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South Province (Western Australia)

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South Province was an electoral province of the Legislative Council of Western Australia between 1900 and 1989. It elected three members between 1900 and 1965 and two members between 1965 and 1989.

Members

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Three members (1900–1965)
Member 1 Party Term Member 2 Party Term Member 3 Party Term
  Thomas Brimage None 1900–1906   John Glowrey None 1900–1904   George Bellingham None 1900–1908
    William Oats None 1904–1910  
  John Glowrey None 1906–1910    
      Sir John Kirwan None 1908–1910
  Independent 1910–1912   Jabez Dodd Labor 1910–1917   Independent 1910–1946
  James Cornell Labor 1912–1917    
  Nat. Labor 1917–1924   Nat. Labor 1917–1924  
  Nationalist 1924–1945   Nationalist 1924–1928  
    George Rainsford Nationalist 1928  
    Charles Williams Labor 1928–1948  
  Liberal 1945–1946    
      George Bennetts Labor 1946–1950
  Robert Boylen Labor 1947–1950    
    John Cunningham Liberal 1948–1950  
Major reconstitution in 1950 – existing South Province members effectively swapped with existing South-East Province members.
  Jack Thomson Country 1950–1965   Hugh Roche Country 1950–1960   Anthony Loton Country 1950–1965
    Sydney Thompson Country 1960–1965  

Two members (1965–1989)
Member 1 Party Term Member 2 Party Term
  Edward House Country 1965–1971   Jack Thomson Country 1965–1974
  David Wordsworth Liberal 1971–1989  
    Thomas Knight Liberal 1974–1986
    John Caldwell National 1986–1989

References

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