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Electoral District Of Forrest
Forrest was an Electoral districts of Western Australia, electoral district of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly, Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Western Australia from 1904 to 1950. It was based in the South West (Western Australia), South West region of the state, in the timber milling areas near the town of Dwellingup, Western Australia, Dwellingup. From the first time it was contested at the 1904 Western Australian state election, 1904 state election, the district was always a reliable Australian Labor Party (Western Australian Branch), Labor Party seat. Its first member was Albert Wilson (politician), Albert Wilson. He was succeeded at the 1908 Western Australian state election, 1908 state election by Peter O'Loghlen (Australian politician), Peter O'Loghlen. O'Loughlen resigned the seat to contest the federal division of Division of Swan, Swan at the 1913 Australian federal election. The by-election to replace him was won by Labor candidate Thomas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral Districts Of Western Australia
The Western Australian Legislative Assembly is elected from 59 single-member electoral districts. These districts are often referred to as ''electorates'' or ''seats''. The ''Electoral Distribution Act 1947'' requires regular review of electoral boundaries, in order to keep the relative size of electorates within certain limits. Electoral boundaries are determined by the Western Australian Electoral Commission. Electoral districts are subdivisions of electoral regions for the Legislative Council and have approximately an equal number of electors. The last electoral redistribution was completed in November 2019 and was first applied in the 2021 state election. List of electoral districts by electoral region * Agricultural electoral region ** Central Wheatbelt ** Geraldton ** Moore ** Roe * East Metropolitan electoral region ** Armadale ** Bassendean ** Belmont ** Darling Range ** Forrestfield ** Kalamunda ** Maylands ** Midland ** Mirrabooka ** Morley ** Mount Lawle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Moore (Australian Politician)
Thomas James Moore (14 February 1881 – 13 January 1961) was an Australian trade unionist and politician who served in both houses of the Parliament of Western Australia. He was a member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly, Legislative Assembly for less than two months in 1913, in unusual circumstances, and later served in the Western Australian Legislative Council, Legislative Council from 1920 to 1926 and from 1932 to 1946. Moore was born in Knowsley, Victoria, Knowsley, Victoria (Australia), Victoria (near Axedale), to Mary (née Quinn) and Thomas Moore. He came to Western Australia in 1904, and settled in Dwellingup, Western Australia, Dwellingup, where he worked in the timber industry. He had a long-standing involvement with the Timber Workers' Union, and served as its president from 1912 to 1915. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Independent (politician)
An independent or non-partisan politician is a politician not affiliated with any political party or bureaucratic association. There are numerous reasons why someone may stand for office as an independent. Some politicians have political views that do not align with the platforms of any political party, and therefore choose not to affiliate with them. Some independent politicians may be associated with a party, perhaps as former members of it, or else have views that align with it, but choose not to stand in its name, or are unable to do so because the party in question has selected another candidate. Others may belong to or support a political party at the national level but believe they should not formally represent it (and thus be subject to its policies) at another level. In running for public office, independents sometimes choose to form a party or alliance with other independents, and may formally register their party or alliance. Even where the word "independent" is used, s ... [...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] |
Alfred Reynolds (politician)
Alfred George Reynolds (22 May 1894 – 23 April 1976) was an Australian politician. He was the Labor member for Forrest in the Western Australian Legislative Assembly from 1947 to 1950. Born in Milton, Queensland, on 22 May 1894, Reynolds joined the Australian Imperial Forces at the outbreak of the First World War with the regimental service number 62. He joined the 3rd Field Ambulance of the 1st Australian Division and served as a stretcher bearer and batman throughout the war, landing at Gallipoli from before dawn on 25 April 1915 and through the Western Front battles of Fromelles, Mouquet Farm, Ypres, Menin Road and the German counter attacks of Operation Michael and Operation Georgette and finishing with the Battle of Épehy. He arrived back in Sydney Sydney ( ) is the capital city of the state of New South Wales, and the most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Located on Australia's east coast, the metropolis surrounds Sydney Harbour and extends about ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1947 Western Australian State Election
Elections were held in the state of Western Australia on 15 March 1947 to elect all 50 members to the Legislative Assembly. The result was a hung parliament—the four-term Labor government, led by Premier Frank Wise, was defeated with a swing of approximately 7%. The Liberal-Country Coalition won exactly half of the seats, one short of a majority, needed the support of the Independent members Harry Shearn and William Read to govern. The election was the Liberal Party's first major showing since its formation in 1944-1945 out of the former Nationalist Party. Coincidental with this, in 1944, was the significant change in the fortunes of the Country Party when the Primary Producers' Association, of which the Party had been the political wing, passed a motion during negotiations with the Wheatgrowers' Union deleting the rule which authorised the Party's existence and its use of PPA branches and funds for party purposes. A new organisation, was hastily set up by the Opposition Lead ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Holman
Edward Joseph Frederick Holman (9 August 1904 – 26 July 1951) was an Australian politician. He was the son of John Holman (politician), John Holman and Katherine Mary (née Rowe) and the brother of May Holman, the first female Australian Labor Party (Western Australian Branch), Labor MP in Australia. He succeeded his sister as the Labor member for Electoral district of Forrest, Forrest in the Western Australian Legislative Assembly, serving from 1939 to 1947. Holman stood unsuccessfully for the Australian Senate, Senate at the 1934 Australian federal election, 1934 federal election. He was also an unsuccessful candidate for the seat of Electoral district of North Perth, North Perth at the 1936 Western Australian state election, 1936 and 1939 Western Australian state election, 1939 state elections. He died at Royal Perth Hospital on 26 July 1951, aged 47, after collapsing at his home in Nedlands, Western Australia, Nedlands the night before. References 1904 births 1951 ... [...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] |
May Holman
Mary Alice "May" Holman (18 July 1893 – 20 March 1939) was an Australian politician. She was a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and served in the Western Australian Legislative Assembly from 1925 until her death in 1939. She was the first woman to represent the ALP in an Australian legislature and the second woman to serve in the Parliament of Western Australia, after Edith Cowan. Early life Holman was born on 18 July 1893 in Broken Hill, New South Wales. She was the first of eleven children born to Katherine Mary (née Rowe) and John Barkell Holman, who married five months before her birth. Two of her siblings died as infants. Her father was the son of a Cornish miner who had moved to Australia during the Victorian gold rush. He had worked as a miner himself from the age of 14, initially in Bendigo and then in Broken Hill, and was active in the movement for miners' rights. Holman's father moved to Western Australia one week after her birth, working on the Murch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Holman (politician)
John Barkell Holman (26 February 1872 – 23 February 1925) was an Australian politician who served in the Western Australian Legislative Assembly from 1901 to 1921 and 1923 to 1925. Early life Holman was born on 26 February 1872 at Clunes in colonial Victoria, the son of Cornish parents. His father, Edward Holman, was a miner born in 1841 at Gwinear, Cornwall. His mother, Mary Anne ('' née'' Barkell), was born in 1837 at St Austell, Cornwall. He was educated at Bendigo, then worked as a miner, first at Bendigo, where he became a member of the Bendigo Miners' Association in 1886; and later at Broken Hill, New South Wales, where he was involved in the strike of 1892. On 14 February 1893, he married Katherine Mary Row at Broken Hill; they had four sons and six daughters. Western Australia Holman migrated to Western Australia in 1893. He became active in the Labour movement, leading a strike at Day Dawn in 1896, and becoming a workers' advocate before the State Arbitrati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1913 Australian Federal Election
The 1913 Australian federal election was held in Australia on 31 May 1913. All 75 seats in the House of Representatives, and 18 of the 36 seats in the Senate were up for election. The incumbent Labor Party, led by Prime Minister Andrew Fisher, was defeated by the opposition Commonwealth Liberal Party under Joseph Cook. The new government had a majority of just a single seat, and held a minority of seats in the Senate. It would last only 15 months, suffering defeat at the 1914 election. The 1913 election was held in conjunction with six referendum questions, none of which were carried. According to David Day, Andrew Fisher's biographer, "it was probably the timing of the referenda that was most responsible for the disappointing election result" for the Labor Party. Results House of Representatives ---- ;Notes * Three members were elected unopposed – one Liberal and two Labor. Senate Seats changing hands * Members listed in italics did not contest their seat at t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Western Australian Legislative Assembly
The Western Australian Legislative Assembly, or lower house, is one of the two chambers of the Parliament of Western Australia, an Australian state. The Parliament sits in Parliament House in the Western Australian capital, Perth. The Legislative Assembly today has 59 members, elected for four-year terms from single-member electoral districts. Members are elected using the preferential voting system. As with all other Australian states and territories, voting is compulsory for all Australian citizens over the legal voting age of 18. Role and operation Most legislation in Western Australia is initiated in the Legislative Assembly. The party or coalition that can command a majority in the Legislative Assembly is invited by the Governor to form a government. That party or coalition's leader, once sworn in, subsequently becomes the Premier of Western Australia, and a team of the leader's, party's or coalition's choosing (whether they be in the Legislative Assembly or in the Leg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
