This is a list of members of the

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 Legisla ...

between the 1921 election and the 1924 election, together known as the 11th Parliament. During the term, the Country Party split into rival factions, the Ministerial Country Party (MCP) which comprised the bulk of the parliamentary party—many of whom had switched allegiance from other parties since 1919—and the Executive Country Party (ECP), which was loyal to the Primary Producers' Association, which the Country Party was intended to represent in Parliament. After the 1924 election, which significantly strengthened the latter at the expense of the former, the Ministerial arm merged with the Nationalist Party.

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: On 13 April 1921,

Henry Kennedy Maley Henry Kennedy Maley (17 June 1878 – 26 February 1956) was an Australian politician who was a Country Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia from 1917 to 1924 and again from 1929 to 1930. He was the state leader of the ...

, member for Greenough, was appointed by

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Sir James Mitchell as Minister for Agriculture. Maley was therefore required to resign and contest a ministerial by-election, at which he was returned unopposed on 14 May 1921. : On 22 August 1922,

Richard Sampson Richard Sampson (died 25 September 1554) was an English clergyman and composer of sacred music, who was Anglican bishop of Chichester and subsequently of Coventry and Lichfield. Biography He was educated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, the Paris S ...

, member for

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, was appointed by Premier Sir James Mitchell as Colonial Secretary and Minister for Public Health. Sampson was therefore required to resign and contest a ministerial by-election, at which he was returned unopposed on 31 August 1922. : On 1 November 1922, the Nationalist (formerly Labor) member for

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, J. J. Simons, resigned. He subsequently nominated as a candidate for the resulting by-election on 18 November 1922, but was defeated by the Labor candidate,

Thomas Hughes Thomas Hughes (20 October 182222 March 1896) was an English lawyer, judge, politician and author. He is most famous for his novel ''Tom Brown's School Days'' (1857), a semi-autobiographical work set at Rugby School, which Hughes had attended. ...

. : On 14 December 1922, the Independent member for

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, John Boyland, died. Labor candidate James Cunningham won the resulting by-election on 13 January 1923. : On 12 November 1923, the Labor member for Forrest,

Peter O'Loghlen Peter Joseph O'Loghlen (1883 – 25 October 1971) was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician. A publican, he was first elected to Dáil Éireann as a Teachta Dála A Teachta Dála ( , ; plural ), abbreviated as TD (plural ''TDanna'' in Irish, T ...

, died. The Labor candidate, long-serving former Murchison MLA John Holman, won the resulting by-election on 8 December 1923.

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