A by-election for the seat of Claremont in the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia was held on 11 June 1902.
John Foulkes, a prominent local lawyer, won the election with 40.4 percent of the vote.
William Sayer had won Claremont at the 1901 state election,[1] to continue serving as attorney-general in the government of George Throssell.
However, Throssell's government was short-lived (and thus so was Sayer's time in the ministry), and he resigned from parliament on 26 May 1902 to take up the position of chief parliamentary draughtsman.
[3] Of his losing opponents, Langsford, Pennefather, and Wilson all either entered or re-entered parliament within the next decade.