Candidates of the 1934 Australian federal election

This article provides information on candidates who stood for the 1934 Australian federal election. The election was held on 15 September 1934.

By-elections, appointments and defections

By-elections and appointments

Defections

Redistributions and seat changes

Retiring Members and Senators

Labor

United Australia

Country

Independent

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.

New South Wales

Electorate Held by Labor candidate Coalition candidate Labor (NSW) candidate Other candidates
 
BartonUnited AustraliaAlbert WillisAlbert Lane (UAP)John EldridgePat Drew (CPA)
John Macara (SC)
CalareCountryReginald PhillipsLewis Nott (UAP)
Harold Thorby* (CP)
William KeastEthel Arthur-Smith (SC)
CookLaborEdward RileyFrancis Donnan (UAP)Jock GardenFlorence Cochrane (SC)
Tom Wright (CPA)
CowperCountryEarle Page (CP)William McCristalHereward Kesteven (SC)
DalleyLabor (NSW)William ThompsonWilliam Nicol (UAP)Sol RosevearJervis Blackman (Ind Lab)
Henry Giles (SC)
James McPhee (CPA)
DarlingLaborArthur BlakeleyPaul Goldenstedt (CP)Joe ClarkStuart Coombe (CPA)
East SydneyLabor (NSW)George LaughlanArthur Butterell (UAP)Eddie WardBill McDougall (CPA)
Eden-MonaroUnited AustraliaLeo O'SullivanJohn Perkins (UAP)Charles Johnston
GwydirCountryArthur GriffithAubrey Abbott (CP)Edward Cummins
HumeCountryGerald O'SullivanThomas Collins (CP)Essell Hoad
HunterLabor (NSW)Thomas LedsamRowley JamesHenry Scanlon (CPA)
LangLabor (NSW)Allan HowieCharles Robinson (UAP)Dan MulcahyColin Barclay-Smith (SC)
Rufus Naylor (Ind)
MacquarieUnited AustraliaBen ChifleyJohn Lawson (UAP)Tony LuchettiJock Jamieson (CPA)
Edward Smythe (SC)
MartinUnited AustraliaJohn McCallum
Henry McDicken
William McCall (UAP)Charles HankinWilliam Stones (SC)
New EnglandCountryPatrick Cantwell (UAP)
Victor Thompson* (CP)
John O'Connor
NewcastleLaborDavid WatkinsJames SmithSidney Bethune (CPA)
North SydneyUnited AustraliaBilly Hughes (UAP)Stan TaylorVincent Kelly (SC)
ParkesUnited AustraliaCharles Marr (UAP)Leo TaylorHarold Bondeson (SC)
ParramattaUnited AustraliaJohn KeeganFrederick Stewart (UAP)John GarvanHoward Miscamble (SC)
ReidLabor (NSW)Albert RoweWilliam Moore (UAP)Joe GanderHarry Barnes (SC)
John Terry (CPA)
RichmondCountryJim Eggins (CP)
Robert Gibson (CP)
Roland Green* (CP)
Jim Fredericks
RiverinaCountryJohn CusackHorace Nock (CP)Edward O'Neill
RobertsonUnited AustraliaWilliam Fleming (CP)
Sydney Gardner* (UAP)
Campbell Marshall (CP)
Gordon Cross
WarringahUnited AustraliaArchdale Parkhill (UAP)Bessie FrewinRobert Pearson (SC)
WatsonUnited AustraliaWilliam MurphyJohn Jennings (UAP)Joe LamaroVincent Murtagh (SC)
WentworthUnited AustraliaEric Harrison (UAP)James OrmondeRalph Fretwell (SC)
WerriwaCountryThomas LavelleThomas Mutch (UAP)Bert LazzariniBill Blake (CPA)
West SydneyLabor (NSW)Clarrie CampbellHenry Wood (UAP)Jack BeasleyRobert Brechin (CPA)
Frederick Taylor (SC)

Northern Territory

Electorate Held by Labor candidate Communist candidate Independent candidate
 
Northern TerritoryLaborHarold NelsonCharles PriestAdair Blain

Queensland

Electorate Held by Labor candidate Coalition candidate Other candidates
 
BrisbaneLaborGeorge LawsonNeil O'Sullivan (UAP)Bert Hurworth (CPA)
Patrick Madden (SC)
CapricorniaLaborFrank FordeJohn O'Shanesy (UAP)
Darling DownsIndependentPhil AlkeSir Littleton Groom (UAP)
GriffithLaborFrank BakerGeorge Mocatta (UAP)Julius Streeter (SC)
HerbertLaborGeorge MartensRon Muir (UAP)Jack Henry (CPA)
Claude Vesperman (LL)
KennedyLaborDarby RiordanJim Clarke (UAP)Jim Slater (CPA)
LilleyUnited AustraliaBert TurnerSir Donald Cameron (UAP)Clayton Keir (Ind SC)
MaranoaCountryDuncan WatsonJames Hunter (CP)William Argaet (SC)
MoretonUnited AustraliaJack PerrettJosiah Francis (UAP)William Worley (SC)
Wide BayCountryGeorge WebbBernard Corser (CP)Colin Hennessy (CPA)
Geoffrey Nichols (SC)

South Australia

Electorate Held by Labor candidate Coalition candidate Other candidates
 
AdelaideUnited AustraliaKen BardolphFred Stacey (UAP)Alec Bagot (Ind)
Frank Blake (Ind Lab)
Ernest Hergstrom (SC)
Arthur McArthur (Ind Lab)
BarkerUnited AustraliaCecil SkitchArchie Cameron (CP)John Maycock (SC)
BoothbyUnited AustraliaDavid FraserJohn Price* (UAP)
Keith Wilson (UAP)
Charles Barnard (Ind)
James Lumbers (Ind)
Norman Truscott (SC)
GreyUnited AustraliaMichael MurphyPhilip McBride (UAP)Alfred Barns (Ind)
HindmarshLaborNorman MakinCharles Brock (SC)
Ernest Evans (Ind)
Tom Garland (CPA)
WakefieldUnited AustraliaMichael SmedleyCharles Hawker (UAP)Will Duggan (SC)

Tasmania

Electorate Held by Labor candidate UAP candidate Other candidates
 
BassUnited AustraliaClaude BarnardAllan GuyGeorge McElwee (Ind)
John Watson (Ind)
DarwinUnited AustraliaEdwin BrownGeorge Bell
DenisonUnited AustraliaRichard Darcey
John Lattin
Gerald Mahoney*
Walter Woods
Arthur HutchinJames Guthrie (SC)
FranklinUnited AustraliaCharles FrostArchibald BlacklowGeorge Frankcombe (CP)
John Modridge (SC)
WilmotUnited AustraliaJoseph LyonsHenry Bye (SC)
William Laird Smith (SC)

Victoria

Electorate Held by Labor candidate Coalition candidate Other candidates
 
BalaclavaUnited AustraliaMichael NolanThomas White (UAP)
BallaaratUnited AustraliaWilliam McAdamArchibald Fisken (UAP)Fred Edmunds (Ind UAP)
BatmanUnited AustraliaFrank BrennanSamuel Dennis (UAP)
BendigoUnited AustraliaRichard KeaneEric Harrison (UAP)
BourkeLaborMaurice BlackburnHenry Stubbs (UAP)Robert McCrae (CPA)
CorangamiteCountryArthur HaywoodGordon Bristow (ACP)
Gordon McGregor (ACP)
Geoffrey Street* (UAP)
Bevis Walters (Ind)
CorioUnited AustraliaJohn DedmanRichard Casey (UAP)William Morrison (CPA)
EchucaCountryWilliam HartshorneJohn McEwen* (UCP)
William Moss (ACP)
Galloway Stewart (ACP)
FawknerUnited AustraliaWilliam SmithGeorge Maxwell (UAP)Frederick Paice (SC)
FlindersUnited AustraliaJoseph HannanJames Fairbairn* (UAP)
William Fullerton (CP)
Ralph Gibson (CPA)
GippslandCountryReg PollardThomas Paterson (ACP)
HentyUnited AustraliaWilliam TurnerSir Henry Gullett (UAP)Alexander Steele (Ind Nat)
Lockhart Stewart (SC)
IndiUnited AustraliaPaul JonesVernon Davies (UCP)
William Hutchinson* (UAP)
KooyongUnited AustraliaMaurice KellyRobert Menzies (UAP)Leslie Hollins (SC)
MaribyrnongUnited AustraliaArthur DrakefordJames Fenton (UAP)Alexander Amess (SC)
Jack Blake (CPA)
MelbourneLaborWilliam MaloneyFrancis Nelson (UAP)
Melbourne PortsLaborJack HollowayJames Laurence (UAP)William Clarke (Soc Lab)
WannonUnited AustraliaDon McLeodHenry Bailey (UCP)
Thomas Scholfield* (UAP)
WimmeraCountryHugh McClelland* (ACP)
William Morgan (UAP)
Les Simpson (UCP)
Gordon Anderson (STL)
YarraLaborJames ScullinHarold Holt (UAP)Ernie Thornton (CPA)

Western Australia

Electorate Held by Labor candidate Coalition candidate Other candidates
 
ForrestCountryEdwin DaviesCecil Elsegood (CP)
John Prowse* (CP)
Harry Squance (SC)
FremantleUnited AustraliaJohn CurtinFlorence Cardell-Oliver (UAP)William Buchan (SC)
KalgoorlieLaborAlbert Green
PerthUnited AustraliaHerb GrahamWalter Nairn (UAP)Carlyle Ferguson (Ind Lib)
Tom Hartrey (WA Nat)
SwanCountryFrederick LawHenry Gregory (CP)

Senate

Sitting Senators are shown in bold text. Tickets that elected at least one Senator are highlighted in the relevant colour. Successful candidates are identified by an asterisk (*).

New South Wales

Three seats were up for election. The Labor Party was defending three seats (although Senators Dunn and Rae had joined the Lang Labor breakaway). United Australia Party Senators Charles Cox and Sir Walter Massy-Greene and Country Party Senator Charles Hardy were not up for re-election.

Labor candidates Coalition candidates NSW Labor candidates Social Credit candidates Other candidates
 
Gordon Anderson
John Dooley
Alex Hogan
Mac Abbott* (CP)
Lionel Courtenay* (UAP)
Dick Dein* (UAP)
James Dunn
Patrick Mooney
Arthur Rae
Stanley Allen
Lillie Beirne
John White
Lance Sharkey (CPA)

Queensland

Three seats were up for election. The United Australia Party was defending three seats. Labor Senators Gordon Brown, Joe Collings and John MacDonald were not up for re-election.

Labor candidates Coalition candidates Social Credit candidates Other candidates
 
Frank Byrne
Robert Carroll
Lewis McDonald
Walter Cooper* (CP)
Thomas Crawford* (UAP)
Harry Foll* (UAP)
John Harding
William Hartley
Joanna Helbach
Theo Kissick (Ind Lab)
Fred Paterson (CPA)
Sydney Williams (LL)

South Australia

Three seats were up for election. The Labor Party was defending three seats. United Australia Party Senators Jack Duncan-Hughes and Alexander McLachlan and Country Party Senator Oliver Badman were not up for re-election.

Labor candidates UAP candidates Other candidates
 
Edgar Dawes
Bert Hoare
Mick O'Halloran
James McLachlan*
George McLeay*
Oliver Uppill*
Ted Moyle (CPA)

Tasmania

Three seats were up for election. The United Australia Party was defending three seats. Note that, apart from Group A, all candidates appeared in the ungrouped column. United Australia Party Senators John Millen, Herbert Payne and Burford Sampson were not up for re-election.

Labor candidates UAP candidates Group A candidates Other candidates
 
Eric Howroyd
Henry Lane
John Palamountain
Basil Plummer
Andrew Cooper
Charles Grant*
John Hayes*
Herbert Hays*
William Judd
Henry McFie
Percy Best
Stephen Broad
Alfred Seabrook
William Daft (CPA)

Victoria

Three seats were up for election. The United Australia Party-Country Party Coalition was defending two seats. The Labor Party was defending one seat. United Australia Party Senators Tom Brennan, James Guthrie and William Plain were not up for re-election.

Labor candidates Coalition candidates Other candidates
 
John Barnes
Charlie Crofts
Parker Moloney
Charles Brand* (UAP)
William Gibson* (CP)
John Leckie* (UAP)
Robert Elliott (Ind)
Gerry O'Day (CPA)

Western Australia

Three seats were up for election. The United Australia Party-Country Party Coalition was defending three seats. United Australia Party Senators Patrick Lynch and Sir George Pearce and Country Party Senator William Carroll were not up for re-election.

Labor candidates Coalition candidates Social Credit candidates Other candidates
 
Reginald Bourke
Louis Greive
Edward Holman
Herbert Collett* (UAP)
Bertie Johnston* (CP)
Allan MacDonald* (UAP)
John Clements
Ormond Cook
Alfred Jacobs
Richard Fitzgerald (Nat. Sec.)
Bill Mountjoy (CPA)
Edwin Murphy (Ind)
Oliver Strang (Nat. Sec.)

See also

References

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