Candidates of the 1951 Australian federal election

Template:Short description Template:Use Australian English This article provides information on candidates who stood for the 1951 Australian federal election. The election was held on 28 April 1951.

By-elections, appointments and defections

Defections

• In 1951, Country Party MP Charles Russell (Maranoa) was expelled from the party for advocating the appreciation of the pound. He contested the election as an independent.

Retiring Members and Senators

Labor

• Jack Holloway MP (Melbourne Ports, Vic)
• Senator Fred Beerworth (SA)

Liberal

• Dame Enid Lyons MP (Darwin, Tas)
• Percy Spender MP (Warringah, NSW)
• Senator Wilfrid Simmonds (Qld)

House of Representatives

Sitting members at the time of the election are shown in bold text. Successful candidates are highlighted in the relevant colour. Where there is possible confusion, an asterisk (*) is also used.

Australian Capital Territory

Electorate	Held by	Labor candidate	Liberal candidate	Independent candidates
		Template:Australian party style|	Template:Australian party style|
Australian Capital Territory	Independent	Template:Australian party shading/Labor|Jim Fraser	Clyde Greenwood	Jessie Ashton Lewis Nott

New South Wales

Electorate	Held by	Labor candidate	Coalition candidate	Other candidates
		Template:Australian party style|	Template:Australian party style|
Banks	Labor	Template:Australian party shading/Labor|Eric Costa	George Roffey (Lib)
Barton	Labor	Template:Australian party shading/Labor|H. V. Evatt	Nancy Wake (Lib)
Bennelong	Liberal	William Fitzgibbon	Template:Australian party shading/Liberal|John Cramer (Lib)
Blaxland	Labor	Template:Australian party shading/Labor|Jim Harrison	Jim Dennison (Lib)
Bradfield	Liberal	Hugh Milne	Template:Australian party shading/Liberal|Billy Hughes (Lib)
Calare	Liberal	John Howell	Template:Australian party shading/Liberal|John Howse (Lib)	Archibald Gardiner (Ind)
Cook	Labor	Template:Australian party shading/Labor|Tom Sheehan	Roy Hatfield (Lib)	Harry Hatfield (CPA)
Cowper	Country	William Bailey	Template:Australian party shading/Nationals|Sir Earle Page (CP)	William Tomlinson (Ind)
Cunningham	Labor	Template:Australian party shading/Labor|Billy Davies	Alan Thomson (Lib)	Eric Aarons (CPA)
Dalley	Labor	Template:Australian party shading/Labor|Sol Rosevear	John Laffin (Lib)
Darling	Labor	Template:Australian party shading/Labor|Joe Clark	Elson Whyte (CP)
East Sydney	Labor	Template:Australian party shading/Labor|Eddie Ward	Allan Stewart (Lib)
Eden-Monaro	Labor	Template:Australian party shading/Labor|Allan Fraser	Bill Keys (Lib)
Evans	Liberal	Robert Bailey	Template:Australian party shading/Liberal|Frederick Osborne (Lib)
Farrer	Liberal	Daniel Byrnes	Template:Australian party shading/Liberal|David Fairbairn (Lib)
Grayndler	Labor	Template:Australian party shading/Labor|Fred Daly	Roy Squire (Lib)	William McCristal (ARP)
Gwydir	Country	Norman Ferguson	Template:Australian party shading/Nationals|Thomas Treloar (CP)
Hume	Country	Template:Australian party shading/Labor|Arthur Fuller	Charles Anderson (CP)
Hunter	Labor	Template:Australian party shading/Labor|Rowley James	Ted Fletcher (Lib)	Arthur English (Ind) Evan Phillips (CPA)
Kingsford-Smith	Labor	Template:Australian party shading/Labor|Gordon Anderson	Arthur Butterell (Lib)
Lang	Labor	Template:Australian party shading/Labor|Dan Mulcahy	Robert Bruce (Lib)	Roy Boyd (CPA)
Lawson	Country	Alan Manning	Template:Australian party shading/Nationals|Laurie Failes (CP)
Lowe	Liberal	John Burton	Template:Australian party shading/Liberal|William McMahon (Lib)
Lyne	Country	Edward Hayes	Template:Australian party shading/Nationals|Jim Eggins (CP)	Joe Cordner (Ind)
Macarthur	Liberal	William McDonnell	Template:Australian party shading/Liberal|Jeff Bate (Lib)
Mackellar	Liberal	Thomas Sherley	Template:Australian party shading/Liberal|Bill Wentworth (Lib)
Macquarie	Labor	Template:Australian party shading/Labor|Ben Chifley	Bob Cotton (Lib)
Martin	Labor	Template:Australian party shading/Labor|William O'Connor	George Read (Lib)	Terry Gordon (CPA) Malinda Ivey (Ind)
Mitchell	Liberal	Joseph White	Template:Australian party shading/Liberal|Roy Wheeler (Lib)	Mel McCalman (CPA)
New England	Country	William Wilson	Template:Australian party shading/Nationals|David Drummond (CP)
Newcastle	Labor	Template:Australian party shading/Labor|David Watkins	Roy Stewart (Lib)	Laurie Aarons (CPA)
North Sydney	Liberal	Eileen Powell	Template:Australian party shading/Liberal|William Jack (Lib)
Parkes	Labor	Template:Australian party shading/Labor|Les Haylen	Dick Dein (Lib)
Parramatta	Liberal	John Holmes	Template:Australian party shading/Liberal|Howard Beale (Lib)
Paterson	Liberal	Cecil Robinson	Template:Australian party shading/Liberal|Allen Fairhall (Lib)
Phillip	Labor	Template:Australian party shading/Labor|Joe Fitzgerald	Les Fingleton (Lib)
Reid	Labor	Template:Australian party shading/Labor|Charles Morgan	Jim Clough (Lib)	Rupert Sheldon (Ind)
Richmond	Country	Alexander Bryen	Template:Australian party shading/Nationals|Larry Anthony (CP)
Riverina	Country	Michael Sheehan	Template:Australian party shading/Nationals|Hugh Roberton (CP)	Les Kelton (CPA)
Robertson	Liberal	Walter Geraghty	Template:Australian party shading/Liberal|Roger Dean (Lib)
Shortland	Labor	Template:Australian party shading/Labor|Charles Griffiths	Arthur Downey (Lib)
St George	Liberal	Nelson Lemmon	Template:Australian party shading/Liberal|Bill Graham (Lib)
Warringah	Liberal	Frank McCullum	Template:Australian party shading/Liberal|Francis Bland (Lib)
Watson	Labor	Template:Australian party shading/Labor|Dan Curtin	Donald Clark (Lib)
Wentworth	Liberal	Cecil Trevelyan	Template:Australian party shading/Liberal|Eric Harrison (Lib)
Werriwa	Labor	Template:Australian party shading/Labor|Bert Lazzarini	Ian Griffith (Lib)
West Sydney	Labor	Template:Australian party shading/Labor|Dan Minogue	Basil Mottershead (Lib)	Jack Miles (CPA) Clare Peters (Ind Lab)

Northern Territory

Electorate	Held by	Labor candidate	Country candidate	Independent candidates
		Template:Australian party style|	Template:Australian party style|
Northern Territory	Labor	Template:Australian party shading/Labor|Jock Nelson	Ralph Edwards	Jessie Litchfield

Queensland

Electorate	Held by	Labor candidate	Coalition candidate	Other candidates
		Template:Australian party style|	Template:Australian party style|
Bowman	Liberal	Michael Lyons	Template:Australian party shading/Liberal|Malcolm McColm (Lib)	Mabel Hanson (CPA)
Brisbane	Labor	Template:Australian party shading/Labor|George Lawson	Donagh McDonagh (Lib)	Alby Graham (CPA)
Capricornia	Liberal	Mick Gardner	Template:Australian party shading/Liberal|George Pearce (Lib)
Darling Downs	Liberal		Template:Australian party shading/Liberal|Reginald Swartz (Lib)
Dawson	Country	George Hyde	Template:Australian party shading/Nationals|Charles Davidson (CP)
Fisher	Country	Geoffrey Arnell	Template:Australian party shading/Nationals|Charles Adermann (CP)
Griffith	Liberal	William Thieme	Template:Australian party shading/Liberal|Doug Berry (Lib)
Herbert	Labor	Template:Australian party shading/Labor|Bill Edmonds	Doug Jeffrey (CP)	Gloria Phelan (CPA)
Kennedy	Labor	Template:Australian party shading/Labor|Bill Riordan	Ulick Browne (CP)
Leichhardt	Country	Template:Australian party shading/Labor|Harry Bruce	Tom Gilmore (CP)	Richard Anear (CPA)
Lilley	Liberal	Jim Hadley	Template:Australian party shading/Liberal|Bruce Wight (Lib)	Walter Collings (Ind)
McPherson	Country		Template:Australian party shading/Nationals|Arthur Fadden (CP)	John Rosser (Ind)
Maranoa	Country	Alfred Dohring	Template:Australian party shading/Nationals|Wilfred Brimblecombe (CP)	Charles Russell (Ind)
Moreton	Liberal	Ted Mansfield	Template:Australian party shading/Liberal|Josiah Francis (Lib)	Bill Yarrow (CPA)
Oxley	Liberal	Andrew Crilly	Template:Australian party shading/Liberal|Donald Cameron (Lib)	Frank O'Connor (CPA)
Petrie	Liberal	Patrick Bredhauer	Template:Australian party shading/Liberal|Alan Hulme (Lib)
Ryan	Liberal	Frank Luton	Template:Australian party shading/Liberal|Nigel Drury (Lib)
Wide Bay	Country	Thomas Wallace	Template:Australian party shading/Nationals|Bernard Corser (CP)

South Australia

Electorate	Held by	Labor candidate	Liberal candidate	Other candidates
		Template:Australian party style|	Template:Australian party style|
Adelaide	Labor	Template:Australian party shading/Labor|Cyril Chambers	Thomas Phillips	Edward Robertson (CPA)
Angas	Liberal	John Edwards	Template:Australian party shading/Liberal|Alick Downer
Barker	Liberal	Jim Corcoran	Template:Australian party shading/Liberal|Archie Cameron	Charles Lloyd (Ind) Frank Rieck (Ind)
Boothby	Liberal	Len Wright	Template:Australian party shading/Liberal|John McLeay
Grey	Labor	Template:Australian party shading/Labor|Edgar Russell	Edward Andrews
Hindmarsh	Labor	Template:Australian party shading/Labor|Clyde Cameron
Kingston	Liberal	Template:Australian party shading/Labor|Pat Galvin	Jim Handby	Eric Stead (CPA)
Port Adelaide	Labor	Template:Australian party shading/Labor|Albert Thompson	John Caskey	Alan Finger (CPA)
Sturt	Liberal	Leslie McMullin	Template:Australian party shading/Liberal|Keith Wilson
Wakefield	Liberal	Cyril Hasse	Template:Australian party shading/Liberal|Philip McBride

Tasmania

Electorate	Held by	Labor candidate	Liberal candidate
		Template:Australian party style|	Template:Australian party style|
Bass	Liberal	Colman O'Byrne	Template:Australian party shading/Liberal|Bruce Kekwick
Darwin	Liberal	Clem Foster Max Poulter	Template:Australian party shading/Liberal|Aubrey Luck
Denison	Liberal	Mervyn McNeair	Template:Australian party shading/Liberal|Athol Townley
Franklin	Liberal	Jack Frost	Template:Australian party shading/Liberal|Bill Falkinder
Wilmot	Labor	Template:Australian party shading/Labor|Gil Duthie	Lionel Browning

Victoria

Electorate	Held by	Labor candidate	Coalition candidate	Other candidates
		Template:Australian party style|	Template:Australian party style|
Balaclava	Liberal	Arthur Lewis	Template:Australian party shading/Liberal|Thomas White (Lib)
Ballaarat	Liberal	Template:Australian party shading/Labor|Bob Joshua	Alan Pittard (Lib)
Batman	Labor	Template:Australian party shading/Labor|Alan Bird	Fred Capp (Lib)
Bendigo	Labor	Template:Australian party shading/Labor|Percy Clarey	Charles Carty-Salmon (Lib)
Burke	Labor	Template:Australian party shading/Labor|Ted Peters	Alfred Wall (Lib)
Chisholm	Liberal	Ronald Whiting	Template:Australian party shading/Liberal|Wilfrid Kent Hughes (Lib)
Corangamite	Liberal	Angus McLean	Template:Australian party shading/Liberal|Allan McDonald (Lib)
Corio	Liberal	John Dedman	Template:Australian party shading/Liberal|Hubert Opperman (Lib)
Darebin	Labor	Template:Australian party shading/Labor|Tom Andrews	Gordon Savage (Lib)
Deakin	Liberal	Gordon Bryant	Template:Australian party shading/Liberal|Frank Davis (Lib)	Eric Butler (Ind)
Fawkner	Labor	Template:Australian party shading/Labor|Bill Bourke	Peter Howson (Lib)	Colin Kennedy (Ind)
Flinders	Liberal	Keith Ewert	Template:Australian party shading/Liberal|Rupert Ryan (Lib)	Robert Hipwell (Ind)
Gellibrand	Labor	Template:Australian party shading/Labor|Jack Mullens	Gordon Trewin (Lib)	Alex Dobbin (CPA)
Gippsland	Country	Victor Fitzgerald	Template:Australian party shading/Nationals|George Bowden (CP)
Henty	Liberal	Percy Treyvaud	Template:Australian party shading/Liberal|Jo Gullett (Lib)	Doris McRae (CPA)
Higgins	Liberal	Benjamin Nicholas	Template:Australian party shading/Liberal|Harold Holt (Lib)	Mary Kent Hughes (Ind)
Higinbotham	Liberal	Geoffrey Sowerbutts	Template:Australian party shading/Liberal|Frank Timson (Lib)
Hoddle	Labor	Template:Australian party shading/Labor|Jack Cremean	Jack Easton (Lib)	Leslie Loye (CPA)
Indi	Liberal	Charles Edmondson	Template:Australian party shading/Liberal|William Bostock (Lib)
Isaacs	Liberal	John Bourke	Template:Australian party shading/Liberal|William Haworth (Lib)	Sam Goldbloom (Ind Lab)
Kooyong	Liberal	Maurice Sheehy	Template:Australian party shading/Liberal|Robert Menzies (Lib)	Ted Laurie (CPA)
La Trobe	Liberal	Bernard Rees	Template:Australian party shading/Liberal|Richard Casey (Lib)
Lalor	Labor	Template:Australian party shading/Labor|Reg Pollard	Allen Bateman (Lib)
Mallee	Country	Alfred O'Connor	Template:Australian party shading/Nationals|Winton Turnbull (CP)
Maribyrnong	Labor	Template:Australian party shading/Labor|Arthur Drakeford	Stuart Collie (Lib)
McMillan	Liberal	Horace Hawkins	Template:Australian party shading/Liberal|Geoffrey Brown (Lib)	Fred Charlesworth (CPA)
Melbourne	Labor	Template:Australian party shading/Labor|Arthur Calwell	Desmond Byrne (Lib)	Gerry O'Day (CPA)
Melbourne Ports	Labor	Template:Australian party shading/Labor|Frank Crean	Michael Prowse (Lib)
Murray	Country	Gordon Anderson	Template:Australian party shading/Nationals|John McEwen (CP)
Wannon	Liberal	Template:Australian party shading/Labor|Don McLeod	Dan Mackinnon (Lib)
Wills	Labor	Template:Australian party shading/Labor|Bill Bryson	Baden Grafen (Lib)	Doris Blackburn (Prog Lab)
Wimmera	Liberal	Cyril Sudholz	Template:Australian party shading/Liberal|William Lawrence (Lib)
Yarra	Labor	Template:Australian party shading/Labor|Stan Keon	Kenneth Bisney (Lib)	Ken Miller (CPA)

Western Australia

Electorate	Held by	Labor candidate	Coalition candidate	Communist candidate
		Template:Australian party style|	Template:Australian party style|	Template:Australian party style|
Canning	Country	Percy Munday	Template:Australian party shading/Nationals|Len Hamilton (CP)
Curtin	Liberal	John Henshaw	Template:Australian party shading/Liberal|Paul Hasluck (Lib)
Forrest	Liberal	Frederick O'Connor	Template:Australian party shading/Liberal|Gordon Freeth (Lib)
Fremantle	Labor	Template:Australian party shading/Labor|Kim Beazley	Len Seaton (Lib)
Kalgoorlie	Labor	Template:Australian party shading/Labor|Herbert Johnson
Moore	Country	Arthur Hunter	Template:Australian party shading/Nationals|Hugh Leslie (CP)
Perth	Labor	Template:Australian party shading/Labor|Tom Burke	Billy Snedden (Lib)	James Kelly
Swan	Liberal	Harry Webb	Template:Australian party shading/Liberal|Bill Grayden (Lib)	Alex Jolly

Senate

Sitting Senators are shown in bold text. Since this was a double dissolution, all senators were up for re-election, with the first five from each state elected to six-year terms and the remaining five to three-year terms. Tickets that elected at least one Senator are highlighted in the relevant colour. Successful candidates are identified by an asterisk (*).

New South Wales

Ten seats were up for election. The Labor Party was defending six seats. The Liberal-Country Coalition was defending four seats.

Labor candidates	Coalition candidates	Communist candidates	PPP candidates	Ungrouped candidates
Template:Australian party style|	Template:Australian party style|	Template:Australian party style|	Template:Australian party style|
Template:Australian party shading/Labor valign=top | Bill Ashley* John Armstrong* James Arnold* Donald Grant* Stan Amour* William Large	Template:Australian party shading/Liberal valign=top | Bill Spooner* (Lib) Albert Reid* (CP) John McCallum* (Lib) John Tate* (Lib) Alister McMullin* (Lib) Thelma Kirkby (CP)	Richard Dixon Jim Healy Joe Bailes Edgar Ross Nellie Simm Cecil Connors	Ronald Sarina James Fowler	Edward Spensley (Ind) Robert Anstee (Ind) Jack Lang (LL) William Webb (Ind)

Queensland

Ten seats were up for election. The Labor Party was defending three seats. The Liberal-Country Coalition was defending seven seats.

Labor candidates	Coalition candidates	Communist candidates	Ungrouped candidates
Template:Australian party style|	Template:Australian party style|	Template:Australian party style|
Template:Australian party shading/Labor valign=top | Ben Courtice* Archie Benn* Gordon Brown* Condon Byrne* Samuel Martin Austin Elliott	Template:Australian party shading/Liberal valign=top | Walter Cooper* (CP) Neil O'Sullivan* (Lib) Annabelle Rankin* (Lib) Ted Maher* (CP) Ian Wood* (Lib) Roy Kendall* (Lib)	Fred Paterson Max Julius Alex Macdonald Frank Falls Tom Millar Jim Peterson	Frank Barnes Clifford Banks

South Australia

Ten seats were up for election. The Labor Party was defending seven seats. The Liberal Party was defending three seats.

Labor candidates	Liberal candidates	Ungrouped candidates
Template:Australian party style|	Template:Australian party style|
Template:Australian party shading/Labor valign=top | Sid O'Flaherty* Theo Nicholls* Jack Critchley* Alex Finlay* John Ryan* Frederick Ward	Template:Australian party shading/Liberal valign=top | Ted Mattner* George McLeay* Clive Hannaford* Rex Pearson* Keith Laught* Basil Proctor	Henry Schneider John Sendy (CPA) John Gartner

Tasmania

Ten seats were up for election. The Labor Party was defending six seats. The Liberal Party was defending four seats.

Labor candidates	Liberal candidates	Communist candidates
Template:Australian party style|	Template:Australian party style|	Template:Australian party style|
Template:Australian party shading/Labor valign=top | Bill Morrow* Nick McKenna* Charles Lamp Justin O'Byrne* Bill Aylett* George Cole* Reg Murray	Template:Australian party shading/Liberal valign=top | Jack Chamberlain* Allan Guy* Denham Henty* John Marriott Robert Wordsworth* Reg Wright*	Jack Lynch Max Bound

Victoria

Ten seats were up for election. The Labor Party was defending six seats. The Liberal-Country Coalition was defending four seats.

Labor candidates	Coalition candidates	Communist candidates	HGJP candidates
Template:Australian party style|	Template:Australian party style|	Template:Australian party style|
Template:Australian party shading/Labor valign=top | Don Cameron* Charles Sandford* Jim Sheehan* Jack Devlin* Bert Hendrickson* Fred Katz	Template:Australian party shading/Liberal valign=top | John Spicer* (Lib) George Rankin* (CP) John Gorton* (Lib) Ivy Wedgwood* (Lib) Magnus Cormack* (Lib) William Moss (CP)	Ralph Gibson Bill Bird Bill Tregear Agnes Doig Ted Bull Paddy O'Donoghue	Leslie Bawden Lance Hutchinson Walter Tindall

Western Australia

Ten seats were up for election. The Labor Party was defending six seats. The Liberal-Country Coalition was defending four seats.

Labor candidates	Coalition candidates	Communist candidates	Ungrouped candidates
Template:Australian party style|	Template:Australian party style|	Template:Australian party style|
Template:Australian party shading/Labor valign=top | Dorothy Tangney* Don Willesee* James Fraser* Richard Nash* Joe Cooke John Harris	Template:Australian party shading/Liberal valign=top | Agnes Robertson* (Lib) Seddon Vincent* (Lib) Edmund Piesse* (CP) Malcolm Scott* (Lib) Harrie Seward* (CP) Shane Paltridge* (Lib)	Kevin Healy Pat Hurd Jack Coleman	Carlyle Ferguson (APA) Robert Salter

Summary by party

Beside each party is the number of seats contested by that party in the House of Representatives for each state, as well as an indication of whether the party contested Senate elections in each state.

Party	NSW		Vic		Qld		WA		SA		Tas		ACT	NT	Total
	HR	S	HR	S	HR	S	HR	S	HR	S	HR	S	HR	HR	HR	S
Australian Labor Party	47	*	33	*	17	*	8	*	10	*	6	*	1	1	123	6
Liberal Party of Australia	39	*	30	*	10	*	5	*	9	*	5	*	1		99	6
Australian Country Party	8	*	3	*	8	*	2	*						1	22	4
Communist Party of Australia	9	*	7	*	6	*	2	*	3	*		*			27	6
Australian Republican Party	1														1
Protestant People's Party		*														1
Lang Labor		*														1
Henry George Justice Party				*												1
All Parties Administration								*								1
Independent and other	7		5		2				2				2	1	19

See also

• 1951 Australian federal election
• Members of the Australian House of Representatives, 1949–1951
• Members of the Australian House of Representatives, 1951–1954
• Members of the Australian Senate, 1950–1951
• Members of the Australian Senate, 1951–1953
• List of political parties in Australia

References

• Adam Carr's Election Archive - House of Representatives 1951
• Adam Carr's Election Archive - Senate 1951