Members of the Western Australian Legislative Council, 1920–1922

This is a list of members of the Western Australian Legislative Council from 22 May 1920 to 21 May 1922. 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.

Name Party Province Term
expires
Years in office
Richard ArdaghNational LaborNorth-East19241912–1924
Frederick BaglinLaborWest19261920–1923
Charles BaxterCountryEast19261914–1950
Ephraim Clarke[1]NationalistSouth-West19261901–1921
Hal ColebatchNationalistEast19241912–1923
James CornellNational LaborSouth19241912–1946
James CunninghamLaborNorth-East19221916–1922
Jabez DoddNational LaborSouth19221910–1928
Joseph DuffellNationalistMetropolitan-Suburban19261914–1926
John EwingNationalistSouth-West19241916–1933
James GreigCountrySouth-East19261916–1925
Vernon HamersleyCountryEast19221904–1946
Edgar HarrisNationalistNorth-East19261920–1934
James HickeyLaborCentral19221916–1928
Joseph HolmesIndependentNorth19261914–1942
Walter KingsmillIndependentMetropolitan19221903–1922
John KirwanIndependentSouth19261908–1946
Arthur LovekinNationalistMetropolitan19241919–1931
Robert LynnNationalistWest19241912–1924
Cuthbert McKenzieCountrySouth-East19221910–1922
George MilesIndependentNorth19241916–1950
Joshua MillsInd. Nat.Central19241918–1924
Thomas MooreLaborCentral19261920–1926; 1932–1946
John NicholsonNationalistMetropolitan19261918–1941
Alexander PantonLaborWest19221919–1922
Edwin RoseNationalistSouth-West19221916–1934
Archibald SandersonNationalistMetropolitan-Suburban19241912–1922
Athelstan SawNationalistMetropolitan-Suburban19221915–1929
Hector StewartNationalistSouth-East19241917–1931
Francis Willmott[1]CountrySouth-West19261921–1926
Sir Edward WittenoomNationalistNorth19221883–1884; 1885–1886;
1894–1898; 1902–1906;
1910–1934

Notes

1 On 15 April 1921, South-West Province Nationalist MLC Ephraim Clarke died. Country candidate Francis Willmott won the resulting by-election on 21 May 1921.

Sources

  • Black, David (1991). Legislative Council of Western Australia : membership register, electoral law and statistics, 1890-1989. Perth: Parliamentary History Project. ISBN 0-7309-3641-4.
  • Hughes, Colin A.; Aitkin, Don (1986). Voting for the Australian State Upper Houses, 1890-1984. Canberra: Australian National University. ISBN 0-909779-18-X.
  • Black, David; Bolton, Geoffrey (2001). Biographical Register of Members of the Parliament of Western Australia, Volume One, 1870–1930 (Revised ed.). Parliament House: Parliament of Western Australia. ISBN 0730738140.
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