Reg Davies (politician)

Reginald Elliott "Reg" Davies (born 21 December 1943) is a former Australian politician.

He was born in Bellingen, New South Wales to farrier Edward Davies and Edna Milly Clayworth. He was educated in the New South Wales towns of Belmont and Wauchope and worked as a labourer from 1959 to 1963. In 1963 he enlisted in the Army, seeing active service in Borneo, Vietnam and Malaysia before his retirement in 1985. Having moved to Western Australia, he served on Stirling City Council from 1986 to 1989 and was also active in the local Liberal Party as president of the Balga branch from 1986 to 1988. He was the regional co-ordinator for North Metropolitan Province from 1987 to 1989 and directed the campaigns for the federal seats of Cowan in 1987 and Moore in 1990. In 1989 he was elected to the Western Australian Legislative Council for North Metropolitan. He resigned from the Liberal Party in 1991, and was re-elected as an independent in 1993; he remains the only person to win election to the reconstituted Council as an independent. Davies was defeated in 1996 and his term ended in 1997.^[1]

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