title: Members of the Western Australian Legislative Council, 1896–1898
text: # Members of the Western Australian Legislative Council, 1896–1898
  
  This is a list of members of the Western Australian Legislative Council from 27 July 1896 to 9 May 1898. The chamber had 21 seats made up of seven provinces each electing three members, on a system of rotation whereby one-third of the members would retire at each biennial election. The Constitution Act Amendment Act 1896, which passed after the 1896 Council election, created a new seat of North-East Province, which had its inaugural election on 29 June 1897 with terms expiring in 1904, 1902 and 1900.
  
  | Name | Province | Term expires | Years in office |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | William Alexander | Central | 1898 | 1895–1898 |
  | Henry Briggs | West | 1898 | 1896–1919 |
  | R. G. Burges | East | 1898 | 1894–1903 |
  | Daniel Keen Congdon | West | 1900 | 1887–1890; 1892–1900 |
  | Frederick Crowder | South-East | 1900 | 1894–1900; 1901–1902 |
  | Charles Dempster | East | 1900 | 1873–1874; 1894–1907 |
  | John Winthrop Hackett | South-West | 1900 | 1890–1916 |
  | Richard Septimus Haynes | Central | 1902 | 1896–1902 |
  | Samuel Johnson Haynes | South-East | 1898 | 1894–1910 |
  | Andrew Henning | North-East | 1898 | 1897–1898 |
  | Alfred Kidson | West | 1902 | 1895–1902 |
  | Donald McDonald MacKay | North | 1902 | 1896–1902 |
  | Edward McLarty | South-West | 1898 | 1894–1916 |
  | Alexander Matheson | North-East | 1902 | 1897–1901 |
  | Stephen Henry Parker | Metropolitan | 1898 | 1878–1888; 1889–1890; 1892–1897 |
  | Harold Parsons | North-East | 1900 | 1897–1900 |
  | Charles Piesse | South-East | 1902 | 1894–1914 |
  | George Randell | Metropolitan | 1898 | 1875–1878; 1880–1890; 1893–1894; 1897–1910 |
  | John Richardson | North | 1898 | 1894–1904 |
  | Henry Saunders | Metropolitan | 1902 | 1894–1902; 1918–1919 |
  | Sir George Shenton | Metropolitan | 1900 | 1870–1873; 1875–1906 |
  | William Spencer | South-West | 1902 | 1896–1901 |
  | Frank Stone | North | 1900 | 1894–1906 |
  | John Howard Taylor | East | 1902 | 1896–1899 |
  | Edward Wittenoom | Central | 1900 | 1883–1884; 1885–1886; 1894–1898; 1902–1906; 1910–1934 |
  