Members of the Western Australian Legislative Council, 1938–1940
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This is a list of members of the Western Australian Legislative Council
Western Australian Legislative Council
The Legislative Council, or upper house, is one of the two chambers of parliament in the Australian state of Western Australia. Its central purpose is to act as a house of review for legislation passed through the lower house, the Legislative Assembly. It sits in Parliament House in the state...

from 22 May 1938 to 21 May 1940. 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.

Terms expiring in 1942 and thereafter were extended due to World War II
World War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...

 by the Legislative Council (Postponement of Election) Act 1941 (No. 50 of 1941), which was given assent on 16 January 1942.
Name Party Province Term
expires
Years in office
Edward Angelo  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...

 
North  1940 1934–1940
Charles Baxter  Country
National Party of Western Australia
The National Party of Western Australia is a political party in Western Australia. It is affiliated with the National Party of Australia but maintains a separate structure and identity....

 
East  1944* 1914–1950
Leonard Bolton  Nationalist Metropolitan
Metropolitan Province
The Metropolitan Province was a multi-member electoral province of the Western Australian Legislative Council, located in the metropolitan region of Perth. It was created by the Constitution Acts Amendment Act 1893, and became effective on 22 May 1894 following the first council elections following...

 
1942* 1932–1948
James Cornell  Nationalist South  1942* 1912–1946
Les Craig  Nationalist South-West  1942* 1934–1956
James Dimmitt  Nationalist Metropolitan-Suburban
Metropolitan-Suburban Province
The Metropolitan-Suburban Province was a three-member electoral province of the Western Australian Legislative Council, located in the metropolitan region of Perth. It was created by the Constitution Acts Amendment Act 1899, and became effective on 29 August 1900 following a special election to...

 
1944* 1938–1953
John Drew  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...

 
Central  1942* 1900–1918; 1924–1947
James Franklin  Nationalist Metropolitan
Metropolitan Province
The Metropolitan Province was a multi-member electoral province of the Western Australian Legislative Council, located in the metropolitan region of Perth. It was created by the Constitution Acts Amendment Act 1893, and became effective on 22 May 1894 following the first council elections following...

 
1940 1928–1940
Gilbert Fraser  Labor West  1940 1928–1958
Edmund Gray  Labor West  1944* 1923–1952
Edmund Hall
Edmund Hall
Edmund Henry Hartley Hall was an Australian politician who represented the Western Australian Legislative Council district of Central Province from 1928 until 1947, and the Legislative Assembly seat of Geraldton from 1947 until 1950...

 
Country Central  1940 1928–1947
William Hall  Labor North-East  1944* 1938–1963
Vernon Hamersley
Vernon Hamersley
Vernon Hamersley served the longest term ever as a Member of the Western Australian Legislative Council.-Life and career:...

 
Country East  1940 1904–1946
Eric Heenan
Eric Heenan (politician)
Born: 29 April 1900, Kanowna, Western Australia to Michael Joseph Heenan and Josephine Frances .Educated CBC Wakefield Street Adelaide, South Australia,Articled to Neville Heenan in NorthamPracticed Law in the Western Australian goldfields and Perth...

 
Labor North-East  1942* 1936–1968
Joseph Holmes  Independent North  1944* 1914–1942
Sir John Kirwan  Independent South  1944* 1908–1946
William Kitson Labor West  1942* 1924–1947
James Macfarlane  Nationalist Metropolitan-Suburban
Metropolitan-Suburban Province
The Metropolitan-Suburban Province was a three-member electoral province of the Western Australian Legislative Council, located in the metropolitan region of Perth. It was created by the Constitution Acts Amendment Act 1899, and became effective on 29 August 1900 following a special election to...

 
1942* 1922–1928; 1930–1942
William Mann  Nationalist South-West  1944* 1926–1951
George Miles  Ind. Nat. North  1942* 1916–1950
Thomas Moore  Labor Central  1944* 1920–1926; 1932–1946
John Nicholson  Nationalist Metropolitan
Metropolitan Province
The Metropolitan Province was a multi-member electoral province of the Western Australian Legislative Council, located in the metropolitan region of Perth. It was created by the Constitution Acts Amendment Act 1893, and became effective on 22 May 1894 following the first council elections following...

 
1944* 1918–1941
Hubert Parker
Hubert Parker
Hubert Stanley Wyborn Parker DSO VD was an Australian politician who represented the Western Australian Legislative Assembly seat of North-East Fremantle from 1930 until 1933, and one of the three Legislative Council seats for Metropolitan-Suburban Province from 1934 until 1954...

 
Nationalist Metropolitan-Suburban
Metropolitan-Suburban Province
The Metropolitan-Suburban Province was a three-member electoral province of the Western Australian Legislative Council, located in the metropolitan region of Perth. It was created by the Constitution Acts Amendment Act 1899, and became effective on 29 August 1900 following a special election to...

 
1940 1934–1954
Harold Piesse  Country South-East  1944* 1932–1946
Harold Seddon  Nationalist North-East  1940 1922–1954
Alec Thomson
Alec Thomson
Alexander Thomson , known as Alec Thomson, was an Australian politician, and a member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly from 1914 until 1930 representing the seat of Katanning, and a member of the Western Australian Legislative Council representing the South Province from 1931 until...

 
Country South-East  1942* 1931–1950
Hobart Tuckey  Nationalist South-West  1940 1934–1951
Charles Williams
Charles Williams (Australian politician)
Charles Bennett Williams was an Australian politician. He was a Labor member of the Western Australian Legislative Council from 1928 to 1948....

 
Labor South  1940 1928–1948
Charles Wittenoom
Charles Wittenoom
Charles Horne Wittenoon , Australian politician, was a Member of the Western Australian Legislative Council for twelve years....

 
Country South-East  1940 1928–1940
Garnet Barrington Wood  Country East 1942* 1936–1952
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