Members of the Victorian Legislative Council, 1931–1934
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This is a list of members of the Victorian Legislative Council
Victorian Legislative Council
The Victorian Legislative Council, is the upper of the two houses of the Parliament of Victoria, Australia; the lower house being the Legislative Assembly. Both houses sit in Parliament House in Spring Street, Melbourne. The Legislative Council serves as a house of review, in a similar fashion to...

between 1931 and 1934. As half of the Legislative Council's terms expired at each triennial election, half of these members were elected at the 1928 triennial election with terms expiring in 1934, while the other half were elected at the 1931 triennial election with terms expiring in 1937.
Name Party Province Term expires Term of office
William Angliss  United Australia
United Australia Party
The United Australia Party was an Australian political party that was founded in 1931 and dissolved in 1945. It was the political successor to the Nationalist Party of Australia and predecessor to the Liberal Party of Australia...

 
Southern  1934 1912–1952
Frederick Brawn  United Australia Wellington  1934 1907–1934
Alfred Chandler  United Australia South Eastern  1937 1919–1935
Hon Sir Frank Clarke  United Australia Melbourne South  1937 1913–1955
Russell Clarke  United Australia Southern 1937 1910–1937
Harold Cohen
Harold Cohen (politician)
Brigadier Harold Edward Cohen CMG, DSO was an Australian soldier, lawyer and, like his grandfather Edward Cohen, a Victorian State politician....

 
United Australia Melbourne South 1934 1929–1935
Henry Cohen  United Australia Melbourne  1937 1921–1937
George Martley Davis  United Australia Gippsland  1937 1917–1937
James Herbert Disney  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...

 
Melbourne West
Melbourne West Province
Melbourne West Province was an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Council until 2006. It was abolished from the 2006 state election in the wake of the Bracks Labor government's reform of the Legislative Council.-Members for Melbourne West Province:...

 
1937 1916–1943
Clifden Eager  United Australia East Yarra
East Yarra Province
East Yarra Province was an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Council until 2006. It was abolished from the 2006 state election in the wake of the Bracks Labor government's reform of the Legislative Council.-Members for East Yarra Province:...

 
1934 1930–1958
Hon William Edgar
William Edgar
William Edgar is a British mechanical engineer, who was President of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in 2004.He is graduate from Strathclyde University and Birmingham University with an MSc in Thermodynamics and Fluid Mechanics....

 
United Australia East Yarra 1937 1904–1913; 1917–1948
Hon George Goudie  Country
National Party of Australia
The National Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Traditionally representing graziers, farmers and rural voters generally, it began as the The Country Party, but adopted the name The National Country Party in 1975, changed to The National Party of Australia in 1982. The party is...

 
North Western  1937 1919–1949
John Harris  Country North Eastern  1934 1920–1946
Hon John Percy Jones  Labor/United Australia Melbourne East  1934 1910–1940
Herbert Keck  United Australia Bendigo  1937 1921–1937
Esmond Kiernan  Labor/Independent Melbourne North
Melbourne North Province
Melbourne North Province was an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Council until 2006. It was abolished from the 2006 state election in the wake of the Bracks Labor government's reform of the Legislative Council.-Members for Melbourne North Province:...

 
1934 1919–1940
Richard Kilpatrick  Country Northern  1934 1928–1946
Lt Col George Lansell  United Australia Bendigo 1934 1928–1952
Gordon McArthur  United Australia South Western  1937 1931–1965
William McCann
William McCann (politician)
William John McCann was an Australian politician.Born in Kerang to farmer David James and Isabella McCurdy, both Irish-born, he became a dairy farmer at Lake Charm, where he helped to establish an aged care home to which he later retired...

Country North Western 1934 1928–1931
Martin McGregor  United Australia Gippsland 1934 1922–1936
Daniel McNamara  Labor Melbourne East 1937 1916; 1917–1947
Herbert Olney  United Australia Melbourne North 1937 1931–1943
Alfred Pittard  United Australia Wellington 1937 1931–1949
Henry Pye Country North Western 1934 1932–1942
Horace Richardson  United Australia South Western 1934 1912–1934
Marcus Saltau  United Australia Western  1934 1924–1940
Herbert Henry Smith  United Australia Melbourne 1934 1921–1935
George Tuckett  Country Northern 1937 1925–1955
William Tyner  United Australia South Eastern 1934 1922–1940
Hon Robert Henry Williams  Labor/Independent Melbourne West 1934 1922–1938
William Williamson  Ind. Country Western 1937 1931–1937
Albert Zwar  Country North Eastern 1937 1922–1935

In October 1931, William McCann
William McCann (politician)
William John McCann was an Australian politician.Born in Kerang to farmer David James and Isabella McCurdy, both Irish-born, he became a dairy farmer at Lake Charm, where he helped to establish an aged care home to which he later retired...

, Country MLC for North Western Province, resigned to contest the seat of Wimmera
Division of Wimmera
The Division of Wimmera was an Australian Electoral Division in the state of Victoria. It was named after the Wimmera region in which it was located. It originally encompassed the towns of Mildura, Swan Hill and Warracknabeal, but by the time it was abolished in 1977, it had drifted south and grown...

 at the 1931 federal election
Australian federal election, 1931
Federal elections were held in Australia on 19 December 1931. All 75 seats in the House of Representatives, and 18 of the 36 seats in the Senate were up for election...

. Country candidate Henry Pye won the resulting by-election in March 1932.

Sources

  • Re-member (a database of all Victorian MPs since 1851). Parliament of Victoria
    Parliament of Victoria
    The Parliament of Victoria is the bicameral legislature of the Australian state of Victoria. It follows a Westminster-derived parliamentary system and consists of The Queen, represented by the Governor of Victoria; the Legislative Council ; and the Legislative Assembly...

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