Members of the Western Australian Legislative Council, 1944–1946

This is a list of members of the Western Australian Legislative Council from 22 May 1944 to 21 May 1946. 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
Charles Baxter Country East 1946 1914–1950
Leonard Bolton Nationalist Metropolitan 1950 1932–1948
Sir Hal Colebatch Nationalist Metropolitan 1948 1912–1923; 1940–1948
James Cornell Nationalist South 1950 1912–1946
Cyril Cornish Independent North 1946 1942–1946
Les Craig Nationalist South-West 1950 1934–1956
James Dimmitt Nationalist Metropolitan-Suburban 1946 1938–1953
John Drew Labor Central 1950 1900–1918; 1924–1947
Gilbert Fraser Labor West 1948 1928–1958
Frank Gibson Nationalist Metropolitan-Suburban 1950 1942–1956
Edmund Gray Labor West 1946 1923–1952
Edmund Hall Country Central 1948 1928–1947
William Hall Labor North-East 1946 1938–1963
Vernon Hamersley Country East 1948 1904–1946
Eric Heenan Labor North-East 1950 1936–1968
James Hislop Nationalist Metropolitan 1946 1941–1971
Sir John Kirwan Independent South 1946 1908–1946
William Kitson Labor West 1950 1924–1947
Anthony Loton[1] Country South-East 1946 1944–1965
William Mann Nationalist South-West 1946 1926–1951
George Miles Independent North 1950 1916–1950
Thomas Moore Labor Central 1946 1920–1926; 1932–1946
Hubert Parker Nationalist Metropolitan-Suburban 1948 1934–1954
Harold Piesse[1] Country South-East 1946 1932–1946
Hugh Roche Country South-East 1948 1940–1960
Harold Seddon Nationalist North-East 1948 1922–1954
Alec Thomson Country South-East 1950 1931–1950
Hobart Tuckey Nationalist South-West 1948 1934–1951
Frank Welsh Nationalist North 1948 1940–1954
Charles Williams Labor South 1948 1928–1948
Garnet Barrington Wood Country East 1950 1936–1952

Notes

1 On 16 September 1944, South-East Province Country MLC Harold Piesse died. Anthony Loton, one of the three Country Party candidates, won the resulting by-election on 18 November 1944.

Sources

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  • Black, David; Bolton, Geoffrey (2001). Biographical Register of Members of the Parliament of Western Australia, Volume Two, 1930-1990 (Revised ed.). Parliament House: Parliament of Western Australia. ISBN 0731697839.