This is a list of members of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly between the 1914 election and the 1917 election, together known as the Ninth Parliament. The re-election of Premier John Scaddan's Labor Government with a 26-24 majority in 1914 was tempered when, a year later, Labor member Joseph Gardiner's seat was declared vacant on account of his non-attendance and a Liberal was elected in his stead, and Labor became a minority government when on 18 December 1915, Edward Johnston resigned from the Labor Party and became an independent. On 27 July 1916, the Scaddan Ministry was defeated and the Liberals' Frank Wilson became the new premier.
In March 1917, the Labor Party split ahead of the 1917 federal election. The federal party had split a year earlier over military conscription, and in Western Australia, where conscription was widely supported, all of the Labor Senators up for election had joined Billy Hughes's Nationalist Party. A number of state Labor members, including former Premier John Scaddan, either resigned from the Party or were expelled for supporting them. By May 1917, they had formed a new National Labor Party with a base in the Goldfields region, historically the heart of the Labor vote in Western Australia. In June 1917, they formed a coalition with the new Nationalist Party (which replaced the former Liberal Party) and the Country Party to form a governing coalition. With these arrangements, another Ministry was formed under new Premier Henry Lefroy.
Name | Party | District | Years in office |
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Eben Allen | Liberal | West Perth | 1911–1917 |
Hon William Angwin [1] | Labor | North-East Fremantle | 1904–1905; 1906–1927 |
Harry Bolton | Labor/Nat. Lab. | South Fremantle | 1904–1917 |
William Butcher [2] | Liberal | Roebourne | 1901–1911; 1915–1917 |
William Carpenter | Labor/Nat. Lab. | Fremantle | 1911–1917 |
Thomas Chesson | Labor | Cue | 1913–1930 |
Hon Philip Collier | Labor | Boulder | 1905–1948 |
Sir James Connolly [9] | Liberal | Perth | 1914–1917 |
John Cunningham | Country | Greenough | 1914–1917 |
Samuel Elliott [7] | Liberal | Geraldton | 1913–1914; 1917 |
George Foley | Labor/Nat. Lab. | Mount Leonora | 1911–1920 |
Hon James Gardiner [8] | Country | Irwin | 1901–1904; 1914–1921 |
Hon Joseph Gardiner [2] | Labor | Roebourne | 1911–1915 |
Hon William James George [4] | Liberal | Murray-Wellington | 1895–1902; 1909–1930 |
Archibald Gilchrist | Liberal | Gascoyne | 1914–1917 |
Albert Green | Labor | Kalgoorlie | 1911–1913; 1914–1921 |
Harry Griffiths | Country | York | 1914–1921; 1924–1935 |
John Hardwick | Liberal | East Perth | 1904–1911; 1914–1921 |
Tom Harrison | Country | Avon | 1914–1924 |
Edward Heitmann [7] | Labor/Nat. Lab. | Geraldton | 1904–1913; 1914–1917 |
Henry Hickmott | Country | Pingelly | 1914–1924 |
John Holman | Labor | Murchison | 1901–1921; 1923–1925 |
Hon Charles Hudson [10] | Labor/Nat. Lab. | Yilgarn | 1905–1921 |
Hon William Johnson | Labor | Guildford | 1901–1905; 1906–1917; 1924–1948 |
Edward Johnston [3] | Labor/Independent/ Country | Williams-Narrogin | 1911–1928 |
George Lambert [6] | Labor | Coolgardie | 1916–1930; 1933–1941 |
Hon Sir Henry Lefroy [4] | Liberal | Moore | 1892–1901; 1911–1921 |
John Lutey [5] [8] | Labor | Brownhill-Ivanhoe | 1916; 1917–1932 |
Arthur Male | Liberal | Kimberley | 1905–1917 |
Charles McDowall [6] | Labor | Coolgardie | 1908–1916 |
Hon James Mitchell [4] | Liberal | Northam | 1905–1933 |
John Mullany | Labor/Nat. Lib. | Menzies | 1911–1924 |
Selby Munsie | Labor | Hannans | 1911–1938 |
William Ralph Nairn | Liberal | Swan | 1914–1921 |
Peter O'Loghlen | Labor | Forrest | 1908–1923 |
Alfred Piesse | Country | Toodyay | 1911–1924 |
Robert Pilkington [9] | Nat. Lib. | Perth | 1917–1921 |
William Price | Labor/Nat. Lab. | Albany | 1909–1917 |
Hon Robert Robinson [4] | Liberal | Canning | 1914–1921 |
Hon John Scaddan [5] [8] | Labor/Nat. Lab. | Brownhill-Ivanhoe | 1904–1917; 1919–1924; 1930–1933 |
James MacCallum Smith | Liberal | North Perth | 1914–1939 |
Bartholomew James Stubbs | Labor | Subiaco | 1911–1917 |
Sydney Stubbs | Liberal/Country | Wagin | 1911–1947 |
George Taylor | Labor/Nat. Lab. | Mount Margaret | 1901–1930 |
William Lemen Thomas | Labor/Nat. Lab. | Bunbury | 1911–1917 |
Alec Thomson | Liberal/Country | Katanning | 1914–1930 |
Hon Michael Troy | Labor | Mount Magnet | 1904–1939 |
Hon Henry Underwood | Labor/Nat. Lib. | Pilbara | 1906–1924 |
John Veryard | Liberal | Leederville | 1905–1908; 1914–1921 |
Hon Thomas Walker | Labor | Kanowna | 1905–1932 |
Charles Wansbrough | Country | Beverley | 1914–1917; 1924–1930 |
Hon Francis Willmott | Country | Nelson | 1914–1921 |
Arthur Wilson | Labor | Collie | 1908–1947 |
Hon Frank Wilson [4] | Liberal | Sussex | 1897–1901; 1904–1917 |
Evan Wisdom | Liberal | Claremont | 1911–1917 |
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