This is a list of members of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly between the 1914 election and the 1917 election, together known as the Ninth Parliament. The re-election of Premier John Scaddan's Labor Government with a 26-24 majority in 1914 was tempered when, a year later, Labor member Joseph Gardiner's seat was declared vacant on account of his non-attendance and a Liberal was elected in his stead, and Labor became a minority government when on 18 December 1915, Edward Johnston resigned from the Labor Party and became an independent. On 27 July 1916, the Scaddan Ministry was defeated and the Liberals' Frank Wilson became the new Premier.
In March 1917, the Labor Party split ahead of the 1917 federal election. The federal party had split a year earlier over military conscription, and in Western Australia, where conscription was widely supported, all of the Labor Senators up for election had joined Billy Hughes's Nationalist Party. A number of state Labor members, including former Premier John Scaddan, either resigned from the Party or were expelled for supporting them. By May 1917, they had formed a new National Labor Party with a base in the Goldfields region, historically the heart of the Labor vote in Western Australia. In June 1917, they formed a coalition with the new Nationalist Party (which replaced the former Liberal Party) and the Country Party to form a governing coalition. With these arrangements, another Ministry was formed under new Premier Henry Lefroy.
Name | Party | District | Years in office |
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Eben Allen | Liberal | West Perth | 1911β1917 |
Hon William Angwin [1] | Labor | North-East Fremantle | 1904β1905; 1906β1927 |
Harry Bolton | Labor/ Nat. Lab. | South Fremantle | 1904β1917 |
William Butcher [2] | Liberal | Roebourne | 1901β1911; 1915β1917 |
William Carpenter | Labor/Nat. Lab. | Fremantle | 1911β1917 |
Thomas Chesson | Labor | Cue | 1913β1930 |
Hon Philip Collier | Labor | Boulder | 1905β1948 |
Sir James Connolly [9] | Liberal | Perth | 1914β1917 |
John Cunningham | Country | Greenough | 1914β1917 |
Samuel Elliott [7] | Liberal | Geraldton | 1913β1914; 1917 |
George Foley | Labor/Nat. Lab. | Mount Leonora | 1911β1920 |
Hon James Gardiner [8] | Country | Irwin | 1901β1904; 1914β1921 |
Hon Joseph Gardiner [2] | Labor | Roebourne | 1911β1915 |
Hon William James George [4] | Liberal | Murray-Wellington | 1895β1902; 1909β1930 |
Archibald Gilchrist | Liberal | Gascoyne | 1914β1917 |
Albert Green | Labor | Kalgoorlie | 1911β1913; 1914β1921 |
Harry Griffiths | Country | York | 1914β1921; 1924β1935 |
John Hardwick | Liberal | East Perth | 1904β1911; 1914β1921 |
Tom Harrison | Country | Avon | 1914β1924 |
Edward Heitmann [7] | Labor/Nat. Lab. | Geraldton | 1904β1913; 1914β1917 |
Henry Hickmott | Country | Pingelly | 1914β1924 |
John Holman | Labor | Murchison | 1901β1921; 1923β1925 |
Hon Charles Hudson [10] | Labor/Nat. Lab. | Yilgarn | 1905β1921 |
Hon William Johnson | Labor | Guildford | 1901β1905; 1906β1917; 1924β1948 |
Edward Johnston [3] | Labor/Independent/ Country |
Williams-Narrogin | 1911β1928 |
George Lambert [6] | Labor | Coolgardie | 1916β1930; 1933β1941 |
Hon Sir Henry Lefroy [4] | Liberal | Moore | 1892β1901; 1911β1921 |
John Lutey [5] [8] | Labor | Brownhill-Ivanhoe | 1916; 1917β1932 |
Arthur Male | Liberal | Kimberley | 1905β1917 |
Charles McDowall [6] | Labor | Coolgardie | 1908β1916 |
Hon James Mitchell [4] | Liberal | Northam | 1905β1933 |
John Mullany | Labor/Nat. Lib. | Menzies | 1911β1924 |
Selby Munsie | Labor | Hannans | 1911β1938 |
William Ralph Nairn | Liberal | Swan | 1914β1921 |
Peter O'Loghlen | Labor | Forrest | 1908β1923 |
Alfred Piesse | Country | Toodyay | 1911β1924 |
Robert Pilkington [9] | Nat. Lib. | Perth | 1917β1921 |
William Price | Labor/Nat. Lab. | Albany | 1909β1917 |
Hon Robert Robinson [4] | Liberal | Canning | 1914β1921 |
Hon John Scaddan [5] [8] | Labor/Nat. Lab. | Brownhill-Ivanhoe | 1904β1917; 1919β1924; 1930β1933 |
James MacCallum Smith | Liberal | North Perth | 1914β1939 |
Bartholomew James Stubbs | Labor | Subiaco | 1911β1917 |
Sydney Stubbs | Liberal/Country | Wagin | 1911β1947 |
George Taylor | Labor/Nat. Lab. | Mount Margaret | 1901β1930 |
William Lemen Thomas | Labor/Nat. Lab. | Bunbury | 1911β1917 |
Alec Thomson | Liberal/Country | Katanning | 1914β1930 |
Hon Michael Troy | Labor | Mount Magnet | 1904β1939 |
Hon Henry Underwood | Labor/Nat. Lib. | Pilbara | 1906β1924 |
John Veryard | Liberal | Leederville | 1905β1908; 1914β1921 |
Hon Thomas Walker | Labor | Kanowna | 1905β1932 |
Charles Wansbrough | Country | Beverley | 1914β1917; 1924β1930 |
Hon Francis Willmott | Country | Nelson | 1914β1921 |
Arthur Wilson | Labor | Collie | 1908β1947 |
Hon Frank Wilson [4] | Liberal | Sussex | 1897β1901; 1904β1917 |
Evan Wisdom | Liberal | Claremont | 1911β1917 |