith is a suburb of Perth, Western Australia, located within the City of Nedlands. The suburb is surrounded on three sides by the Swan River and is home to some of Perth's finest mansions. The suburb takes its name from a cottage built in 1833 by Captain Adam Armstrong and his sons, early...

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It was abolished at the 1968 state election

Western Australian state election, 1968

Elections were held in the state of Western Australia on 23 March 1968 to elect all 51 members to the Legislative Assembly and 15 members to the 30-seat Legislative Council...

, with its area mostly transferring to Nedlands

Electoral district of Nedlands

The Electoral district of Nedlands is a Legislative Assembly electorate in the state of Western Australia. Nedlands is named for the inner western Perth suburb of Nedlands which falls within its borders.-History:...

, and smaller parts to Electoral district of Cottesloe

Electoral district of Cottesloe

The Electoral district of Cottesloe is a Legislative Assembly electorate in the state of Western Australia. Cottesloe is named for the western Perth suburb of Cottesloe which falls within its borders.-History:...

 and the new district of Floreat

Electoral district of Floreat

Floreat was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Western Australia from 1968 to 1996.The district was based in the inner northwestern suburbs of Perth and was created in the 1966 redistribution...

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Claremont's most notable member was Charles North

Charles North (politician)

Charles Frederic NorthBurke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition give his full name as "Charles Frederick John North", but most contemporary sources use "Charles Frederic". was an Australian soldier, lawyer and politician...

, who served as Speaker

Speaker of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly

The Speaker of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly is the presiding officer in the Legislative Assembly. The office has existed since the creation of the Legislative Assembly in 1890 under the Constitution Act 1889...

 from 1947 until 1953 during the McLarty-Watts Ministry

McLarty-Watts Ministry

The McLarty-Watts Ministry was the 21st Ministry of the Government of Western Australia, led by Liberal Premier Sir Ross McLarty and his deputy, Country Party leader Arthur Watts. It succeeded the Wise Ministry on 1 April 1947, following the defeat of the Labor government at the 1947 election two...

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Members for Claremont

Member		Party	Term
	William Sayer	Ministerial	1901–1902
	John Foulkes	Ministerial	1902–1911
	Evan Wisdom Evan Wisdom Brigadier General Evan Alexander Wisdom, CB, CMG, DSO was a senior officer of the Australian Army who served in World War I...	Liberal (WA)	1911–1917
	John Stewart	Nationalist Nationalist Party of Australia The Nationalist Party of Australia was an Australian political party. It was formed on 17 February 1917 from a merger between the conservative Commonwealth Liberal Party and the National Labor Party, the name given to the pro-conscription defectors from the Australian Labor Party led by Prime...	1917–1918
	Thomas Duff	Nationalist	1918–1921
	John Thomson John Thomson (Western Australian politician) John Thomson was an Australian politician. He was the Nationalist member for Claremont in the Western Australian Legislative Assembly from 1921 to 1924, becoming an Independent Nationalist in 1924....	Nationalist	1921–1924
		Independent Nationalist Independent (politician) In politics, an independent or non-party politician is an individual not affiliated to any political party. Independents may hold a centrist viewpoint between those of major political parties, a viewpoint more extreme than any major party, or they may have a viewpoint based on issues that they do...	1924
	Charles North Charles North (politician) Charles Frederic NorthBurke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition give his full name as "Charles Frederick John North", but most contemporary sources use "Charles Frederic". was an Australian soldier, lawyer and politician...	Nationalist	1924–1945
		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...	1945–1956
	Harold Crommelin	Liberal	1956–1968