Members of the South Australian Legislative Council, 1930–1933

This is a list of members of the South Australian Legislative Council from 1930 to 1933.

Name District Party Term expiry Time in office Joseph Anderson Central No. 1 Independent 1938 1931–1944 Percy Blesing Northern Country Party/LCL 1933 1924–1949 Frank Condon Central No. 1 Labor 1938 1928–1961 John Herbert Cooke Central No. 2 Liberal Federation/LCL 1933 1915–1933 John Cowan Southern Liberal Federation/LCL 1938 1910–1944 Walter Gordon Duncan Midland Liberal Federation/LCL 1938 1918–1962 Tom Gluyas Central No. 1 Labor 1938 1918–1931 Sir David Gordon Midland Liberal Federation/LCL 1938 1913–1944 Walter Hannaford Midland Liberal Federation/LCL 1933 1912–1941 William Humphrey Harvey Central No. 2 Liberal Federation/LCL 1938 1915–1935 James Jelley Central No. 1 Labor/PLP 1933 1912–1933 Thomas McCallum Southern Liberal Federation/LCL 1933 1920–1938 William George Mills Northern Country Party/LCL 1933 1918–1933 William Morrow Northern Liberal Federation/LCL 1938 1915–1934 Reuben Cranstoun Mowbray Southern LCL 1938 1932–1938 Thomas Pascoe Midland Liberal Federation/LCL 1933 1900–1933 George Henry Prosser Central No. 2 Liberal Federation/LCL 1933 1921–1933 George Ritchie Northern Liberal Federation/LCL 1938 1924–1944 Sir Lancelot Stirling Southern Liberal Federation/LCL 1938 1891–1932 Henry Tassie Central No. 2 Liberal Federation/LCL 1938 1918–1938 Stanley Whitford Central No. 1 Labor/PLP 1933 1929–1941 Harry Dove Young Southern Liberal Federation/LCL 1933 1927–1941

The Australian Labor Party split in August 1931 over the Cabinet's support for the Premiers' Plan as a response to the Great Depression. The state conference of the party expelled all 23 Labor MPs who had voted for the plan, including two of their four MLCs - James Jelley and Stanley Whitford. Jelley and Whitford both joined their expelled House of Assembly colleagues in forming the separate Parliamentary Labor Party. The two remaining MLCs, Frank Condon and Tom Gluyas, remained in the official Labor Party. Labor MLC Tom Gluyas died on 3 September 1931. Independent candidate Joseph Anderson won the resulting by-election on 24 October. LCL MLC Sir Lancelot Stirling died on 24 May 1932. Reuben Cranstoun Mowbray was elected unopposed to the vacancy on 17 June. The two conservative parties, the Liberal Federation and the state branch of the Country Party, merged to create the new Liberal and Country League on 9 June 1932.

References Parliament of South Australia — Statistical Record of the Legislature