West Province (Western Australia)

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West Province
Western AustraliaLegislative Council
State Western Australia
Created 1894
Abolished 1989

West Province was an electoral province of the Legislative Council of Western Australia between 1894 and 1989. It elected three members from 1894 to 1965 and two members from 1965 to 1989.

Western Australian Legislative Council upper house of the Legislature of the state of Western Australia

The Western Australian Legislative Council is the upper house of the Parliament of Western Australia, a state of Australia. It is regarded as a house of review for legislation passed by the Legislative Assembly, the lower house. The two Houses of Parliament sit in Parliament House in the state capital, Perth.

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Members

Three members (1894–1965)
Member 1PartyTermMember 2PartyTermMember 3PartyTerm
  Daniel Congdon None1894–1900  Edward Davies None1894–1896  Harry Marshall None1894–1895
    Alfred Kidson None1895–1902
  Sir Henry Briggs None1896–1911 
  Matthew Moss None1900–1901  
  Robert Laurie None1901–1912  
   Matthew MossNone1902–1911
  Liberal 1911–1912  Liberal 1911–1917  Liberal 1911–1914
  Robert Lynn Liberal 1912–1917  
    Joseph Allen Liberal 1914–1917
  Nationalist 1917–1924  Nationalist 1917–1919  Nationalist 1917–1920
   Alexander Panton [1] Labor 1919–1922 
    Frederick Baglin Labor 1920–1923
   George Potter Nationalist 1922–1928 
    Edmund Gray Labor 1923–1952
  William Kitson Labor 1924–1947  
   Gilbert Fraser Labor 1928–1958 
  Evan Davies Labor 1947–1963  
    Frederick Lavery Labor 1952–1965
   Ronald Thompson Labor 1959–1965 
  Jerry Dolan Labor 1963–1965  

Two members (1965–1989)
Member 1PartyTermMember 2PartyTerm
  Charles Abbey Liberal 1965–1977  Ray Jones Country 1965–1967
   Fred White Country 1967–1973
   Gordon Masters Liberal 1974–1989
  Neil Oliver Liberal 1977–1989 

Notes

  1. "WESTERN AUSTRALIA". Northern Times . XIV, (724). Western Australia. 12 July 1919. p. 2. Retrieved 2 January 2017 via National Library of Australia.

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David William Black is a Western Australian historian. He has lectured and written extensively on Australian and Western Australian history, especially political history. He was Professor in History and Politics in the School of Social Sciences and Asian Languages at Curtin University of Technology until his retirement in 2002, and is now Professor Emeritus. He is currently Chairperson of the Parliamentary History Advisory Committee, and a Parliamentary Fellow (History).