This is the full list of members who served in the Second House of Representatives from 1903 until 1906.
All six states elected representatives from single-member electorates at this election. In 1901, South Australia and Tasmania elected its representatives “at large” from the whole state. The seven South Australian and five Tasmanian seats established in 1903 are counted as Federation Seats.
In a 75-member chamber, no party secured an absolute majority of seats. The Labor, Protectionist and Free Trade parties were almost evenly divided. Official figures have the ALP with 23 seats, Free Traders 25, Protectionists 26, with one independent.
The following table lists 78 members who served in the second House of Representatives, 75 elected at the general election in 1903, plus three who entered via by-elections in 1904.
Seventeen members (23% of the total) were elected unopposed, the largest single number in any federal election before or since. They included 10 Protectionists, 4 Free Traders, 2 ALP and 1 independent.
The ALP is shown with 25 members. In Capricornia, the independent Labour candidate James Wilkinson joined the ALP in 1904. Similarly, Alexander Poynton won Grey as a Free Trader in 1901 but pledged his support to the ALP in 1902. The list includes William Maloney, who won the Melbourne by-election for the ALP in 1904, succeeding Sir Malcolm McEachern, whose 1903 election was voided.
The Protectionists are shown with 27 members. This includes John Chanter, who won the Riverina by-election in 1904, defeating the former Free Trade member Robert Blackwood, whose five-vote victory in 1903 was voided following a challenge.
The Free Traders are shown with 25 members. This includes the future leader of the Country Party, William McWilliams, who was elected to Franklin from the Revenue Tariff Party. It also includes other members elected on different platforms but who gave their support to the Free Traders. It includes Norman Cameron, who won the 1904 by-election in Wilmot, following the death of the Protectionist Sir Edward Braddon. A member of the first parliament, Cameron had unsuccessfully contested Denison in the 1903 election.
Frederick Holder, the member for Wakefield, is shown as an independent. Elected as a free trader, he subsequently ran as an independent because he was the Speaker of the House.
The 1901 experience was repeated following the 1903 election. The Protectionist government of Prime Minister Alfred Deakin survived with the support of the ALP. The shifting alliances in the House resulted in Deakin being replaced by the ALP’s Chris Watson in April 1904. In turn, Watson was replaced by the Free Traders’ George Reid in August 1904. Deakin returned to the prime ministership in July 1905, a term that would last until November 1908.
| 1903 Federal Election Results | |||||||
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| Party | NSW | VIC | QLD | SA | WA | TAS | Totals |
| NSW: Eden-Monaro, Hume, Richmond, Riverina (won in by-election) VIC: Balaclava, Ballaarat, Bendigo, Bourke, Corinella, Corio, Echuca, Gippsland, Indi, Laanecoorie, Maribyrnong, Melbourne (lost in by-election), Northern Melbourne, Mernda, Moira, Wimmera QLD: Darling Downs, Oxley WA: Swan SA: Adelaide, Barker Tas: Bass, Denison |
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| NSW: Cowper, Dalley, East Sydney, Hunter, Illawarra, Lang, Macquarie, New England, North Sydney, Parkes, Parramatta, Riverina (lost in by-election), Robertson, South Sydney, Wentworth, Werriwa VIC: Corangamite, Flinders, Grampians, Kooyong, Wannon SA: Angas Tas: Franklin, Wilmot (retained in by-election) |
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| NSW: Barrier, Bland, Canobolas, Darling, Gwydir, Newcastle, West Sydney VIC: Southern Melbourne, Yarra, Melbourne (won in by-election) QLD: Brisbane, Capricornia, Herbert, Kennedy, Maranoa, Moreton, Wide Bay WA: Coolgardie, Fremantle, Kalgoorlie, Perth SA: Boothby, Grey, Hindmarsh Tas: Darwin |
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| SA: Wakefield | |||||||
| Members of the 2nd House of Representatives 1903-1906 | ||||||||
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| No. | Name | Party | Seat | Term Began | Term Ended |
Birth | Death | Age |
| AUSTRALIAN LABOR PARTY MEMBERS | ||||||||
| Frederick Bamford | ||||||||
| Lee Batchelor | Boothby (SA) |
16.12.1903 |
08.10.1911 |
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| Thomas Brown | Canobolas (NSW) Calare (NSW) MLA Lachlan (NSW) |
29.03.1901 12.12.1906 06.12.1913 |
12.12.1906 31.05.1913 21.02.1917 |
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| William Carpenter | Nat Labor |
Fremantle (WA) MLA Fremantle (WA) |
16.12.1903 xx.10.1911 |
12.12.1906 29.09.1917 |
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| Dr Millice Culpin | ||||||||
| Andrew Fisher | MLA Gympie (Qld) Wide Bay (Qld) |
25.03.1899 30.03.1901 |
09.05.1901 26.10.1915 |
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| James Fowler | Lib |
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| Charles Frazer | ||||||||
| William Morris Hughes | ALP Nat UAP Lib |
West Sydney (NSW) Bendigo (Vic) North Sydney (NSW) Bradfield (NSW) |
29.03.1901 05.05.1917 16.12.1922 10.12.1949 |
05.05.1917 16.12.1922 10.12.1949 28.10.1952 |
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| James Hutchison | Hindmarsh (SA) |
16.12.1903 |
06.12.1909 |
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| Charles McDonald | Kennedy (Qld) |
30.03.1901 |
13.11.1925 |
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| Hugh Mahon | Kalgoorlie (WA) Kalgoorlie (WA) |
22.12.1913 13.12.1919 |
05.05.1917 12.11.1920 |
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| Dr William Maloney | ||||||||
| King O’Malley | Darwin (Tas) |
16.12.1903 |
05.05.1917 |
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| James Page | ||||||||
| Alexander Poynton | ALP Nat |
South Australia Grey (SA) |
29.03.1901 16.12.1903 |
16.12.1903 16.12.1922 |
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| James Ronald | ||||||||
| William Spence | Darwin (Tas) |
30.06.1917 |
13.12.1919 |
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| Josiah Thomas | Senate (NSW) Senate (NSW) |
01.07.1917 14.11.1925 |
30.06.1923 20.06.1929 |
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| David Thomson | ||||||||
| Frank Tudor | ||||||||
| David Watkins | ||||||||
| Chris Watson | South Sydney (NSW) |
12.12.1906 |
13.04.1910 |
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| William Webster | Nat |
Gwydir (NSW) |
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| James Wilkinson | ALP |
Moreton (Qld) |
30.03.1901 |
12.12.1906 |
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| PROTECTIONIST PARTY MEMBERS | ||||||||
| (Sir) John Bonython | Barker (SA) |
16.12.1903 |
08.1.1906 |
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| John Chanter | ALP Nat |
MLA Deniliquin (NSW) Riverina (NSW) Riverina (NSW) Riverina (NSW) |
17.07.1894 29.03.1901 18.05.1904 05.09.1914 |
11.06.1901 16.12.1903 31.05.1913 16.12.1922 |
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| (Sir) Austin Chapman | ||||||||
| James Hume Cook | Bourke (Vic) |
29.03.1901 |
13.04.1910 |
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| Richard Crouch | ALP |
Corangamite (Vic) |
12.10.1929 |
19.12.1931 |
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| Alfred Deakin | MLA West Bourke (Vic) MLA Ess&Flem (Vic) Ballaarat (Vic) |
01.07.1880 01.04.1889 29.03.1901 |
01.03.1889 01.10.1900 31.05.1913 |
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| Richard Edwards | Anti-Soc Lib |
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| Thomas Ewing | ||||||||
| (Sir) John Forrest | Lib Nat |
MLA Bunbury (WA) Swan (WA) |
xx.xx.1890 29.03.1901 |
xx.xx.1901 02.09.1918 |
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| (Sir) Philip Fysh | MLC Tas MHA (Tas) MLC Tas MHA (Tas) Tasmania Denison (Tas) |
xx.xx.1870 xx.xx.1873 xx.xx.1884 xx.xx.1894 29.03.1901 16.12.1903 |
xx.xx.1873 xx.xx.1878 xx.xx.1890 xx.xx.1898 16.12.1903 19.02.1910 |
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| (Sir) Littleton Groom | 19.12.1931 |
06.11.1936 |
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| Robert Harper | MLA East Bourke (Vic) MLA Bourke East (Vic) Mernda (Vic) |
01.06.1882 01.09.1891 29.03.1901 |
01.03.1889 01.09.1897 23.04.1913 |
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| Henry Bournes Higgins | Northern Melb (Vic) |
30.03.1901 |
12.12.1906 |
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| (Sir) Isaac Isaacs | MLA Bogong (Vic) Indi (Vic) |
01.06.1893 29.03.1901 |
01.05.1901 12.10.1906 |
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| Thomas Kennedy | Moira (Vic) |
29.03.1901 |
12.12.1906 |
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| Charles Cameron Kingston | MLC (SA) South Australia Adelaide (SA) |
22.09.1900 30.03.1901 16.12.1903 |
31.12.1900 16.12.1903 11.05.1908 |
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| (Sir) William Lyne | Hume (NSW) |
29.03.1901 |
31.05.1913 |
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| (Sir) James McCay | Corinella (Vic) |
29.03.1901 |
12.12.1906 |
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| James McColl | MLA Gunbower (Vic) Echuca (Vic) Senate (Vic) |
01.04.1889 29.03.1901 01.01.1907 |
01.05.1901 05.11.1906 05.09.1914 |
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| (Sir) Malcolm McEacharn | ||||||||
| Allan McLean | MLA Gipps Nth (Vic) Gippsland (Vic) |
01.03.1889 29.03.1901 |
01.05.1901 12.12.1906 |
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| Samuel Mauger | Melbourne Ports (Vic) Maribyrnong (Vic) |
29.03.1901 12.12.1906 |
12.12.1906 13.04.1910 |
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| Pharez Phillips | Wimmera (Vic) |
29.03.1901 |
08.11.1906 |
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| (Sir) John Quick | Bendigo (Vic) |
29.03.1901 |
31.05.1913 |
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| Dr Carty Salmon | Laanecoorie (Vic) Grampians (Vic) |
29.03.1901 20.02.1915 |
23.04.1913 15.09.1917 |
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| David Storrer | Bass (Tas) |
16.12.1903 |
13.04.1910 |
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| (Sir) George Turner | Balaclava (Vic) |
29.03.1901 |
08.11.1906 |
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| FREE TRADE PARTY MEMBERS | ||||||||
| Robert Blackwood | ||||||||
| (Sir) Edward Braddon | MHA West Devon (Tas) Tasmania Wilmot (Tas) |
xx.xx.1893 29.03.1901 16.12.1903 |
xx.xx.1901 16.12.1903 02.02.1904 |
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| Norman Cameron | Tasmania Wilmot (Tas) MHA (Tas) MHA (Tas) |
29.03.1901 26.02.1904 xx.xx.1912 xx.xx.1925 |
16.12.1903 12.12.1906 xx.xx.1913 xx.xx.1928 |
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| Alfred Conroy | Lib |
31.05.1913 |
05.09.1914 |
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| Joseph Cook | Lib/Nat |
Parramatta (NSW) |
30.03.1901 |
10.12.1921 |
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| George Edwards | Lib |
North Sydney (NSW) |
13.04.1910 |
04.02.1911 |
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| George Fuller | Lib |
Illawarra (NSW) MLA Wollondilly (NSW) |
29.03.1901 16.09.1915 |
31.05.1913 07.02.1928 |
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| Patrick Glynn | MLA Nth Adelaide (SA) MLA Nth Adelaide (SA) South Australia Angas (SA) |
xx.xx.1895 xx.xx.1897 30.03.1901 16.12.1903 |
xx.xx.1896 xx.xx.1901 6.12.1903 13.12.1919 |
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| James Gibb | Flinders (Vic) |
16.12.1903 |
12.12.1906 |
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| Eliot Johnson | Lib/Nat |
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| Willie Kelly | Lib/Nat |
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| William Knox | Lib |
Kooyong (Vic) |
29.03.1901 |
26.07.1910 |
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| Henry Lee | ||||||||
| Dr Frank Liddell | ||||||||
| Edmund Lonsdale | Lib |
MLA Armidale (NSW) MLA Armidale (NSW) New England (NSW) MLA Armidale (NSW) |
24.07.1895 03.07.1901 16.12.1903 10.09.1907 |
08.07.1898 31.10.1903 12.12.1906 04.10.1913 |
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| William McWilliams | Ind |
17.11.1928 |
22.10.1929 |
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| George Reid | MLA East Sydney (NSW) MLA Sydney-King (NSW) East Sydney (NSW) East Sydney (NSW) MP St George’s (UK) |
02.03.1887 03.08.1894 29.03.1901 04.09.1903 15.07.1913 |
03.08.1894 30.03.1901 18.08.1903 24.12.1909 12.09.1918 |
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| Arthur Robinson | Wannon (Vic) MLC Melbourne South (Vic) |
16.12.1903 01.03.1912 |
12.12.1906 01.06.1925 |
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| Thomas Skene | ||||||||
| Bruce Smith | Anti-Soc Lib/Nat |
MLA Glebe (NSW) Parkes (NSW) |
18.03.1889 29.03.1901 |
25.06.1894 13.12.1919 |
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| Sydney Smith | MLA Bathurst (NSW) MLA Canterbury (NSW) Macquarie (NSW) |
17.07.1894 09.06.1900 29.03.1901 |
08.07.1898 17.07.1900 12.12.1906 |
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| Dugald Thomson | North Sydney (NSW) |
29.03.1901 |
19.02.1910 |
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| William Wilks | Lib |
Dalley (NSW) |
29.03.1901 |
13.04.1910 |
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| Henry Willis | MLA Upper Hunter (NSW) |
14.10.1910 |
06.11.1913 |
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| Dr Gratton Wilson | Anti-Soc |
Corangamite (Vic) |
16.12.1903 |
13.04.1910 |
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| INDEPENDENT MEMBERS | ||||||||
| Frederick Holder | Ind |
South Australia Wakefield (SA) |
29.03.1901 16.12.1903 |
16.12.1903 23.07.1909 |
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