 In the 1901 election , after which the <unk> under George Leake were able to form a minority government , Frank Wilson , formerly the member for Canning , won the seat . After five months , the Leake government failed , and the governor eventually invited Alf Morgans of the Ministerial Party to form a government and appoint a six @-@ member Ministry . Morgans appointed Wilson minister of mines and commissioner of railways on 21 November 1901 . Until 1947 , members of parliament who were appointed as ministers were required to resign their seat and recontest it at a ministerial by @-@ election , which was normally a fairly non @-@ eventful matter . However , Leake and his allies contested the six by @-@ elections with such organised campaigning that three of the six ministers , including Wilson , were defeated . 
