Members of the South Australian Legislative Council, 1930–1933

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This is a list of members of the South Australian Legislative Council from 1930 to 1933.

NameDistrictPartyTerm expiryTime in office
Joseph Anderson [2] Central No. 1Independent19381931–1944
Percy Blesing Northern Country Party/LCL [4] 19331924–1949
Frank Condon Central No. 1 Labor 19381928–1961
John Herbert Cooke Central No. 2 Liberal Federation/LCL [4] 19331915–1933
John Cowan SouthernLiberal Federation/LCL [4] 19381910–1944
Walter Gordon Duncan MidlandLiberal Federation/LCL [4] 19381918–1962
Tom Gluyas [2] Central No. 1Labor19381918–1931
Sir David Gordon MidlandLiberal Federation/LCL [4] 19381913–1944
Walter Hannaford MidlandLiberal Federation/LCL [4] 19331912–1941
William Humphrey Harvey Central No. 2Liberal Federation/LCL [4] 19381915–1935
James Jelley Central No. 1Labor/PLP [1] 19331912–1933
Thomas McCallum SouthernLiberal Federation/LCL [4] 19331920–1938
William George Mills NorthernCountry Party/LCL [4] 19331918–1933
William Morrow NorthernLiberal Federation/LCL [4] 19381915–1934
Reuben Cranstoun Mowbray [3] SouthernLCL19381932–1938
Thomas Pascoe MidlandLiberal Federation/LCL [4] 19331900–1933
George Henry Prosser Central No. 2Liberal Federation/LCL [4] 19331921–1933
George Ritchie NorthernLiberal Federation/LCL [4] 19381924–1944
Sir Lancelot Stirling [3] SouthernLiberal Federation/LCL [4] 19381891–1932
Henry Tassie Central No. 2Liberal Federation/LCL [4] 19381918–1938
Stanley Whitford Central No. 1Labor/PLP [1] 19331929–1941
Harry Dove Young SouthernLiberal Federation/LCL [4] 19331927–1941
1 The Australian Labor Party split in August 1931 over the Cabinet's support for the Premiers' Plan as a response to the Great Depression. The state conference of the party expelled all 23 Labor MPs who had voted for the plan, including two of their four MLCs - James Jelley and Stanley Whitford. Jelley and Whitford both joined their expelled House of Assembly colleagues in forming the separate Parliamentary Labor Party. The two remaining MLCs, Frank Condon and Tom Gluyas, remained in the official Labor Party.
2 Labor MLC Tom Gluyas died on 3 September 1931. Independent candidate Joseph Anderson won the resulting by-election on 24 October.
3 LCL MLC Sir Lancelot Stirling died on 24 May 1932. Reuben Cranstoun Mowbray was elected unopposed to the vacancy on 17 June.
4 The two conservative parties, the Liberal Federation and the state branch of the Country Party, merged to create the new Liberal and Country League on 9 June 1932.

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