Elections were held in the Australian state of Western Australia on 7 April 1956 to elect 10 of the 30 members of the state's Legislative Council.
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| Province | Held by | Labor candidates | LCL candidates | Country candidates | Independent candidates | ||||
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| Leslie Diver | |||||||||
| Herbert Fletcher | Keith Watson | Ray O'Connor (Ind. Lib) | |||||||
| Ray Jones | |||||||||
| Harry Strickland | Edmund Webb | ||||||||
| Eric Heenan | James Boyd | ||||||||
| Jack Thomson | |||||||||
| Archibald McGillivray | John Cunningham | ||||||||
| Ernest Stapleton | |||||||||
| William McPherson | |||||||||
| Evan Davies | |||||||||