Members of the Western Australian Legislative Council, 1914–1916

This is a list of members of the Western Australian Legislative Council from 22 May 1914 to 21 May 1916. 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
Joseph AllenLiberalWest19201914–1920
Richard ArdaghLaborNorth-East19181912–1924
Charles BaxterCountryEast19201914–1950
Henry BriggsLiberalWest19161896–1919
Henry CarsonCountryCentral19201914–1920
Ephraim ClarkeLiberalSouth-West19201901–1921
Hal ColebatchLiberalEast19181912–1923
Francis ConnorIndependentNorth19181906–1916
James CornellLaborSouth19181912–1946
Joseph CullenLiberalSouth-East19181909–1917
Jabez DoddLaborSouth19161910–1928
John DrewLaborCentral19181900–1918; 1924–1947
Joseph DuffellLiberalMetropolitan-Suburban19201914–1926
Douglas Gawler[2]LiberalMetropolitan-Suburban19161910–1915
James Greig[3]CountrySouth-East19201916–1925
Sir John Winthrop Hackett[4]LiberalSouth-West19181890–1916
Vernon HamersleyLiberalEast19161904–1946
Joseph HolmesLiberal/Ind.North19201914–1942
Arthur JenkinsLiberalMetropolitan19201898–1904; 1908–1917
Walter KingsmillLiberalMetropolitan19161903–1922
John KirwanIndependentSouth19201908–1946
Robert LynnLiberalWest19181912–1924
Cuthbert McKenzieCountrySouth-East19161910–1922
Robert McKenzieLiberalNorth-East19161904–1916
Edward McLartyLiberalSouth-West19161894–1916
Harry MillingtonLaborNorth-East19201914–1920
William PatrickCountryCentral19161904–1916
Charles Piesse[1]LiberalSouth-East19201894–1914
Archibald SandersonLiberalMetropolitan-Suburban19181912–1922
Athelstan Saw[2]LiberalMetropolitan-Suburban19161915–1929
George Sewell[1][3]CountrySouth-East19201914–1916
Charles SommersLiberalMetropolitan19181900–1918
Sir Edward WittenoomLiberalNorth19161883–1884; 1885–1886;
1894–1898; 1902–1906;
1910–1934

Notes

1 On 13 July 1914, South-East Liberal MLC Charles Piesse died. Country candidate George Sewell won the resulting by-election on 18 August 1914.
2 On 16 May 1915, Metropolitan-Suburban Province Liberal MLC Douglas Gawler died. Liberal candidate Athelstan Saw won the resulting by-election on 26 June 1915.
3 On 8 March 1916, South-East Country MLC George Sewell died. Country candidate James Greig was returned unopposed on 20 April 1916.
4 On 19 February 1916, South-West Province Liberal MLC John Winthrop Hackett died. A by-election was called to coincide with the upcoming Council elections on 13 May 1916.

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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