Members of the Western Australian Legislative Council, 1950–1952
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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 1950 to 21 May 1952. 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.

Several of the provinces were renamed at the election. The Electoral Districts Act 1947 had obviated the need for Parliament to redistribute seats itself, instead appointing three Electoral Commissioners who were to review the boundaries according to certain defined criteria. The redistribution was gazetted on 21 December 1948, but did not come into effect until 22 May 1950.

The changes of names were as follows:
  • Central Province → Midland Province
  • East Province → Central Province
  • Metropolitan-Suburban Province → Suburban Province
  • South Province → South-East Province
  • South-East Province → South Province

Name Party Province Term expires Years in office
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....

 
Central  1952 1914–1950
Norm 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....

 
Central  1952 1950–1958; 1960–1983
George Bennetts  Labor
Australian Labor Party
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South-East  1952 1946–1965
Robert Boylen  Labor South-East  1956 1947–1955
Les Craig  Liberal
Liberal Party of Australia
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South-West  1956 1934–1956
John Cunningham  Liberal South-East  1948 1948–1954; 1955–1962
Evan Davies  Labor West  1956 1947–1963
James Dimmitt  Liberal 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...

 
1952 1938–1953
Leslie Diver Country Central  1956 1952–1974
Robert Forrest
Robert Forrest
Robert Forrest was a Scottish monumental sculptor, receiving many important commissions in the early 19th century.He was self-taught, beginning his working life as a mason in a stone quarry in Clydesdale...

 
Liberal North  1952 1946–1952
Gilbert Fraser  Labor West  1954 1928–1958
Sir Frank Gibson
Frank Gibson (politician)
Sir Frank Ernest Gibson was an Australian politician.Born at Egerton, Victoria, to Irish-born policeman Alexander Gibson and Louisa Herring, he attended Grenville College and the School of Mines at Ballarat before moving to Western Australia as a qualified pharmacist, setting up a business in...

 
Liberal 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...

 
1956 1942–1956
Edmund Gray  Labor West  1952 1923–1952
William Hall  Labor North-East  1952 1938–1963
Harry Hearn  Liberal 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...

 
1954 1948–1956
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  1956 1936–1968
Charles Henning Liberal South-West  1954 1951–1955
James Hislop  Liberal 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...

 
1952 1941–1971
Arthur Jones  Country Midland  1956 1950–1967
Sir Charles Latham
Charles Latham
Sir Charles Latham was an Australian politician born in Hythe, Kent in England.- Biography :Latham became an orphan in early childhood when his parents Thomas Latham and Isabella died before the age of 8...

 
Country Central  1954 1946–1960
Les Logan  Country Midland  1954 1947–1974
Anthony Loton  Country South  1952 1944–1965
William Mann Liberal South-West  1952 1926–1951
James Murray Liberal South-West  1952 1951–1965
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...

 
Liberal 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...

 
1954 1934–1954
Hugh Roche  Country South  1954 1940–1960
Sir Harold Seddon  Liberal North-East  1954 1922–1954
Charles Simpson  Liberal Midland  1952 1946–1963
Harry Strickland  Labor North  1956 1950–1970
Jack Thomson  Country South  1956 1950–1974
Hobart Tuckey Liberal South-West  1954 1934–1951
Keith Watson  Liberal 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...

 
1956 1948–1968
Frank Welsh
Frank Welsh (politician)
Frank Robert Welsh was an Australian politician who represented the Western Australian Legislative Assembly seat of Pilbara from 1933 until 1939, and one of the three Legislative Council seats for North Province from 1940 until 1954...

 
Liberal North  1954 1940–1954
Garnet Barrington Wood Country Central 1956 1936–1952
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