Candidates of the 1954 Australian federal election

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This article provides information on candidates who stood for the 1954 Australian federal election. The election was held on 29 May 1954. There was no election for the Senate.

By-elections, appointments and defections

By-elections and appointments

On 28 July 1951, Tony Luchetti (Labor) was elected to replace Ben Chifley (Labor) as the member for Macquarie.
On 28 July 1951, Percy Joske (Liberal) was elected to replace Thomas White (Liberal) as the member for Balaclava.
On 22 March 1952, Philip Lucock (Country) was elected to replace Jim Eggins (Country) as the member for Lyne.
On 18 October 1952, Keith Ewert (Labor) was elected to replace Rupert Ryan (Liberal) as the member for Flinders.
On 29 November 1952, Gough Whitlam (Labor) was elected to replace Bert Lazzarini (Labor) as the member for Werriwa.
On 20 December 1952, Harry Turner (Liberal) was elected to replace Billy Hughes (Liberal) as the member for Bradfield.
On 9 May 1953, Arthur Greenup (Labor) was elected to replace Sol Rosevear (Labor) as the member for Dalley.
On 29 August 1953, Frank Stewart (Labor) was elected to replace Dan Mulcahy (Labor) as the member for Lang.
On 29 August 1953, Dan Mackinnon (Liberal) was elected to replace Allan McDonald (Liberal) as the member for Corangamite.
On 19 December 1953, Ian Allan (Country) was elected to replace Thomas Treloar (Country) as the member for Gwydir.

Retiring Members

Country

Bernard Corser MP (Wide Bay, 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

Australian Capital Territory	Labor	Jim Fraser	Mary Stevenson	John Cusack

New South Wales

Electorate	Held by	Labor candidate	Coalition candidate	Other candidates

Banks	Labor	Eric Costa	Harold Stalker (Lib)	Pat Clancy (CPA)
Barton	Labor	H. V. Evatt	Bill Arthur (Lib)
Bennelong	Liberal	Thomas Campbell	John Cramer (Lib)
Blaxland	Labor	Jim Harrison	Reginald Allsop (Lib)	Jack Hughes (CPA)
Bradfield	Liberal		Harry Turner (Lib)
Calare	Liberal	John Breen	John Howse (Lib)	Madge Roberts (Ind)
Cook	Labor	Tom Sheehan		Harry Hatfield (CPA) Percy Staines (Ind)
Cowper	Country	William Bailey	Sir Earle Page (CP)	Kenneth Harding (CPA)
Cunningham	Labor	Billy Davies	John Parkinson (Lib)	Bill Parkinson (CPA)
Dalley	Labor	Arthur Greenup	Robert Stafford (Lib)	Flo Davis (CPA)
Darling	Labor	Joe Clark	Rodan Dawson (CP)
East Sydney	Labor	Eddie Ward	George Chambers (Lib)	Bill Brown (CPA)
Eden-Monaro	Labor	Allan Fraser	Royce Beavis (Lib)
Evans	Liberal	Robert Bailey	Frederick Osborne (Lib)
Farrer	Liberal	Daniel Byrnes	David Fairbairn (Lib)
Grayndler	Labor	Fred Daly	Kenneth Innes (Lib)	William McCristal (Ind)
Gwydir	Country	Michael Quinn	Ian Allan (CP)
Hume	Labor	Arthur Fuller	Charles Anderson (CP) Linden Roth (Lib)
Hunter	Labor	Rowley James	Edward Farrell (Lib)	John McCroarey (Ind) Evan Phillips (CPA) John White (Ind)
Kingsford-Smith	Labor	Gordon Anderson	George Dan (Lib)
Lang	Labor	Frank Stewart	John Spicer (Lib)
Lawson	Country	Alan Manning	Laurie Failes (CP)	Dick Bourke (Ind)
Lowe	Liberal	William Webster	William McMahon (Lib)
Lyne	Country		Philip Lucock (CP)	Joe Cordner (Ind) Donald Lancaster (Ind)
Macarthur	Liberal	Claude Allen	Jeff Bate (Lib)
Mackellar	Liberal	Francis Neate	Bill Wentworth (Lib)	Ray Clarke (CPA)
Macquarie	Labor	Tony Luchetti	Horace Brownlow (Lib)	John King (CPA)
Martin	Labor	William O'Connor	Elton Lewis (Lib)	Ernie Thornton (CPA)
Mitchell	Liberal	Doug Bowd	Roy Wheeler (Lib)	Mel McCalman (CPA)
New England	Country	Frederick Cowley	David Drummond (CP)
Newcastle	Labor	David Watkins	Matthew Tapp (Lib)	Sidney Monroe (Ind) Doug Olive (CPA)
North Sydney	Liberal	Leo Haylen	William Jack (Lib)
Parkes	Labor	Les Haylen	William Ness (Lib)
Parramatta	Liberal	John Holmes	Howard Beale (Lib)
Paterson	Liberal	Kevin Barlow	Allen Fairhall (Lib)
Phillip	Labor	Joe Fitzgerald	Henry Clarke (Lib)
Reid	Labor	Charles Morgan	Bob Mutton (Lib)	Laurie Aarons (CPA) Horace Hancock (OLM)
Richmond	Country		Larry Anthony (CP)
Riverina	Country	Michael Sheehan	Hugh Roberton (CP)	Les Kelton (CPA)
Robertson	Liberal	Walter Geraghty	Roger Dean (Lib)	John Tapp (CPA)
Shortland	Labor	Charles Griffiths	Arthur Downey (Lib)
St George	Liberal	Nelson Lemmon	Bill Graham (Lib)
Warringah	Liberal	Ronald Nibbs	Francis Bland (Lib)	Ernest White (Ind)
Watson	Labor	Dan Curtin	Hubert O'Connell (Lib)
Wentworth	Liberal		Sir Eric Harrison (Lib)
Werriwa	Labor	Gough Whitlam	Jack Lee (Lib)	Edwin Lipscombe (CPA)
West Sydney	Labor	Dan Minogue		Anthony Micallef (Ind) Lance Sharkey (CPA)

Northern Territory

Electorate	Held by	Labor candidate	Country candidate

Northern Territory	Labor	Jock Nelson	Ralph Edwards

Queensland

Electorate	Held by	Labor candidate	Coalition candidate	Other candidates

Bowman	Liberal	Jack Houston	Malcolm McColm (Lib)	Mabel Hanson (CPA)
Brisbane	Labor	George Lawson	Vic Mead (Lib)	Max Julius (CPA)
Capricornia	Liberal	Mick Gardner	George Pearce (Lib)	Eric Browne (CPA)
Darling Downs	Liberal	William Watson	Reginald Swartz (Lib)
Dawson	Country	George Hyde	Charles Davidson (CP)
Fisher	Country	Sydney Campbell	Charles Adermann (CP)
Griffith	Liberal	Wilfred Coutts	Doug Berry (Lib)
Herbert	Labor	Bill Edmonds	Fred Purdie (CP)	Claude Jones (CPA)
Kennedy	Labor	Bill Riordan	Cliff Lanham (CP)
Leichhardt	Labor	Harry Bruce	Tom Gilmore (CP)	Joe Howe (CPA)
Lilley	Liberal	Bernard Williams	Bruce Wight (Lib)
McPherson	Country		Sir Arthur Fadden (CP)	Sir Raphael Cilento (Ind Dem)
Maranoa	Country	Eric Taylor	Wilfred Brimblecombe (CP)	Charles Russell (Ind Dem)
Moreton	Liberal	Ted Mansfield	Josiah Francis (Lib)	Bill Yarrow (CPA)
Oxley	Liberal	Norman Thomas	Donald Cameron (Lib)	Tom Millar (CPA)
Petrie	Liberal	Alexander Barry	Alan Hulme (Lib)
Ryan	Liberal	Frank Luton	Nigel Drury (Lib)
Wide Bay	Country	Frank Forde	William Brand (CP)	Frank Falls (CPA)

South Australia

Electorate	Held by	Labor candidate	Liberal candidate	Other candidates

Adelaide	Labor	Cyril Chambers	Nancy Buttfield	Charles McCaffrey (CPA)
Angas	Liberal		Alick Downer
Barker	Liberal	Ralph Dettman	Archie Cameron
Boothby	Liberal	Rex Mathews	John McLeay
Grey	Labor	Edgar Russell	Thomas Cheesman
Hindmarsh	Labor	Clyde Cameron
Kingston	Labor	Pat Galvin	Howard Zelling
Port Adelaide	Labor	Albert Thompson		Alan Finger (CPA)
Sturt	Liberal	Norman Makin	Keith Wilson
Wakefield	Liberal	Edward Harradine	Sir Philip McBride	Hector Henstridge (Ind)

Tasmania

Electorate	Held by	Labor candidate	Liberal candidate	Communist candidate

Bass	Liberal	Lance Barnard	Bruce Kekwick
Darwin	Liberal	Clem Foster	Aubrey Luck
Denison	Liberal	Bert Lacey	Athol Townley	Max Bound
Franklin	Liberal	Jack Frost	Bill Falkinder
Wilmot	Labor	Gil Duthie	Lionel Browning

Victoria

Electorate	Held by	Labor candidate	Coalition candidate	Other candidates

Balaclava	Liberal	Leonard Prior	Percy Joske (Lib)
Ballaarat	Labor	Bob Joshua	Allen Driscoll (Lib)
Batman	Labor	Alan Bird	Neil McKay (Lib)	Andy Wallace (CPA)
Bendigo	Labor	Percy Clarey	John Barton (Lib)
Burke	Labor	Ted Peters	Alfred Wall (Lib)	Vida Little (CPA)
Chisholm	Liberal	Les Cahill	Wilfrid Kent Hughes (Lib)
Corangamite	Liberal	Angus McLean	Dan Mackinnon (Lib)
Corio	Liberal	John Dedman	Hubert Opperman (Lib)
Darebin	Labor	Tom Andrews	Charles White (Lib)
Deakin	Liberal	Gordon Bryant	Frank Davis (Lib)
Fawkner	Labor	Bill Bourke	Peter Howson (Lib)
Flinders	Labor	Keith Ewert	Robert Lindsay (Lib)
Gellibrand	Labor	Jack Mullens	George Carrington (Lib)	Alex Dobbin (CPA)
Gippsland	Country	Syd Crofts	George Bowden (CP)
Henty	Liberal	Alexander Miller	Jo Gullett (Lib)	Noel Schafer (Ind Lib)
Higgins	Liberal	Benjamin Nicholas	Harold Holt (Lib)
Higinbotham	Liberal	Geoffrey Sowerbutts	Frank Timson (Lib)
Hoddle	Labor	Jack Cremean	Desmond Byrne (Lib)	John Prescott (CPA)
Indi	Liberal	Carl Reeves	William Bostock* (Lib) Cyril Davy (CP)
Isaacs	Liberal	Don MacSween	William Haworth (Lib)
Kooyong	Liberal	George Miller	Robert Menzies (Lib)	Rex Mortimer (CPA)
La Trobe	Liberal	Edward Smith	Richard Casey (Lib)	Gerry O'Day (CPA)
Lalor	Labor	Reg Pollard	George Morison (Lib)
Mallee	Country		Winton Turnbull (CP)
Maribyrnong	Labor	Arthur Drakeford	Stuart Collie (Lib)	Frank Johnson (CPA)
McMillan	Liberal	Desmond Devlin	Geoffrey Brown* (Lib) John McDonald (CP)	Bob Hamilton (CPA)
Melbourne	Labor	Arthur Calwell	Alfred Carter (Lib)
Melbourne Ports	Labor	Frank Crean	Norman Fittock (Lib)	Ted Bull (CPA)
Murray	Country		John McEwen (CP)
Wannon	Labor	Don McLeod	Malcolm Fraser (Lib)
Wills	Labor	Bill Bryson	Ian Ingram (Lib)
Wimmera	Liberal	Cyril Sudholz	Herbert Hilton (CP) William Lawrence* (Lib)
Yarra	Labor	Stan Keon	Jim MacDonald (Lib)	Ken Miller (CPA)

Western Australia

Electorate	Held by	Labor candidate	Coalition candidate	Other candidates

Canning	Country	Percy Munday	Len Hamilton (CP)
Curtin	Liberal	Harry Bishop	Paul Hasluck (Lib)
Forrest	Liberal	Frederick O'Connor	Gordon Freeth (Lib)
Fremantle	Labor	Kim Beazley	Douglas McPherson (Lib)	Paddy Troy (CPA)
Kalgoorlie	Labor	Herbert Johnson		Harold Illingworth (Ind)
Moore	Country	Arthur Dargin	Hugh Leslie (CP)
Perth	Labor	Tom Burke	Robert Phillips (Lib)	Carlyle Ferguson (APA) John Gandini (CPA)
Swan	Liberal	Harry Webb	Bill Grayden (Lib)	Jack Marks (CPA)

Summary by party

Beside each party is the number of seats contested by that party in the House of Representatives for each state.

Party	NSW	Vic	Qld	WA	SA	Tas	ACT	NT	Total
Australian Labor Party	44	31	17	8	9	5	1	1	116
Liberal Party of Australia	37	30	10	5	8	5	1		96
Australian Country Party	9	6	8	2				1	26
Communist Party of Australia	18	10	8	3	2	1			42
All Parties Administration				1					1
Independent and other	11	1	2	1	1		1		17

References

Adam Carr's Election Archive - House of Representatives 1954

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