Central Province (Western Australia)

Central Province was an electoral province of the Legislative Council of Western Australia between 1894 and 1989. It elected three members between 1894 and 1965 and two members between 1965 and 1989.

Members

Three members (1894–1965)
Member 1		Party	Term	Member 2		Party	Term	Member 3		Party	Term
	Edward Wittenoom	None	1894–1898		Ernest Henty	None	1894–1895		Hugh McKernan	None	1894–1896
					William Alexander	None	1895–1898
									Richard Haynes	None	1896–1902
	William Loton	None	1898–1900		Frederic Whitcombe	None	1898–1900
	John Drew	None	1900–1910
					Con O'Brien	Labor	1901–1904
									Joseph Thomson	None	1902–1908
					William Patrick	None	1904–1910
									Con O'Brien	Labor	1908–1914
		Labor	1910–1918			Liberal	1910–1914
						Country	1914–1916		Henry Carson	Country	1914–1920
					James Hickey	Labor	1916–1928
	Joshua Mills	Ind. Nat.	1918–1923
									Thomas Moore	Labor	1920–1926
		Country	1923–1924
		Nationalist	1924
	John Drew	Labor	1924–1947
									George Kempton	Country	1926–1932
					Edmund Hall	Country	1928–1947
									Thomas Moore	Labor	1932–1946
									Charles Simpson	Liberal	1946–1950
					Les Logan	Country	1947–1950
	Harold Daffen	Liberal	1947–1950
Major reconstitution in 1950 – existing East Province effectively renamed Central Province and existing Central Province effectively renamed Midland Province.
	Garnet Wood	Country	1950–1952		Charles Latham	Country	1950–1960		Norm Baxter	Country	1950–1958
	Leslie Diver	Country	1952–1965
									Charles Abbey	Liberal	1958–1965
					Norm Baxter	None	1960–1965

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Two members (1965–1989)
Member 1		Party	Term	Member 2		Party	Term
	Leslie Diver	Country	1965–1971		Norm Baxter	Country	1965–1983
	Harry Gayfer	Nat. Country	1974–1985
					Gordon Atkinson	Liberal	1983–1984
					Eric Charlton	National (WA)	1984–1985
		National	1985–1989			National	1985–1989

References

• David Black (2014), The Western Australian Parliamentary Handbook (Twenty-Third Edition), pp. 221–222, 225