Members of the Western Australian Legislative Council, 1968–1971
September 02, 2023
This is a list of members of the Western Australian Legislative Council from 22 May 1968 to 21 May 1971. The chamber 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 at each triennial election.
2 Three retiring MLCs died in the period leading to the 1971 election, and their positions were not filled. These were Labor members Frederick Lavery (12 January 1971) and Jim Garrigan (5 April 1971), and Country Party member Edward House (1 January 1971).
SourcesEdit
Black, David (1991). Legislative Council of Western Australia : membership register, electoral law and statistics, 1890-1989. Perth: Parliamentary History Project. ISBN0-7309-3641-4.
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