Members of the Western Australian Legislative Council, 1950–1952 explained

This is a list of members of the Western Australian Legislative Council from 22 May 1950 to 21 May 1952. 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.

Several of the provinces were renamed at the election. The Electoral Districts Act 1947 had obviated the need for Parliament to redistribute seats itself, instead appointing three Electoral Commissioners who were to review the boundaries according to certain defined criteria. The redistribution was gazetted on 21 December 1948, but did not come into effect until 22 May 1950.

The changes of names were as follows:

• Central Province → Midland Province
• East Province → Central Province
• Metropolitan-Suburban Province → Suburban Province
• South Province → South-East Province
• South-East Province → South Province

Name	Party	Province	Term expires	Years in office
			1952	1914–1950
			1952	1950–1958; 1960–1983
			1952	1946–1965
	Labor		1956	1947–1955
			1956	1934–1956
	Liberal		1948	1948–1954; 1955–1962
	Labor		1956	1947–1963
	Liberal		1952	1938–1953
	Country		1956	1952–1974
	Liberal		1952	1946–1952
	Labor		1954	1928–1958
	Liberal		1956	1942–1956
	Labor		1952	1923–1952
	Labor		1952	1938–1963
	Liberal		1954	1948–1956
	Labor		1956	1936–1968
	Liberal		1954	1951–1955
	Liberal		1952	1941–1971
	Country		1956	1950–1967
	Country		1954	1946–1960
	Country		1954	1947–1974
	Country		1952	1944–1965
	Liberal		1952	1926–1951
	Liberal		1952	1951–1965
	Liberal		1954	1934–1954
	Country		1954	1940–1960
	Liberal		1954	1922–1954
	Liberal		1952	1946–1963
	Labor		1956	1950–1970
	Country		1956	1950–1974
	Liberal		1954	1934–1951
	Liberal		1956	1948–1968
	Liberal		1954	1940–1954
	Country		1956	1936–1952

Notes

On 2 March 1950, Central (formerly East) Province Country MLC Charles Baxter died. His son Norm Baxter won the resulting by-election on 6 May 1950.

On 10 March 1951, South-West Province Liberal MLC Hobart Tuckey died. Liberal candidate Charles Henning won the resulting by-election on 2 June 1951.

On 22 April 1951, South-West Province Liberal MLC William Mann died. Liberal candidate James Murray won the resulting by-election on 2 June 1951.

On 3 January 1952, Central (formerly East) Province Country MLC Garnet Barrington Wood died. Country Party candidate Leslie Diver won the resulting by-election on 3 May 1952.

Sources

• Book: Black, David. Legislative Council of Western Australia : membership register, electoral law and statistics, 1890-1989. 1991. Parliamentary History Project. Perth. 0-7309-3641-4.
• Book: Hughes, Colin A.. Colin Hughes

. Colin Hughes. Aitkin, Don. Voting for the Australian State Upper Houses, 1890-1984. 1986. Australian National University. Canberra. 0-909779-18-X.