Candidates of the 1943 Australian federal election

This article provides information on candidates who stood for the 1943 Australian federal election. The election was held on 21 August 1943.

In 1941, the Lang Labor supporters had rejoined the Australian Labor Party. Their seats are still designated as Lang Labor seats.

By-elections, appointments and defections

By-elections and appointments

Defections

Retiring Members and Senators

United Australia

Country

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 OPA candidate LDP candidate Other candidates
 
BartonLaborH. V. EvattFrank Browne (UAP)Thomas Claydon (PPP)
CalareLaborJohn BreenReg Edols (CP)
Albert Reid (CP)		Percy PhelanHarold Thorby (Ind)
CookLabor (N-C)Tom SheehanAlbert JonesSid Conway (SL)
Cyril Glassop (PL)
CowperCountryJohn HowardSir Earle Page (CP)Alexander MooreJoseph McElhone (Ind)
DalleyLabor (N-C)Sol RosevearErnest de FariaLance Sharkey (CPA)
DarlingLaborJoe ClarkJames Butler
East SydneyLaborEddie WardVincent Brady (UAP)Ernest CarrHugh AngraveArthur Shirley (Ind)
Eden-MonaroUnited AustraliaAllan FraserJohn Perkins (UAP)Denzil Macarthur-OnslowBill Beale (Ind)
Jonas Crabtree (Ind)
John Egan (Ind)
Cecil Gray (Ind)
GwydirLaborWilliam ScullyColin Gale (CP)William MillsEdmund Daniel (Ind)
HumeCountryArthur FullerThomas Collins (CP)John NeeldVernon Lawrence (Ind)
John McLeod (CPA)
HunterLaborRowley James
LangLabor (N-C)Dan MulcahyWilliam Harris (UAP)John Metcalfe (Ind)
Henry Mulcahy (Ind)
Adam Ogston (CPA)
MacquarieLaborBen ChifleyArthur Hebblewhite (UAP)Albert WalkerMillie Sullivan (Ind CP)
MartinUnited AustraliaFred DalyWilliam McCall (UAP)George MillsGerrard Armstrong (Ind)
Edward Beck (Ind)
Eleanor Glencross (Ind)
John Lee (Ind)
William Milne (Ind Nat)
Rupert Nicholson (Ind UAP)
Albert Sloss (SL)
Isabella Stenning (Ind)
New EnglandCountryHerbert OxfordJoe Abbott (CP)James FowlerCharles Abbott (Ind)
Albert Royal (Ind)
NewcastleLaborDavid WatkinsJames Bayley (Ind)
John Cain (Ind Lab)
Stan Deacon (CPA)
Fred Wright (Ind Lab)
North SydneyUnited AustraliaLeo HaylenBilly Hughes (UAP)Jack LewisEric Bentley (Ind)
Jack Miles (CPA)
Oliver Partington (Ind)
Patrick Williams (Ind)
ParkesUnited AustraliaLes HaylenSir Charles Marr (UAP)Arthur MilesNigel LovePauline Budge (AWP)
Arthur Thompson (Ind)
Francis Wilson (Ind)
ParramattaUnited AustraliaArthur TrebleSir Frederick Stewart (UAP)Ormond BissettRobert Firebrace (NU)
Howard Miscamble (Ind UAP)
Dexter Moore (Ind)
ReidLaborCharles MorganDavid Knox (UAP)Alfred TurnerDick George (Ind UAP)
Jack Hughes (SL)
Jack Lang (LL)
RichmondCountryArthur DoddLarry Anthony (CP)Alfred Anderson
RiverinaLaborJoe LangtryLindsay McIvor (CP)
Russell Scilley (CP)		George SimonsRobert Ballantyne (Ind)
Robert McKenzie (Ind)
Frank Rieck (Ind)
RobertsonUnited AustraliaThomas WilliamsEric Spooner (UAP)Donald BrownWalter Evans (SL)
Roberta Galagher (Ind)
WarringahUnited AustraliaRonald AshworthPercy Spender (UAP)Douglas MorrisEdward Doherty (Ind MCP)
Gerald Robinson (Ind)
Stephen Stack (Ind)
WatsonLaborMax FalsteinNorman Whitfield (UAP)Arthur DudleyLes Fingleton (Ind UAP)
Hubert O'Connell (Ind UAP)
Richard Wilson (SL)
Harry Yates (Ind)
WentworthUnited AustraliaJessie StreetEric Harrison (UAP)Charles MayoBill Wentworth (Nat Gov)
Thomas Whitehouse (Ind)
WerriwaLaborBert LazzariniArthur BrownMichel Kartzoff (Ind)
West SydneyLabor (N-C)Jack BeasleyEddington SherwoodHorace Foley (SL)
Malinda Ivey (Ind)
William McCristal (SCWW)

Northern Territory
Electorate Held by Candidates
 
Northern TerritoryIndependentSydney Barker (Ind)
Adair Blain* (Ind)
Hector Fuller (Ind)
Alexander Grant (Ind)
Bob Murray (Ind Lab)
Jock Nelson (Ind Lab)
Harry Russell (OPA)

Queensland
Electorate Held by Labor candidate Coalition candidate OPA candidate Other candidates
 
BrisbaneLaborGeorge LawsonJohn Fletcher (UAP)Robert BoardmanBruce Pie (Ind)
CapricorniaLaborFrank FordeCharles Ward (UAP)
Darling DownsCountryLeslie BaileyArthur Fadden (CP)Hugh PhairRaymond Mullaly (Ind)
GriffithLaborWilliam ConelanRichard Larking (UAP)John CarbineTheophilus Dunstone (Ind)
William Kingwell (Ind)
HerbertLaborGeorge MartensArchie Graham (CP)Charles Cook (Ind)
Fred Paterson (CPA)
KennedyLaborBill RiordanWilfrid Simmonds (CP)Athena Deane (Ind)
Richard Vane-Millbank (Ind)
LilleyUnited AustraliaJim HadleyWilliam Jolly (UAP)Hans BeiersJames Julin (Ind)
MaranoaLaborFrank BakerCharles Adermann (CP)
MoretonUnited AustraliaPatrick McInallyJohn Cantwell (CP)
Josiah Francis* (UAP)		Ralph Belcham
Wide BayCountryGeorge WatsonBernard Corser* (CP)
James Heading (CP)		Clive Lambourne (Ind)
Henry Madden (Ind)

South Australia
Electorate Held by Labor candidate UAP candidate Other candidates
 
AdelaideUnited AustraliaCyril ChambersFred StaceyAlf Watt (CPA)
George Edwin Yates (Ind Lab)
BarkerCountryHarry KrantzArchie CameronJohn Gartner (Ind)
Frank Halleday (Ind)
BoothbyUnited AustraliaThomas SheehyGrenfell PriceAlan Finger (CPA)
John Turner (CD)
GreyCountryEdgar RussellOliver Badman
HindmarshLaborNorman MakinJames Butler
WakefieldUnited AustraliaAlbert SmithJack Duncan-Hughes

Tasmania
Electorate Held by Labor candidate UAP candidate Other candidates
 
BassLaborClaude BarnardDesmond OldhamHarold Harwood (Ind)
John Orchard (Ind)
John Watson (Ind)
DarwinUnited AustraliaCarrol Bramich
Eric Reece		John Leary
Dame Enid Lyons*
John Wright		Roy Harvey (CPA)
Edgar Nicholls (Ind Lab)
DenisonUnited AustraliaFrank GahaArthur BeckGerald Mahoney (Ind Lab)
George Walliss (CPA)
FranklinLaborCharles FrostCharles Tennant
Denis Warner
WilmotUnited AustraliaErn PinkardAllan GuyJohn McGeary (Ind)

Victoria
Electorate Held by Labor candidate Coalition candidate Other candidates
 
BalaclavaUnited AustraliaJohn BarryThomas White (UAP)Frank Barnes (Ind)
Constance Duncan (Ind)
Helen Maxwell (Prog)
George Morris (Ind)
BallaaratLaborReg PollardBill Roff (UAP)Gordon Irish (Chr Ind)
BatmanLaborFrank BrennanArthur McAdam (UAP)Joseph Cahir (Ind)
Gordon Currie (SP)
Christina Debney (Ind)
Ian Malloch (SCP)
BendigoCountryBert de GrandiGeorge Rankin (CP)William Banks (Ind Lab)
John Crawford (Ind)
Morton Garner (Ind UAP)
BourkeLaborBill BrysonDavid Smith (UAP)Maurice Blackburn (Ind Lab)
John March (Ind)
CorangamiteUnited AustraliaHarold MillerAllan McDonald (UAP)Elsie Brushfield (Ind)
Sydney Donaldson (Ind CP)
CorioLaborJohn DedmanRupert Curnow (UAP)James Baker (Prog)
Neil Freeman (Ind)
DeakinUnited AustraliaFrank WilliamsonWilliam Hutchinson (UAP)Alan Coffey (MCP)
Arthur Coles (Ind)
Robert Elliott (Ind)
Dick Radclyffe (Ind UAP)
FawknerUnited AustraliaThomas JudeHarold Holt (UAP)William Cremor (Ind)
Malcolm Good (CPA)
Charles Kennett (Ind)
Vernon Margetts (Ind)
Ruth Ravenscroft (Ind)
FlindersUnited AustraliaFrank LeeMorton Moyes (CP)
Rupert Ryan* (UAP)		Mabel Brookes (AWP)
Rupert Clark (Ind)
GippslandCountryWally WilliamesGeorge Bowden (CP)Stephen Ashton (Ind Dem)
Herbert Birch (SCP)
Mervyn Morgan (OPA)
HentyIndependentJo Gullett (UAP)Arthur Coles* (Ind)
Carlyle Ferguson (Ind Lib)
Edmund Lind (SCP)
Bernard Rees (Ind Lab)
Ivy Weber (WFCM)
IndiCountryCharles SandfordJohn McEwen (CP)Gerry O'Day (CPA)
KooyongUnited AustraliaAlbert NichollsRobert Menzies (UAP)Ted Laurie (CPA)
John Nimmo (MCP)
Gwendolyn Noad (Chr Ind)
MaribyrnongLaborArthur DrakefordAlbert Pennell (UAP)Kenneth Kenafick (Ind Lab)
Charles Woollacott (CCM)
MelbourneLaborArthur CalwellElizabeth Couchman (UAP)Louis Bickart (MCP)
Charles Dicker (Ind)
Noble Kerby (SP)
Ken Miller (CPA)
Melbourne PortsLaborJack HollowayFrank Preacher (UAP)
WannonLaborDon McLeodJohn Menadue (UAP)
Leonard Rodda (CP)		Thomas Scholfield (Ind UAP)
WimmeraIndependentHerbert Follett (Ind)
Eric Phillips (Ind CP)
Reginald Skeat (Ind CP)
Albert Thompson (Ind CP)
Alexander Wilson* (Ind)
YarraLaborJames ScullinGilbert Jenkin (UAP)Ralph Gibson (CPA)
William Jinkins (SCP)
Allan MacDonald (Ind)

Western Australia
Electorate Held by Labor candidate Coalition candidate Other candidates
 
ForrestCountryNelson LemmonJohn Prowse (CP)Ian Fergusson-Stewart (Ind)
Wilfred Lewis (Ind)
Arthur West (Ind CP)
FremantleLaborJohn CurtinAlex Bracks (UAP)Frederick Lee (Ind Nat)
KalgoorlieLaborHerbert JohnsonLance Horley (UAP)
Ralph Shaw (UAP)		Kevin Healy (CPA)
William McGhie (Ind)
PerthUnited AustraliaTom BurkeWalter Nairn (UAP)Clarrie Boyd (CPA)
Dorothea Foster (Ind)
Stephenson Fox (Ind)
Thomas Groves (Ind)
William Herbert (Ind)
Thomas Hughes (Ind)
Robert Nicholson (Ind)
SwanCountryDon MountjoyCecil Elsegood (CP)
Thomas Marwick (CP)		John Tregenza (Ind)

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. Labor Senators James Arnold, Bill Ashley and William Large were not up for re-election.

Labor candidates Coalition candidates OPA candidates CNOM candidates Ungrouped candidates
 
  1. Stan Amour*
  2. John Armstrong*
  3. Donald Grant*
  1. Guy Arkins (UAP)
  2. Dick Dein (UAP)
  3. Horace Nock (CP)
  1. Harold Sterling
  2. William O'Sullivan
  3. Sylvan Deloraine
  1. Peter Pollack
  2. Julius Burnham
  3. George Southern

Ada Beveridge (Ind)
Francis Walter (Ind)
Gilbert Leitch (Ind)
Valdemar Olling (Ind)
Tom Arthur (Ind)
Claude Sugden (Ind Lab)
Edith Cook (Ind)

Queensland

Three seats were up for election. The Labor Party was defending three seats. United Australia Party Senators Thomas Crawford and Harry Foll and Country Party Senator Walter Cooper were not up for re-election.

Labor candidates UAP candidates Country candidates Ungrouped candidates
 
  1. Gordon Brown*
  2. Joe Collings*
  3. Ben Courtice*
  1. Charles Brown
  2. Paul Goldenstedt
  3. James McDonald
  1. James Annand
  2. Bob McGeoch
  3. Charles Ware

James Kidman
Walter Hughes

South Australia

Three seats were up for election. The United Australia Party was defending three seats. United Australia Party Senators James McLachlan, George McLeay and Oliver Uppill were not up for re-election.

Labor candidates UAP candidates
 
  1. Sid O'Flaherty*
  2. Theo Nicholls*
  3. Alex Finlay*
  1. Philip McBride
  2. Keith Wilson
  3. Ted Mattner

Tasmania

Three seats were up for election. The Labor Party was defending three seats. United Australia Party Senators John Hayes, Herbert Hays and Burford Sampson were not up for re-election.

Labor candidates UAP candidates
 
  1. Bill Aylett*
  2. Charles Lamp*
  3. Nick McKenna*
  4. Richard Darcey
  5. George Carruthers
  1. Bayard Edgell
  2. Algie Findlay
  3. Peregrine Andrews
  4. Darrel Tait
  5. Bruce Hamilton
  6. Frank Edwards

Victoria

Three seats were up for election. The Labor Party was defending two seats. The United Australia Party was defending one seat. United Australia Party Senators Charles Brand and John Leckie and Country Party Senator William Gibson were not up for re-election.

Labor candidates Coalition candidates Monetary Reform candidates Ungrouped candidates
 
  1. Don Cameron*
  2. Richard Keane*
  3. Jim Sheehan*
  1. Sir Frank Beaurepaire (UAP)
  2. William Moss (CP)
  3. John Spicer (UAP)
  1. Vera Carr
  2. Alexander Amess
  3. Bartholomew Goulding

John Smith
Rupert Millane
Edith Hardy

Western Australia

Four seats were up for election. One of these was a short-term vacancy caused by Country Party Senator Bertie Johnston's death; this was filled in the interim by the Country Party's Charles Latham. The Labor Party was defending three seats. The Country Party was defending one seat. United Australia Party Senators Herbert Collett and Allan MacDonald were not up for re-election.

Labor candidates Coalition candidates Ungrouped candidates
 
  1. James Fraser*
  2. Robert Clothier*
  3. Richard Nash*
  4. Dorothy Tangney*
  1. Thomas Louch (UAP)
  2. John Teasdale (UAP)
  3. Jim Paton (UAP)
  4. Charles Latham (CP)

Cropper Milligan
Colin Unwin
Claude Swaine

See also

References
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