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Electoral Results For The District Of East Perth
This is a list of electoral results for the Electoral district of East Perth in Western Australian state elections. Members for East Perth Election results Elections in the 1950s Elections in the 1940s * Preferences were not distributed. * Preferences were not distributed. Elections in the 1930s * This by-election was caused by the sitting member Thomas Hughes being declared bankrupt, and had to resign his seat. He settled his finances and was able to re-contest the seat in the by-election. * Preferences were not distributed. Elections in the 1920s * Preferences were not distributed. * This by-election was caused by the resignation of sitting member Jack Simons after he changed to the Nationalists Nationalism is an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral District Of East Perth
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East Perth was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Western Australia from 1890 to 1962. Based in inner urban Perth, the district was one of the original 30 seats contested at the 1890 election. The district's member from 1894 to 1904 was Walter James, who served as Premier of Western Australia from 1902 to 1904. When the district was abolished at the 1962 election, its member at the time, Herb Graham of the Labor Party, transferred to the new seat of Balcatta. Members Election results East Perth East or Orient is one of the four cardinal directions or points of the compass. It is the opposite direction from west and is the direction from which the Sunrise, Sun rises on the Earth. Etymology As in other languages, the word is formed from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1950 Western Australian State Election
Elections were held in the state of Western Australia on 25 March 1950 to elect all 50 members to the Legislative Assembly. The Liberal-Country coalition government, led by Premier Ross McLarty, won a second term in office against the Labor Party, led by Opposition Leader Frank Wise Frank Joseph Scott Wise AO (30 May 1897 – 29 June 1986) was a Labor Party politician who was the 16th Premier of Western Australia. He took office on 31 July 1945 in the closing stages of the Second World War, following the resignation of .... The election took place after a major redistribution. Key dates Results : 306,099 electors were enrolled to vote at the election, but 12 seats (24% of the total) were uncontested—6 Labor seats (9 less than 1947) representing 26,694 enrolled voters, 2 Liberal seats (the same as 1947) representing 13,278 enrolled voters, and 4 Country seats (two more than 1947) representing 18,538 enrolled voters. This change in distribution means that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1922 East Perth State By-election
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1924 Western Australian State Election
Elections were held in the state of Western Australia on 22 March 1924 to elect all 50 members to the Legislative Assembly. The incumbent Nationalist- Majority Country government, led by Premier James Mitchell, was defeated by the Labor Party opposition, led by Opposition Leader Philip Collier Philip Collier (21 April 1873 – 18 October 1948) was an Australian politician who served as the 14th Premier of Western Australia from 1924 to 1930 and from 1933 to 1936. He was leader of the Labor Party from 1917 to 1936, and is Western Au .... Results : 189,869 electors were enrolled to vote at the election, but 12 of the 50 seats were uncontested, with 30,513 electors enrolled in those seats. Of these, 11 were held by Labor and 1 was held by the Nationalists. * The Country Party had split in 1923 into Majority and Executive factions. The Majority faction supported the Nationalist party government, while the Executive faction sought a more independent way for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1927 Western Australian State Election
Elections were held in the state of Western Australia on 26 March 1927 to elect all 50 members to the Legislative Assembly. The incumbent Labor Party government, led by Premier Philip Collier, won a second term in government against the United-Country opposition, led by Opposition Leader The Leader of the Opposition is a title traditionally held by the leader of the largest political party not in government, typical in countries utilizing the parliamentary system form of government. The leader of the opposition is typically se ... James Mitchell. Results : 210,949 electors were enrolled to vote at the election, but 9 of the 50 seats were uncontested, with 16,862 electors enrolled in those seats. All 9 of these seats were held by Labor. * The United Party operated as a combination of the Nationalist Party and the Majority Country Party from the previous election. In 1923, the Country Party had split into Majority and Executive factions. See also * Memb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1930 Western Australian State Election
Elections were held in the state of Western Australia on 12 April 1930 to elect all 50 members to the Legislative Assembly. The incumbent Labor Party government, led by Premier Philip Collier, was defeated by the Nationalist-Country opposition, led by Opposition Leader The Leader of the Opposition is a title traditionally held by the leader of the largest political party not in government, typical in countries utilizing the parliamentary system form of government. The leader of the opposition is typically se ... James Mitchell. Results : 230,076 electors were enrolled to vote at the election, but 11 of the 50 seats were uncontested, with 43,344 electors enrolled in those seats. See also * Members of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly, 1927–1930 * Members of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly, 1930–1933 * First Collier Ministry * Second Mitchell Ministry References {{Western Australian elections Elections in Western Australia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1933 Western Australian State Election
Elections were held in the state of Western Australia on 8 April 1933 to elect all 50 members to the Legislative Assembly. The one-term Nationalist-Country coalition government, led by Premier Sir James Mitchell, was defeated by the Labor Party, led by Opposition Leader Philip Collier. The election occurred at the height of the Great Depression, and was notable for four reasons. Firstly, it is, to date, the only Western Australian election at which a sitting Premier has been defeated in his own seat, with Sir James Mitchell losing his Northam seat to Albert Hawke. It has also been the only election (apart from the ministerial by-elections in December 1901) where over half a Ministry have been defeated at an election—apart from Mitchell, Hubert Parker, John Scaddan and John Lindsay all lost their parliamentary seats. Secondly, three future Premiers, Frank Wise (1943–1945), Albert Hawke (1953–1959) and John Tonkin (1971–1974), were elected to Parliament on the same ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1936 Western Australian State Election
Elections were held in the state of Western Australia on 15 February 1936 to elect all 50 members to the Legislative Assembly. The Labor Party, led by Premier Philip Collier, won a second term in office against the Country and Nationalist parties, led by Opposition Leader Charles Latham and Norbert Keenan respectively. The only member to retire at the election was Labor member for Kalgoorlie James Cunningham, who transferred to the Australian Senate the following year. Results At the election, 5 sitting members (four Labor and one Nationalist) were defeated—three of them by independents. In Maylands, one-term MLA Robert Clothier (Labor) was defeated by independent Nationalist Harry Shearn, who won with preferences from two endorsed nationalists. In East Perth, Minister for Employment and Labour James Kenneally was defeated by former Labor member Thomas Hughes, and the Nationalist member for Nelson, John Henry Smith, was defeated by independent Clarence Doust. The remain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1936 East Perth State By-election
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Herbert Wells (politician)
Herbert Edward Wells (9 October 1872 – 9 November 1960) was an Australian politician who was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia from 1930 to 1933, representing the seat of Canning. He was a perennial candidate, standing for parliament unsuccessfully on another six occasions. Early life Wells was born in Ballarat, Victoria, to Mary (née Murray) and James Wells. He arrived in Western Australia in 1895 and subsequently lived for periods in Fremantle, Coolgardie, and Leonora. He moved to Collie in 1899, where he worked as a bootmaker and later as an auctioneer. Wells was soon elected to both of the local government bodies in the area – to the Collie Road Board in 1900 and to the Collie Municipal Council in 1901. He chaired the road board for a period, and was mayor of Collie from 1908 to 1909 and again from 1911 to 1913. Wells enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force in 1916 and served as an officer in the 44th and 63rd Battalions during the w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1939 Western Australian State Election
Elections were held in the state of Western Australia on 18 March 1939 to elect all 50 members to the Legislative Assembly. The Labor Party, led by Premier John Willcock, won a third term in office against the Country and Nationalist parties, led by Opposition Leader Charles Latham and Robert Ross McDonald respectively. Results The election was notable for the lack of change to the status quo. Only one member—former Speaker Michael Troy, who had been in the Assembly continuously since 1904—opted to retire, being replaced in his seat of Mount Magnet by fellow Labor member Lucien Triat. Labor's Bill Hegney gained the seat of Pilbara from two-term Nationalist MLA Frank Welsh, whilst the Nationalist member since 1914 for North Perth, James MacCallum Smith, was defeated by independent Nationalist Arthur Abbott (who joined the party some years later). Elsewhere, the only change was the exit of one Independent member—Clarence Doust in Nelson, who was defeated by his National ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1943 East Perth State By-election
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