Members of the Western Australian Legislative Council, 1965–1968 explained

This is a list of members of the Western Australian Legislative Council from 22 May 1965 to 21 May 1968.

The term was the first to be conducted under the Constitution Acts Amendment Act (No.2) 1963 (No.72 of 1963), which abolished the 10 three-member provinces which had existed almost unaltered since 1900 and replaced them with 15 new two-member provinces, while abolishing the practice of having separate Legislative Council elections in May of every even-numbered year. Hence, members whose terms expired on 21 May 1971 were elected at the 1965 state general election.

The chamber as a result had 30 seats made up of 15 provinces each electing two members, on a system of rotation whereby one-half of the members would retire every three years.

Name	Party	Province	Term expires	Years in office
			1971	1958–1977
			1971	1950–1958; 1960–1983
	Liberal		1971	1965–1971
	Country		1968	1952–1974
			1968	1963–1974
	Liberal		1971	1965–1987
	Labor		1971	1954–1971
	Liberal		1971	1953–1977
	Liberal		1971	1965–1997
	Labor		1968	1936–1968
	Country		1971	1963–1977
	Liberal		1971	1941–1971
	Country		1971	1965–1971
	Labor		1971	1954–1971
	Country		1968	1950–1967
	Labor		1971	1952–1971
	Country		1968	1947–1974
	Liberal		1968	1956–1986
	Liberal		1971	1965–1983
	Country		1971	1965–1977
	Liberal		1968	1962–1968
	Labor		1968	1950–1970
	Labor		1968	1962–1980
	Labor		1968	1959–1980
	Country		1968	1960–1974
	Country		1968	1950–1974
	Liberal		1968	1948–1968
	Country		1968	1967–1973
	Labor		1968	1954–1974
	Liberal		1968	1955–1974
			1971	1956–1971

Notes

On 3 September 1967, West Province (formerly Midland Province) Country MLC Ray Jones died. Country Party candidate Fred White won the resulting by-election on 21 October 1967.

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. (especially p. 6)
• 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.