Member of the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia
In office 30 March 1974 – 19 February 1983
Preceded by
Arthur Bickerton
Succeeded by
Pam Buchanan
Constituency
Pilbara
Personal details
Born
(1942-04-07) 7 April 1942 (age 82) Victoria Park, Western Australia, Australia
Political party
Liberal
Brian Sodeman (born 7 April 1942) is a former Australian politician who was a Liberal Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia from 1974 to 1983, representing the seat of Pilbara.
Sodeman was born in Perth, and moved to the North West in the 1960s to work as an engineer.[1] He was elected to parliament at the 1974 state election, defeating the sitting Labor member, Arthur Bickerton. He was the first non-Labor member for Pilbara since Frank Welsh's defeat at the 1939 election. Sodeman increased his margin slightly at the 1977 election, defeating the Labor candidate Norm Marlborough with 52.8 percent of the two-party-preferred vote. This decreased to 51.6 percent at the 1980 election, making it one of the most marginal seats in the state.[2] However, Sodeman chose not to contest the 1983 election, retiring from politics after a little less than nine years in office.[1] The seat of Pilbara was won by the Labor candidate, Pam Buchanan, with a large margin.[2]
^ abBrian Sodeman – Biographical Register of Members of the Parliament of Western Australia. Retrieved 13 May 2016.
^ abBlack, David; Prescott, Valerie (1997). Election statistics : Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, 1890-1996. Perth, [W.A.]: Western Australian Parliamentary History Project and Western Australian Electoral Commission. ISBN 0730984095.
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