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Elections were held in the
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of
Western Australia Western Australia (WA) is the westernmost state of Australia. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Southern Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east, and South Australia to the south-east. Western Aust ...
between 27 April and 26 May 1897 to elect 44 members to 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, Perth, Parliament House in the Western Australian capi ...
. The Ministerialist group led by
John Forrest Sir John Forrest (22 August 1847 – 2 SeptemberSome sources give the date as 3 September 1918 1918) was an Australian explorer and politician. He was the first premier of Western Australia (1890–1901) and a long-serving cabinet minister in ...
won a third term in office as a result of the elections. The poll took place based on boundaries established in the ''Constitution Act Amendment Act 1896'', which increased the number of members from 33 mainly by adding new seats in the Goldfields region, and had been called a year earlier than was necessary. In 18 of the 44 seats, only one candidate nominated and polls were not held. As payment of members was not introduced until 1900, the Political Labour Party, formed in 1896, had found it difficult to attract candidates who could afford to enter Parliament, but three of its candidates ran for election, and Charles Oldham, a former president of the Trades and Labor Council, became the first Labour member of Parliament in Western Australia.


Results

Notes: : The Ministerialists' total of 29 seats includes 16 which were uncontested, representing 4,297 of the 23,318 enrolled voters. A further two seats, won by
George Leake George Leake (3 December 1856 – 24 June 1902) was the third Premier of Western Australia, serving from May to November 1901 and then again from December 1901 to his death. Leake was born in Perth, into a prominent local family. Studying la ...
( Albany, Oppositionist) and Elias Solomon ( South Fremantle, Independent) representing 1,907 enrolled voters were also uncontested.


See also

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Members of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly, 1894–1897 This is a list of members of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly between the 1894 Western Australian colonial election, 1894 elections and the 1897 Western Australian colonial election, 1897 elections, together known as the Second Parliam ...
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Members of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly, 1897–1901 The following is a list of members of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly between the 1897 Western Australian colonial election, 1897 elections and the 1901 Western Australian state election, 1901 elections, together known as the Third Pa ...


References

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