Members of the Australian Senate, 1923–1926 explained

This is a list of members of the Australian Senate from 1923 to 1926.^[1] Half of its members were elected at the 13 December 1919 election and had terms starting on 1 July 1920 and finishing on 30 June 1926; the other half were elected at the 16 December 1922 election and had terms starting on 1 July 1923 and finishing on 30 June 1929.

This period was marked by the number of casual vacancies and the filling of these vacancies was complex. While senators were elected for a six-year term, people appointed to a casual vacancy only held office until the earlier of the next election for the House of Representatives or the Senate.^[2] Because the 1925 election was a half senate election, each state would ordinarily elect 3 senators. NSW however had 2 additional vacancies as a result of the death of 2 senators with terms ending in 1929. The first three elected, Cox, Duncan and Massy-Greene won the full term from 1 July 1926 to 30 June 1932, while the next two elected Abbott and Thomas won the long vacancies finishing on 30 June 1929. Massy-Greene who had been appointed to fill one of the vacancies in 1923 ceased to be a senator between 14 November 1925 and the start of his new term on 1 July 1926.^[3] Victoria had 1 additional vacancy, a short vacancy with the term ending in 1926. Plain was the third senator elected and thus won both the short vacancy ending on 30 June 1926 and the full term from 1 July 1926 to 30 June 1932.^[4]

Senator	Party		State	Term ending	Years in office
					1929	1925–1929
					1929	1925–1928
					1929	1913–1923
				Victoria	1929	1910–1920, 1923–1924
				Victoria	1929	1913–1920, 1923–1935
					1928	1925–1928
				South Australia	1926	1920–1926
				New South Wales	1926	1920–1938
					1929	1917–1947
					1926	1920–1926
				New South Wales	1926	1920–1931
				Victoria	1926	1920–1931
				Victoria	1929	1904–1917, 1923–1929
				Queensland	1929	1917–1947
				Tasmania	1926	1920–1925
				New South Wales	1926	1910–1926, 1928
				New South Wales	1925	1925
				Queensland	1926	1904–1928
				Queensland	1926	1920–1932
				Western Australia	1929	1923–1929
				Tasmania	1925	1925, 1932–1941
				New South Wales	1929	1914–1920, 1923–1928
				Victoria	1926	1920–1938
				Victoria	1925	1924–1925
				Tasmania	1929	1923–1947
				Tasmania	1925, 1929	1923–1947
				South Australia	1929	1922–1935
				Western Australia	1929	1923–1935
				Western Australia	1926	1907–1938
				New South Wales	1925, 1932	1923–1925, 1926–1938
				New South Wales	1929	1910–1920, 1922–1924
				South Australia	1929	1923–1927
				South Australia	1926	1926–1944
				New South Wales	1929	1901–1923
				Tasmania	1926	1920–1938
				Western Australia	1929	1907–1920, 1923–1929
				South Australia	1926	1913–1932
				Tasmania	1929	1923–1932
				South Australia	1929	, 1913–1920, 1923–1925
				Tasmania	1926	1920–1938
				Western Australia	1926	1901–1938
				Victoria	1925, 1932	1917–1923, 1925–1938
				New South Wales	1925	1924–1925
				Queensland	1929	1917–1935
				Victoria	1926	1907–1925
				Tasmania	1926	1925–1938, 1941–1947
				New South Wales	1929	1917–1923, 1925–1929
				Queensland	1926	1922–1932
			FSA/	South Australia	1926	1920–1926

References

• Book: Journals of the Senate. Parliament of Australia. 1925.
• Web site: Members of the Senate since 1901 . Parliamentary Handbook . . 7 December 2008 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080725081044/http://www.aph.gov.au/library/handbook/historical/senate/index.htm . 25 July 2008 . dead .

Notes and References

1. Web site: The Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate 1923 . . 26 February 2017.
2. Web site: Evans, H . Harry Evans (Australian Senate clerk) . Filling Casual Vacancies before 1977 . The Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate, Volume 3 . . 24 February 2017.
3. Psephos Adam Carr's Election Archive, Senate 1925 NSW. Retrieved 17 March 2017.
4. Psephos Adam Carr's Election Archive, Senate 1925 Vic. Retrieved 17 March 2017.