1960 Western Australian Legislative Council Election
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Elections were held in the
Australian state The states and territories are federated administrative divisions in Australia, ruled by regional governments that constitute the second level of governance between the federal government and local governments. States are self-governing ...
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Western Australia Western Australia (commonly abbreviated as WA) is a state of Australia occupying the western percent of the land area of Australia excluding external territories. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Southern Ocean to th ...
on 30 April 1960 to elect 10 of the 30 members of the state's Legislative Council.


Results


Legislative Council


Retiring Members


Country

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Charles Latham Sir Charles George Latham (26 January 1882 – 26 August 1968), often shortened to simply C. G. Latham, was an Australian politician, former leader of the opposition in Western Australia and the 10th President of the Western Australian Legislat ...
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Hugh Roche Hugh Lewis Roche (5 November 1893 – 15 July 1962) was an Australian politician who served as a Country Party member of the Legislative Council of Western Australia from 1940 to 1960. Roche was born in York, Western Australia, to Maria Jose ...
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Candidates


Election results


Central


Metropolitan


Midland


North


North-East

* Preferences were not distributed.


South


South-East

* Preferences were not distributed.


South-West


Suburban


West


See also

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Members of the Western Australian Legislative Council, 1960–1962 This is a list of members of the Western Australian Legislative Council from 22 May 1960 to 21 May 1962. The chamber had 30 seats made up of ten provinces each electing three members, on a system of rotation whereby one-third of the members would ...


References

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