Members of the Western Australian Legislative Council, 1924–1926

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This is a list of members of the Western Australian Legislative Council from 22 May 1924 to 21 May 1926. 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. In the previous term, the Country Party split into rival Ministerial (MCP) and Executive (ECP) factions. The Executive faction, loyal to the Primary Producers' Association, prevailed and by 1925 the Ministerial faction had merged with the remnants of the National Labor Party into the Nationalist Party.

NamePartyProvinceTerm
expires
Years in office
Charles Baxter Country East 19261914–1950
John Reid Brown Labor North-East 19301924–1930
Alfred Burvill Country South-East 19281922–1928
James Cornell National Labor /
Nationalist
South 19301912–1946
Jabez Dodd National Labor/
Nationalist
South 19281910–1928
John Drew Labor Central 19301900–1918; 1924–1947
Joseph Duffell Nationalist Metropolitan-Suburban 19261914–1926
John Ewing Nationalist South-West 19301916–1933
William Glasheen [1] Country South-East 19261925–1932
Edmund Gray Labor West 19261923–1952
James Greig [1] Country South-East 19261916–1925
Vernon Hamersley Country East 19281904–1946
Edgar Harris Nationalist North-East 19261920–1934
James Hickey Labor Central 19281916–1928
Joseph Holmes Independent North 19261914–1942
John Kirwan Independent South 19261908–1946
William Kitson Labor West 19301924–1947
Arthur Lovekin Nationalist Metropolitan 19301919–1931
James Macfarlane Nationalist Metropolitan 19281922–1928; 1930–1942
George Miles Independent North 19301916–1950
Thomas Moore Labor Central 19261920–1926; 1932–1946
John Nicholson Nationalist Metropolitan 19261918–1941
George Potter Nationalist West 19281922–1928
Edwin Rose Nationalist South-West 19281916–1934
Athelstan Saw Nationalist Metropolitan-Suburban 19281915–1929
Harold Seddon Nationalist North-East 19281922–1954
Henry Stephenson Nationalist Metropolitan-Suburban 19301924–1930
Hector Stewart Country South-East 19301917–1931
Francis Willmott Country South-West 19261921–1926
Sir Edward Wittenoom Nationalist North 19281883–1884; 1885–1886;
1894–1898; 1902–1906;
1910–1934
Herbert Yelland MCP/Nationalist East 19301924–1936

Notes

1 On 22 June 1925, South-East Country MLC James Greig died. Country candidate William Glasheen won the resulting by-election on 18 July 1925.

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