Electoral results for the district of Nelson explained

This is a list of electoral results for the Electoral district of Nelson in Western Australian state elections.

Members for Nelson

Member		Party	Term
		James George Lee-Steere	Independent	1890–1897
			Ministerial	1897–1903
		John Walter	Ministerial	1903–1904
		Charles Layman	Independent	1904–1905
			Ministerial	1905–1911
			Liberal	1911–1914
		Francis Willmott	Country	1914–1921
		John Henry Smith	Independent	1921–1922
			Country	1922–1923
			Country (MCP)	1923–1924
			Nationalist	1924–1936
		Clarence Doust	Independent	1936–1939
		John Henry Smith	Nationalist	1939–1943
		Ernest Hoar	Labor	1943–1950

Election results

Elections in the 1920s

• Preferences were not distributed.

Elections in the 1910s

• Willmott's designation at the 1914 election was simply "Country", rather than "National Country".