Candidates of the 1925 Australian federal election

This article provides information on candidates who stood for the 1925 Australian federal election. The election was held on 14 November 1925.

By-elections, appointments and defections

By-elections and appointments

• On 12 September 1923, John Hayes (Nationalist) was appointed as a Tasmanian Senator to succeed Thomas Bakhap (Nationalist).
• On 17 October 1923, Walter Massy-Greene (Nationalist) was appointed as a New South Wales Senator to succeed Edward Millen (Nationalist).
• On 22 July 1924, Joseph Hannan (Labor) was appointed as a Victorian Senator to succeed Stephen Barker (Labor).
• On 10 November 1924, Jack Power (Labor) appointed as a New South Wales Senator to succeed Allan McDougall (Labor).
• On 1 April 1925, William Gibbs (Labor) was appointed as a New South Wales Senator succeed Jack Power (Labor).
• On 29 July 1925, Charles Grant (Nationalist) was appointed as a Tasmanian Senator to succeed George Foster (Nationalist).
• On 25 August 1925, William Plain (Nationalist) was appointed as a Victorian Senator to succeed Edward Russell (Nationalist).
• On 13 November 1925, the day before the election, Charles McDonald (Labor, Kennedy) died, leaving his seat to be won unopposed by the Nationalist candidate.
• Subsequent to the election, but prior to the new Senate taking its place:
  • On 18 December 1925, Sir Henry Barwell (Nationalist) was appointed as a South Australian Senator to replace James O'Loghlin (Labor).
  • On 24 February 1926, Alexander McLachlan (Nationalist was appointed as a South Australian Senator to replace Benjamin Benny (Nationalist).

Defections

• After Prime Minister Billy Hughes's resignation in 1923, the five Liberal Party members – Malcolm Cameron (Barker), Jack Duncan-Hughes (Boothby), Richard Foster (Wakefield), John Latham (Kooyong) and William Watt (Balaclava) – rejoined the Nationalist Party.
• In 1925, Country MP Percy Stewart (Wimmera) resigned from the party. He contested his seat as an Independent Country candidate.

Retiring Members and Senators

Labor

• Senator William Gibbs (NSW)

Nationalist

• Fred Bamford MP (Herbert, Qld)
• Frederick Francis MP (Henty, Vic)
• Senator Benjamin Benny (SA) (see also above)
• Senator Edmund Drake-Brockman (WA)

Country

• Joshua Whitsitt MP (Darwin, Tas)

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	Other candidates
Barton	Labor	Frederick McDonald	Thomas Ley (Nat)
Calare	Nationalist	William Webster	Sir Neville Howse (Nat)	William Southwick (Ind)
Cook	Labor	Edward Riley	Arthur Philip (Nat)
Cowper	Country	Lockhart Easton	Earle Page (CP)
Dalley	Labor	William Mahony	James Thomson (Nat)
Darling	Labor	Arthur Blakeley	John Dowling (Nat)
East Sydney	Labor	John West	Richard Orchard (Nat)
Eden-Monaro	Nationalist	Charles Morgan	Sir Austin Chapman (Nat)
Gwydir	Labor	Lou Cunningham	Aubrey Abbott* (CP) Joseph McGowan (Nat)
Hume	Labor	Parker Moloney	Angus Campbell (Nat) Victor Miers (CP)
Hunter	Labor	Matthew Charlton	Alfred Horsfall (Nat)
Lang	Nationalist	George Smith	Sir Elliot Johnson (Nat)
Macquarie	Nationalist	Ben Chifley	Arthur Manning (Nat)
Martin	Nationalist	Henry McDicken	Herbert Pratten (Nat)
New England	Country	John Heiss	Victor Thompson (CP)
Newcastle	Labor	David Watkins	George Waller (Nat)
North Sydney	Nationalist	Joe Lamaro	Billy Hughes (Nat)
Parkes	Nationalist	William Dunn	Charles Marr (Nat)
Parramatta	Nationalist	James Stone	Eric Bowden (Nat)
Reid	Labor	Percy Coleman	Percy Shortland (Nat)
Richmond	Country	Harry Green	Roland Green* (CP) Joseph Greene (Nat) John Williams (CP)
Riverina	Country	Essell Hoad	William Killen (CP)
Robertson	Nationalist	Gordon Cross	Sydney Gardner (Nat)
South Sydney	Labor	Edward Riley	George Baker (Nat)
Warringah	Nationalist	Thomas Conway	Sir Granville Ryrie (Nat)
Wentworth	Nationalist	William Crick	Walter Marks (Nat)
Werriwa	Labor	Bert Lazzarini	Sir Charles Rosenthal (Nat)
West Sydney	Labor	William Lambert	Lindsay Thompson (Nat)

Northern Territory

Electorate	Held by	Labor candidate	Nationalist candidate
Northern Territory	Labor	Harold Nelson	Charles Story

Queensland

Electorate	Held by	Labor candidate	Coalition candidate	Other candidates
Brisbane	Nationalist	John Fihelly	Donald Cameron (Nat)	Herbert Collie (Ind Lab)
Capricornia	Labor	Frank Forde	William Doherty (CP)
Darling Downs	Nationalist	Duncan McInnes	Sir Littleton Groom (Nat)
Herbert	Nationalist	Ted Theodore	Lewis Nott (Nat)
Kennedy	Labor		Grosvenor Francis (Nat)
Lilley	Nationalist	John Mattingley	George Mackay (Nat)
Maranoa	Country	Samuel Brassington	James Hunter (CP)
Moreton	Nationalist	Horace Lee	Josiah Francis (Nat)
Oxley	Nationalist	James Sharpe	James Bayley (Nat)
Wide Bay	Nationalist	Andrew Thompson	Edward Corser (Nat)

South Australia

Electorate	Held by	Labor candidate	Nationalist candidate
Adelaide	Labor	George Edwin Yates	George McLeay
Angas	Labor	Moses Gabb	Walter Parsons
Barker	Liberal	Alwyn Roberts	Malcolm Cameron
Boothby	Liberal	Harry Kneebone	Jack Duncan-Hughes
Grey	Labor	Andrew Lacey	John Lyons
Hindmarsh	Labor	Norman Makin	John Verran
Wakefield	Liberal	Even George	Richard Foster

Tasmania

Electorate	Held by	Labor candidate	Nationalist candidate	Country candidate
Bass	Nationalist	Harold Holmes John Swain	Syd Jackson
Darwin	Country	Henry Lane	George Bell* Hubert Nichols
Denison	Labor	David O'Keefe	Sir John Gellibrand
Franklin	Nationalist	Eric Ogilvie Douglas Thompson	William McWilliams Alfred Seabrook*
Wilmot	Country	Jens Jensen	Percy Best Atherfield Newman	Llewellyn Atkinson

Victoria

Electorate	Held by	Labor candidate	Coalition candidate	Other candidates
Balaclava	Liberal	John McKellar	William Watt (Nat)
Ballaarat	Labor	Charles McGrath	Thomas Ryan (Nat)
Batman	Labor	Frank Brennan	Samuel Dennis (Nat)
Bendigo	Nationalist	Thomas Jude	Geoffry Hurry (Nat)
Bourke	Labor	Frank Anstey	Edward Price (Nat)
Corangamite	Country	William Nicol	William Gibson (CP)
Corio	Nationalist	Peter Randles	John Lister (Nat)
Echuca	Country	Patrick O'Hanlon	William Hill (CP)
Fawkner	Nationalist	Alfred Foster	George Maxwell (Nat)
Flinders	Nationalist	Roy Beardsworth	Stanley Bruce (Nat)
Gippsland	Country	James Bermingham	Thomas Paterson (CP)	George Wise (Ind Nat)
Henty	Nationalist	Edward Stewart	Henry Gullett (Nat)	Donald Mackinnon (Ind Nat)
Indi	Country	David Black	Robert Cook (CP)
Kooyong	Liberal	Lionel Batten	John Latham (Nat)
Maribyrnong	Labor	James Fenton	Thomas White (Nat)
Melbourne	Labor	William Maloney	William Hendry (Nat)
Melbourne Ports	Labor	James Mathews	Frank Wilcher (Nat)
Wannon	Labor	John McNeill	David Anderson (CP) Arthur Rodgers* (Nat)
Wimmera	Country			Lucas de Garis (Ind) Percy Stewart* (Ind CP)
Yarra	Labor	James Scullin	Marcus Towler (Nat)

Western Australia

Electorate	Held by	Labor candidate	Coalition candidate	Independent candidate(s)
Forrest	Country	Thomas Lowry	John Prowse (CP)
Fremantle	Independent	John Curtin		William Watson
Kalgoorlie	Labor	Albert Green	John Mullany (Nat)
Perth	Nationalist	Dick Lane	Edward Mann (Nat)
Swan	Country	Ben Davies	Henry 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

Five seats were up for election. Two of these were for short-term vacancies: one caused by Nationalist Senator Edward Millen's death, which had been filled in the interim by Nationalist Walter Massy-Greene; and the other caused by Labor Senator Allan McDougall's death, which had been filled first by Jack Power and then by William Gibbs, both members of the Labor Party. The Labor Party was defending two seats. The Nationalist Party was defending three seats. Labor Senator John Grant was not up for re-election.

Labor candidates	Coalition candidates
John Dooley James Dunn John Eldridge Albert Gardiner Donald Grant	Percy Abbott* (CP) Charles Cox* (Nat) Walter Duncan* (Nat) Walter Massy-Greene* (Nat) Josiah Thomas* (Nat)

Queensland

Three seats were up for election. The Nationalist Party was defending three seats. Nationalist Senators Thomas Crawford, Harry Foll and Matthew Reid were not up for re-election.

Labor candidates	Nationalist candidates
Harald Jensen Jim Riordan Harry Turley	Thomas Givens* Sir William Glasgow* William Thompson*

South Australia

Three seats were up for election. The Nationalist Party was defending three seats. Labor Senators Bert Hoare, Charles McHugh and James O'Loghlin were not up for re-election.

Labor candidates	Coalition candidates
John Daly Herbert George Frank Lundie	John Chapman* (CP) Alexander McLachlan* (Nat) John Newland* (Nat) Victor Wilson (Nat)

Tasmania

Four seats were up for election. One of these was a short-term vacancy caused by Nationalist Senator Thomas Bakhap's death; this had been filled in the interim by Nationalist John Hayes. The Nationalist Party was defending four seats. Labor Senator James Ogden and Nationalist Senator Herbert Hays were not up for re-election.

Labor candidates	Nationalist candidates
Richard Crouch Alfred Higgins William Lloyd James McDonald Thomas Wilson	John Earle Charles Grant John Hayes* John Millen* John Ockerby Herbert Payne* Burford Sampson*

Victoria

Four seats were up for election. One of these was a short-term vacancy caused by Labor Senator Stephen Barker's death; this had been filled in the interim by Labor's Joseph Hannan. The Nationalist Party was defending three seats. The Labor Party was defending one seat. Labor Senators John Barnes and Edward Findley were not up for re-election.

Labor candidates	Coalition candidates
Albert Blakey Joseph Hannan Jack Holloway Richard Keane	David Andrew* (CP) Harold Elliott* (Nat) James Guthrie* (Nat) William Plain* (Nat)

Western Australia

Three seats were up for election. The Nationalist Party was defending three seats. Labor Senators Charles Graham and Ted Needham and Nationalist Senator Walter Kingsmill were not up for re-election.

Labor candidates	Coalition candidates	Independent candidates
Ernest Barker Andrew Clementson James Kenneally	William Carroll* (CP) Patrick Lynch* (Nat) George Pearce* (Nat)	James Crawford

See also

• 1925 Australian federal election
• Members of the Australian House of Representatives, 1922–1925
• Members of the Australian House of Representatives, 1925–1928
• Members of the Australian Senate, 1923–1926
• Members of the Australian Senate, 1926–1929
• List of political parties in Australia

References

• Adam Carr's Election Archive - House of Representatives 1925
• Adam Carr's Election Archive - Senate 1925