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
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:
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 |
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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 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... |
South-East | 1952 | 1946–1965 |
Robert Boylen | Labor | South-East | 1956 | 1947–1955 |
Les Craig | 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... |
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 |