Members of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly, 1904–1905

This is a list of members of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly between the 1904 elections and the 1905 elections, together known as the Fifth Parliament.

Name Party District Years in office
Hon William AngwinLaborEast Fremantle1904–1905; 1906–1927
Hon Thomas Bath[3]LaborBrown Hill1902–1914
Harry BoltonLaborNorth Fremantle1904–1917
Harry BrownMinisterialPerth1904–1911
R. G. BurgesMinisterialYork1903–1905
William ButcherIndependent[5]Gascoyne1901–1911; 1915–1917
Henry CarsonMinisterialGeraldton1904–1906; 1908–1911
Francis ConnorIndependentKimberley1893–1905
Frank CowcherMinisterialWilliams1904–1911
Hon Henry Daglish[1]Labor/IndependentSubiaco1901–1911
Arthur DiamondMinisterialSouth Fremantle1901–1906
Dr Henry EllisLabor/Ind.Lab.Coolgardie1904–1905
John FoulkesMinisterialClaremont1902–1911
Frederick GillLaborBalcatta1904–1905; 1908–1914
William GordonMinisterialCanning1901–1911
Hon Henry Gregory[4]MinisterialMenzies1897–1911
John Hardwick[2]MinisterialEast Perth1904–1911; 1914–1921
Charles HarperIndependentBeverley1890–1905
Hon Robert Hastie[1]LaborKanowna1901–1905
Thomas HaywardMinisterialWellington1901–1911
Edward HeitmannLaborCue1904–1913; 1914–1917
Ernest HenshawLaborCollie1904–1905
Hon John Sydney Hicks[4]MinisterialRoebourne1901–1908
Hon John Holman[1]LaborMurchison1901–1921; 1923–1925
John Marquis HopkinsMinisterialBoulder1901–1905; 1908–1910
Austin HoranLaborYilgarn1904–1911
James IsdellIndependent[5]Pilbara1903–1906
Mathieson JacobyIndependent[5]Swan1901–1905; 1908–1911
Hon Walter James[2]MinisterialEast Perth1894–1904
Hon William Johnson[1]LaborKalgoorlie1901–1905; 1906–1917;
1924–1948
Charles KeyserLaborAlbany1904–1905
Charles LaymanIndependent[5]Nelson1904–1914
Hon Patrick Lynch[3]LaborMount Leonora1904–1906
John McLartyMinisterialMurray1904–1909
Hon Newton Moore[4]MinisterialBunbury1904–1911
Samuel MooreMinisterialIrwin1904–1914
Charles MoranIndependentWest Perth1894–1901; 1902–1905
John NansonMinisterialGreenough1901–1905; 1908–1914
Ted NeedhamLaborFremantle1904–1905; 1933–1953
Wallace NelsonLaborHannans1904–1905
Frederick Henry PiesseIndependent[5]Katanning1890–1909
Timothy QuinlanMinisterialToodyay1890–1894; 1897–1911
Hon Cornthwaite Rason[4]MinisterialGuildford1897–1906
John ScaddanLaborIvanhoe1904–1917; 1919–1924;
1930–1933
Hon George Taylor[1]LaborMount Margaret1901–1930
Albert ThomasIndependentDundas1901–1905
Michael TroyLaborMount Magnet1904–1939
Alfred WattsLaborNortham1904–1905
Albert WilsonLaborForrest1904–1908
Francis WilsonLaborNorth Perth1904–1905
Hon Frank Wilson[4]Independent[5]Sussex1897–1901; 1904–1917

Notes
1 Following the 1904 state election a new Ministry consisting of six members, including one Member of the Legislative Council, was appointed. These members were therefore required to resign and contest ministerial by-elections on 19 August 1904, at which all were returned unopposed.
2 Sir Walter James, the Ministerialist member for East Perth and former Premier, resigned on 4 October 1904 to take up the position of Agent-General for Western Australia in London. At the resulting by-election on 20 October 1904, Ministerial candidate John Hardwick won the seat.
3 Following a cabinet reshuffle on 7 June 1905, the Member for Brown Hill, Thomas Bath, was appointed Minister for Education and Lands, and the Member for Mount Leonora, Patrick Lynch, was appointed Minister for Works. Both were therefore required to resign and contest ministerial by-elections. Bath was returned unopposed on 22 June 1905. Lynch won the by-election in his seat against a second candidate on 30 June 1905.
4 Following the failure of the Daglish Ministry in a want of confidence motion on 25 August 1905, a new five-member Ministry comprising Ministerialist members led by Cornthwaite Rason was formed. These members were therefore required to resign and contest ministerial by-elections. John Sydney Hicks, the member for Roebourne, was returned unopposed, while the other four ministers, who were contested, won the by-elections on 14 September 1905. A new election, held on 27 October, was then called to secure parliamentary support for the Ministry.
5 Prior to the 1904 election, Labor had been a minor party and government had resided with the supporters of premiers and opposition leaders of various political dispositions, who usually held a formal minority of seats in the Legislative Assembly and relied on the support of Independents or the Labor Party. After Labor won minority government at the 1904 election, most of the other factions united into a single grouping, and several of the Independents elected in 1904 became associated with it, and ran as Ministerial candidates in the 1905 election.

Sources
  • Black, David; Prescott, Valerie (1997). Election statistics, Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, 1890-1996. Perth: Parliamentary History Project. ISBN 0-7309-8409-5.
  • Hughes, Colin A.; Graham, B. D. (1976). Voting for the South Australian, Western Australian and Tasmanian Lower Houses, 1890-1964. Canberra: Australian National University. ISBN 0-7081-1334-6.
  • Western Australian Government Gazettes for 1904 and 1905; Indexed under "Electoral".
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