Members of the Victorian Legislative Council, 1934–1937
# Members of the Victorian Legislative Council, 1934–1937

This is a list of members of the Victorian Legislative Council between 1934 and 1937. As half of the Legislative Council's terms expired at each triennial election, half of these members were elected at the 1931 triennial election with terms expiring in 1937, while the other half were elected at the 1934 triennial election with terms expiring in 1940.

| Name | Party | Province | Term expires | Term of office |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| William Angliss | United Australia | Southern | 1940 | 1912–1952 |
| James Miller Balfour | Country | Gippsland | 1940 | 1936–1943 |
| Edwin Bath | United Australia | Nelson | 1937 | 1922–1937 |
| William Beckett | Labor | Melbourne East | 1940 | 1914–1931; 1934–1952 |
| George Bolster | United Australia | Wellington | 1940 | 1934–1946 |
| Alfred Chandler | United Australia | South Eastern | 1937 | 1919–1935 |
| Gilbert Chandler | United Australia | South Eastern | 1937 | 1935–1973 |
| Hon. Sir Frank Clarke | United Australia | Melbourne South | 1937 | 1913–1955 |
| Russell Clarke | United Australia | Southern | 1937 | 1910–1937 |
| Harold Cohen | United Australia | Melbourne South | 1940 | 1929–1935 |
| Henry Cohen | United Australia | Melbourne | 1937 | 1921–1937 |
| Archibald Crofts | United Australia | Melbourne South | 1940 | 1935–1942 |
| Alan Currie | United Australia | Nelson | 1940 | 1928–1940 |
| George Martley Davis | United Australia | Gippsland | 1937 | 1917–1937 |
| Arthur Disney | Labor | Melbourne West | 1937 | 1916–1943 |
| Clifden Eager | United Australia | East Yarra | 1940 | 1930–1958 |
| Hon. William Edgar | United Australia | East Yarra | 1937 | 1904–1913; 1917–1948 |
| Hon. George Goudie | Country | North Western | 1937 | 1919–1949 |
| Hon. John Harris | Country | North Eastern | 1940 | 1920–1946 |
| Percival Inchbold | Country | North Eastern | 1937 | 1935–1953 |
| Hon. John Percy Jones | United Australia | South Western | 1940 | 1910–1940 |
| Herbert Keck | United Australia | Bendigo | 1937 | 1921–1937 |
| Esmond Kiernan | Independent | Melbourne North | 1940 | 1919–1940 |
| Richard Kilpatrick | Country | Northern | 1940 | 1928–1946 |
| Lt. Col. George Lansell | United Australia | Bendigo | 1940 | 1928–1952 |
| Gordon McArthur | United Australia | South Western | 1937 | 1931–1965 |
| Martin McGregor | United Australia | Gippsland | 1940 | 1922–1936 |
| Daniel McNamara | Labor | Melbourne East | 1937 | 1916; 1917–1947 |
| Herbert Olney | United Australia | Melbourne North | 1937 | 1931–1943 |
| Alfred Pittard | United Australia | Wellington | 1937 | 1931–1949 |
| Hon. Henry Pye | Country | North Western | 1940 | 1932–1942 |
| Marcus Saltau | United Australia | Western | 1940 | 1924–1940 |
| Herbert Smith | United Australia | Melbourne | 1940 | 1921–1935 |
| Hon. George Tuckett | Country | Northern | 1937 | 1925–1955 |
| William Tyner | United Australia | South Eastern | 1940 | 1922–1940 |
| George Wales | United Australia | Melbourne | 1940 | 1936–1938 |
| Hon. Robert Williams | Independent | Melbourne West | 1940 | 1922–1938 |
| William Williamson | Ind. Country | Western | 1937 | 1931–1937 |
| Albert Zwar | Country | North Eastern | 1937 | 1922–1935 |

    $^1$ On 12 February 1935, Alfred Chandler, UAP MLC for South Eastern Province, died. His son, UAP candidate Gilbert Chandler, won the resulting by-election in March 1935.
    $^2$ On 23 February 1935, Albert Zwar, Country MLC for North Eastern Province, died. Country candidate Percival Inchbold won the resulting by-election in April 1935.
    $^3$ On 25 November 1935, Herbert Smith, UAP MLC for Melbourne Province, died. UAP candidate George Wales won the resulting by-election in May 1936.
    $^4$ In February 1935, Harold Cohen, UAP MLC for Melbourne South Province, resigned to contest Caulfield in the 1935 Assembly election. UAP candidate Archibald Crofts won the resulting by-election in March 1935.
    $^5$ On 17 August 1936, Martin McGregor, UAP MLC for Gippsland Province, died. Country candidate James Miller Balfour won the resulting by-election in October 1936.

## Sources

* Re-member (a database of all Victorian MPs since 1851). Parliament of Victoria.
* Victoria Parliamentary Debates (Hansard), Session 1935 (PDF). Vol. 196. Melbourne: H. J. Green. 1936.
