{{Short description|Australian politician}} {{Use Australian English|date=March 2016}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2016}} {{Infobox officeholder |honorific_prefix = |name = Les Nimmo |honorific_suffix = |image = |caption = |office = Member of the Legislative Assembly<br/>of Western Australia |constituency = Mount Hawthorn |term_start = 15 March 1947 |term_end = 25 March 1950 |predecessor = Harry Millington |successor = Bill Hegney |constituency2 = Wembley Beaches |term_start2 = 25 March 1950 |term_end2 = 7 April 1956 |predecessor2 = None {{Small|(new seat)}} |successor2 = Frederick Marshall |constituency3 = Wembley Beaches |term_start3 = 21 March 1959 |term_end3 = 31 March 1962 |predecessor3 = Frederick Marshall |successor3 = None {{Small|(seat abolished)}} |constituency4 = Karrinyup |term_start4 = 31 March 1962 |term_end4 = 23 March 1968 |predecessor4 = None {{Small|(new seat)}} |successor4 = Stan Lapham |birth_date = {{Birth date|1897|2|23|df=y}} |birth_place = Hobart, Tasmania, Australia |death_date = {{Death date and age|1972|11|6|1897|2|23|df=y}} |death_place = Shenton Park, Western Australia, Australia |party = Liberal }}
'''Leslie Charles "Les" Nimmo''' (23 February 1897 – 6 November 1972) was an Australian politician who was a Liberal Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia from 1947 to 1956 and again from 1959 to 1968.
Nimmo was born in Hobart, Tasmania, to Frances (née Grahame) and James Nimmo. He served with the Royal Australian Navy during World War I, and on his return to Hobart worked as a shop assistant. Nimmo moved to Perth in 1930, and began working for a department store, where he eventually became a manager.<ref name="bio">[http://www.parliament.wa.gov.au/parliament/library/MPHistoricalData.nsf/(Lookup)/52F4953EDDE2A5FD482577E50028A73E?OpenDocument Leslie Charles Nimmo] – Biographical Register of Members of the Parliament of Western Australia. Retrieved 29 May 2016.</ref> He entered parliament at the 1947 state election, narrowly winning the inner-city seat of Mount Hawthorn from the Labor Party. At the 1950 election, Nimmo transferred to the new seat of Wembley Beaches, with his old seat reverting to the Labor Party. He again attempted to move seats at the 1956 election, but was defeated in the seat of Leederville by the sitting member, Labor's Ted Johnson. A Labor candidate, Frederick Marshall, also won in Wembley Beaches, but Nimmo reclaimed that seat at the 1959 election. However, Wembley Beaches was abolished prior to the 1962 election, forcing another change of seats to the new Karrinyup electorate. Nimmo held Karrinyup until his retirement at the 1968 election.<ref name="res">{{cite book|last=Black|first=David|authorlink=David Black (historian)|last2=Prescott|first2=Valerie|title=Election statistics : Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, 1890-1996|year=1997|publisher=Western Australian Parliamentary History Project and Western Australian Electoral Commission|location=Perth, [W.A.]|isbn=0730984095}}</ref> He died in Perth in November 1972, aged 75. He was married twice, having two children by his first wife and then remarrying at the age of 67 following her death.<ref name="bio"/>
==References== {{reflist}}
{{s-start}} {{s-par|au-wa}} {{s-bef|before=Harry Millington}} {{s-ttl|title=Member for Mount Hawthorn|years=1947–1950}} {{s-aft|after=Bill Hegney}} {{s-bef|before=None (new seat)<br/>Frederick Marshall}} {{s-ttl|title=Member for Wembley Beaches|years=1950–1956<br/>1959–1962}} {{s-aft|after=Frederick Marshall<br/>None (abolished)}} {{s-new|seat}} {{s-ttl|title=Member for Karrinyup|years=1962–1968}} {{s-aft|after=Stan Lapham}} {{s-end}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Nimmo, Les}} Category:1897 births Category:1972 deaths Category:Liberal Party of Australia members of the Parliament of Western Australia Category:Members of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly Category:Politicians from Hobart