Members of the Australian House of Representatives, 1922–1925

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This is a list of the members of the Australian House of Representatives in the ninth Australian Parliament, which was elected at the 1922 election on 16 December 1922. The incumbent Nationalist Party of Australia led by Prime Minister of Australia Billy Hughes lost its majority. However the opposition Australian Labor Party led by Matthew Charlton did not take office as the Nationalists sought a coalition with the Country Party led by Earle Page, however the Country Party made Hughes's resignation the price for joining. Hughes was replaced by Stanley Bruce.

Member		Electorate	State	In office
Frank Anstey	Labor	Bourke	Vic	1910–1934
Llewellyn Atkinson	Country	Wilmot	Tas	1906–1929
Fred Bamford	Nationalist	Herbert	Qld	1901–1925
James Bayley	Nationalist	Oxley	Qld	1917–1931
Arthur Blakeley	Labor	Darling	NSW	1917–1934
Eric Bowden	Nationalist	Parramatta	NSW	1906–1910, 1919–1929
Frank Brennan	Labor	Batman	Vic	1911–1931, 1934–1949
Stanley Bruce	Nationalist	Flinders	Vic	1918–1929, 1931–1933
Donald Charles Cameron	Nationalist	Brisbane	Qld	1919–1931, 1934–1937
Malcolm Cameron	Nationalist	Barker	SA	1922–1934
Austin Chapman	Nationalist	Eden-Monaro	NSW	1901–1926
Matthew Charlton	Labor	Hunter	NSW	1910–1928
Percy Coleman	Labor	Reid	NSW	1922–1931
Robert Cook	Country	Indi	Vic	1919–1928
Edward Corser	Nationalist	Wide Bay	Qld	1915–1928
Lou Cunningham	Labor	Gwydir	NSW	1919–1925, 1929–1931
Jack Duncan-Hughes	Nationalist	Boothby	SA	1922–1928, 1931–1938 (S), 1940–1943
James Fenton	Labor	Maribyrnong	Vic	1910–1934
Frank Forde	Labor	Capricornia	Qld	1922–1946
Richard Foster	Nationalist	Wakefield	SA	1909–1928
Frederick Francis	Nationalist	Henty	Vic	1919–1925
Josiah Francis	Nationalist	Moreton	Qld	1922–1955
Moses Gabb	Labor	Angas	SA	1919–1925, 1929–1934
Sydney Gardner	Nationalist	Robertson	NSW	1922–1940
William Gibson	Country	Corangamite	Vic	1918–1929, 1931–1934
Albert Green	Labor	Kalgoorlie	WA	1922–1940
Roland Green	Country	Richmond	NSW	1922–1937
Henry Gregory	Country	Swan	WA	1913–1940
Sir Littleton Groom	Nationalist	Darling Downs	Qld	1901–1929, 1931–1936
William Hill	Country	Echuca	Vic	1919–1934
Sir Neville Howse	Nationalist	Calare	NSW	1922–1929
Billy Hughes	Nationalist	North Sydney	NSW	1901–1952
James Hunter	Country	Maranoa	Qld	1921–1940
Geoffry Hurry	Nationalist	Bendigo	Vic	1922–1929
Syd Jackson	Nationalist	Bass	Tas	1919–1929
Sir Elliot Johnson	Nationalist	Lang	NSW	1903–1928
William Killen	Country	Riverina	NSW	1922–1931
Andrew Lacey	Labor	Grey	SA	1922–1931
William Lambert	Labor	West Sydney	NSW	1921–1928
John Latham	Liberal	Kooyong	Vic	1922–1934
Bert Lazzarini	Labor	Werriwa	NSW	1919–1931, 1934–1952
John Lister	Nationalist	Corio	Vic	1917–1929
George Mackay	Nationalist	Lilley	Qld	1917–1934
William Mahony	Labor	Dalley	NSW	1915–1927
Norman Makin	Labor	Hindmarsh	SA	1919–1946, 1954–1963
William Maloney	Labor	Melbourne	Vic	1904–1940
Edward Mann	Nationalist	Perth	WA	1922–1929
Arthur Manning	Nationalist	Macquarie	NSW	1922–1928
Walter Marks	Nationalist	Wentworth	NSW	1919–1931
Charles Marr	Nationalist	Parkes	NSW	1919–1929, 1931–1943
James Mathews	Labor	Melbourne Ports	Vic	1906–1931
George Maxwell	Nationalist	Fawkner	Vic	1917–1935
Charles McDonald	Labor	Kennedy	Qld	1901–1925
Frederick McDonald	Labor	Barton	NSW	1922–1925
Charles McGrath	Labor	Ballaarat	Vic	1913–1919, 1920–1934
John McNeill	Labor	Wannon	Vic	1922–1925, 1929–1931
Parker Moloney	Labor	Hume	NSW	1910–1913, 1914–1917, 1919–1931
Harold George Nelson ^[1]	Labor	Northern Territory	NT	1922–1934
David O'Keefe	Labor	Denison	Tas	1901–1906 (S), 1910–1920 (S), 1922–1925
Sir Earle Page	Country	Cowper	NSW	1919–1961
Thomas Paterson	Country	Gippsland	Vic	1922–1943
Herbert Pratten	Nationalist	Martin	NSW	1921–1928
John Prowse	Country	Forrest	WA	1919–1943
Edward Charles Riley	Labor	Cook	NSW	1922–1934
Edward Riley	Labor	South Sydney	NSW	1910–1931
Sir Granville Ryrie	Nationalist	Warringah	NSW	1911–1927
James Scullin	Labor	Yarra	Vic	1910–1913, 1922–1949
Alfred Seabrook	Nationalist	Franklin	Tas	1922–1928
Percy Stewart	Independent	Wimmera	Vic	1919–1931
Victor Thompson	Country	New England	NSW	1922–1940
David Watkins	Labor	Newcastle	NSW	1901–1935
William Watson	Independent	Fremantle	WA	1922–1928, 1931–1934
William Watt	Liberal	Balaclava	Vic	1914–1929
John West	Labor	East Sydney	NSW	1910–1931
Joshua Whitsitt	Country	Darwin	Tas	1922–1925
George Edwin Yates	Labor	Adelaide	SA	1914–1919, 1922–1931

Notes

↑ At this time, the member for the Northern Territory could only vote on matters relating to the Northern Territory.

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References

Votes and Proceedings of the House of Representatives during the session of the Ninth Parliament. Parliament of Australia. 1925.
"Members of the House of Representatives since 1901". Parliamentary Handbook. Parliament of Australia. Archived from the original on 25 July 2008. Retrieved 19 November 2008.

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