Members of the Western Australian Legislative Council, 1940–1944

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This is a list of members of the Western Australian Legislative Council from 22 May 1940 to 21 May 1944. 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.

On 16 January 1942, the Governor assented to the Legislative Council (Postponement of Election) Act 1941 (No. 50 of 1941), which extended the terms of all Councillors whose terms expired on 21 May 1942. This was done, in the words of the Act's preamble, due to the "pressing national emergency arising out of the war with Japan in which the Commonwealth of Australia is presently engaged". Later amendments fixed the date as 21 May 1944, and extended all other Councillors' terms by two years.

NamePartyProvinceTerm
expires		Years in office
Charles Baxter Country East 19461914–1950
Leonard Bolton Nationalist Metropolitan 19441932–1948
Sir Hal Colebatch Nationalist Metropolitan 19481912–1923; 1940–1948
James Cornell Nationalist South 19441912–1946
Cyril Cornish [2] Independent North 19461942–1946
Les Craig Nationalist South-West 19441934–1956
James Dimmitt Nationalist Metropolitan-Suburban 19461938–1953
John Drew Labor Central 19441900–1918; 1924–1947
Gilbert Fraser Labor West 19481928–1958
Frank Gibson [3] Nationalist Metropolitan-Suburban 19441942–1956
Edmund Gray Labor West 19461923–1952
Edmund Hall Country Central 19481928–1947
William Hall Labor North-East 19461938–1963
Vernon Hamersley Country East 19481904–1946
Eric Heenan Labor North-East 19441936–1968
James Hislop [1] Nationalist Metropolitan 19461941–1971
Joseph Holmes [2] Independent North 19461914–1942
Sir John Kirwan Independent South 19461908–1946
William Kitson Labor West 19441924–1947
James Macfarlane [3] Nationalist Metropolitan-Suburban 19441922–1928; 1930–1942
William Mann Nationalist South-West 19461926–1951
George Miles Ind. Nat. North 19441916–1950
Thomas Moore Labor Central 19461920–1926; 1932–1946
John Nicholson [1] Nationalist Metropolitan 19461918–1941
Hubert Parker Nationalist Metropolitan-Suburban 19481934–1954
Harold Piesse Country South-East 19461932–1946
Hugh Roche Country South-East 19481940–1960
Harold Seddon Nationalist North-East 19481922–1954
Alec Thomson Country South-East 19441931–1950
Hobart Tuckey Nationalist South-West 19481934–1951
Frank Welsh Nationalist North 19481940–1954
Charles Williams Labor South 19481928–1948
Garnet Barrington Wood Country East 19441936–1952

Notes

1 On 16 September 1941, Metropolitan Province Nationalist MLC John Nicholson died. James Hislop, one of the Nationalist candidates, won the resulting by-election on 1 November 1941.
2 On 25 April 1942, North Province Independent MLC Joseph Holmes died. Independent candidate Cyril Cornish won the resulting by-election on 13 June 1942.
3 On 16 May 1942, Metropolitan-Suburban Province Nationalist MLC James Macfarlane died. Unendorsed Nationalist candidate Frank Gibson won the resulting by-election on 11 July 1942.

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