The Electoral district of Mount Hawthorn was a Legislative Assembly

Western Australian Legislative Assembly

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 electorate

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 in the state

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 of Western Australia

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. The district was named for the inner northern Perth

Perth, Western Australia

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 suburb of Mount Hawthorn

Mount Hawthorn, Western Australia

Mount Hawthorn is a suburb of Perth, Western Australia, located within the City of Vincent.The Mount Hawthorn area was first selected for urban development in 1887. In the late 1890s part of it was purchased by a syndicate of Edward Wittenoom, a politician and pastoralist; James Hicks and C. L. W....

, which fell within its borders.

Mount Hawthorn was a new seat created under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1929, which took effect at the 1930 election. The Labor

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 member for Leederville

Electoral district of Leederville

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 and Collier Government

First Collier Ministry

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 minister, Harry Millington ran for and won the seat, holding it until his retirement from politics at the 1947 election

Western Australian state election, 1947

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, in which Labor lost government after 14 years in office. Les Nimmo of the Liberal Party

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 narrowly won the seat, but with a redistribution prior to the 1950 election reducing the likelihood of a repeat, Nimmo opted to contest the new seat of Wembley Beaches

Electoral district of Wembley Beaches

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. The redistribution had also merged the North-West

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 Labor-held seats of Pilbara and Roebourne

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, so Pilbara MLA Bill Hegney contested and won Mount Hawthorn, which he held until his retirement in 1968. Ron Bertram then held the seat until its abolishment at the 1983 election

Western Australian state election, 1983

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. The redistribution which effected the end of the seat split its voters between the seat of Subiaco

Electoral district of Subiaco

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, Balcatta

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 (which Bertram contested and won) and Perth

Electoral district of Perth

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.

Members for Mount Hawthorn

Member		Party	Term
	Harry Millington	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...	1930–1947
	Les Nimmo	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...	1947–1950
	Bill Hegney	Labor	1950–1968
	Ron Bertram	Labor	1968–1983