Candidates of the 1928 Australian federal election

This article provides information on candidates who ran in the 1928 Australian federal election. The election was held on 17 November 1928.

By-elections, appointments and defections

By-elections and appointments

• On 6 March 1926, John Perkins (Nationalist) was elected to succeed Sir Austin Chapman (Nationalist) as the member for Eden-Monaro.
• On 26 February 1927, Ted Theodore (Labor) was elected to succeed William Mahony (Labor) as the member for Dalley.
• On 21 May 1927, Archdale Parkhill (Nationalist) was elected to succeed Sir Granville Ryrie (Nationalist) as the member for Warringah.
• On 30 August 1927, John Verran (Nationalist) was appointed as a South Australian Senator to succeed Charles McHugh (Labor).
• On 18 April 1928, Albert Robinson (Nationalist) was appointed as a South Australian Senator to succeed Sir Henry Barwell (Nationalist).
• On 5 June 1928, Albert Gardiner (Labor) was appointed as a New South Wales Senator to succeed John Grant (Labor).
• On 16 June 1928, Graham Pratten (Nationalist) was elected to succeed Herbert Pratten (Nationalist) as the member for Martin.
• On 1 August 1928, John MacDonald (Labor) was appointed as a Queensland Senator to replace Thomas Givens (Nationalist).
• On 3 September 1928, Bernard Corser (Country) was elected unopposed to succeed Edward Corser (Nationalist) as the member for Wide Bay.
• On 6 September 1928, William Lambert (Labor), the member for West Sydney, died. No by-election was held due to the proximity of the election.
• Subsequent to the election, but prior the new Senate taking its place:
  • On 18 December 1928, Richard Abbott (Country) was appointed as a Victorian Senator to replace David Andrew (Country).

Defections

• In 1925, Labor Senator James Ogden (Tasmania) was expelled from the party and joined the Nationalist Party.
• In 1928, Country MP Llewellyn Atkinson (Wilmot) defected to the Nationalist Party.

Seat changes

• Senator Albert Gardiner (Independent Labor) contested Dalley.

Retiring Members and Senators

Labor

• Matthew Charlton MP (Hunter, NSW)

Country

• Robert Cook MP (Indi, Vic) — forgot to nominate himself, leaving his seat to the Labor candidate unopposed.
• Senator David Andrew (Vic)

Independent

• William Watson MP (Fremantle, WA)

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	Nationalist	James Tully	Thomas Ley (Nat)
Calare	Nationalist	James O'Donnell	Sir Neville Howse (Nat)
Cook	Labor	Edward Riley	Humphrey Earl (Nat)
Cowper	Country	Tom Swiney	Earle Page (CP)
Dalley	Labor	Ted Theodore	Hedley Rogers (Nat)	Albert Gardiner (Ind Lab)
Darling	Labor	Arthur Blakeley	Frederick Drury (Nat)
East Sydney	Labor	John West	Julian Simpson (Nat)
Eden-Monaro	Nationalist	John Cusack	John Perkins (Nat)
Gwydir	Country	Lou Cunningham	Aubrey Abbott (CP)
Hume	Labor	Parker Moloney	William Fleming (CP) Jack Garry (Nat)
Hunter	Labor	Rowley James	Ernest Carr (Nat)	Jim Brown (Ind Lab)
Lang	Nationalist	William Long	Sir Elliot Johnson (Nat)
Macquarie	Nationalist	Ben Chifley	Arthur Manning (Nat)
Martin	Nationalist	Percy Hannett	Graham Pratten (Nat)
New England	Country		Victor Thompson (CP)
Newcastle	Labor	David Watkins		Walter Skelton (PLP)
North Sydney	Nationalist	Ben Howe	Billy Hughes (Nat)
Parkes	Nationalist	George Sherringham	Charles Marr (Nat)
Parramatta	Nationalist	Albert Rowe	Eric Bowden (Nat)
Reid	Labor	Percy Coleman	George Tomlinson (Nat)
Richmond	Country		Roland Green (CP)
Riverina	Country	Joseph Casserly	William Killen (CP)
Robertson	Nationalist		Sydney Gardner (Nat)
South Sydney	Labor	Edward Riley	George Baker (Nat)
Warringah	Nationalist		Archdale Parkhill (Nat)
Wentworth	Nationalist	Bob O'Halloran	Walter Marks (Nat)
Werriwa	Labor	Bert Lazzarini	Herbert Ogilvie (Nat)
West Sydney	Labor	Jack Beasley	Alfred Benjamin (Nat)

Northern Territory

Electorate	Held by	Labor candidate	Other candidate(s)
Northern Territory	Labor	Harold Nelson	Arthur Love (Ind Lab) Douglas Watts (Ind)

Queensland

Electorate	Held by	Labor candidate	Coalition candidate
Brisbane	Nationalist	Frank Burke	Donald Cameron (Nat)
Capricornia	Labor	Frank Forde	Robert Staines (CP)
Darling Downs	Nationalist		Sir Littleton Groom (Nat)
Herbert	Nationalist	George Martens	Lewis Nott (Nat)
Kennedy	Nationalist	Jim Riordan	Grosvenor Francis (Nat)
Lilley	Nationalist		George Mackay (Nat)
Maranoa	Country	Jack Reid	James Hunter (CP)
Moreton	Nationalist		Josiah Francis (Nat)
Oxley	Nationalist	Francis Baker	James Bayley (Nat)
Wide Bay	Country		Bernard Corser (CP)

South Australia

Electorate	Held by	Labor candidate	Coalition candidate	Independent candidate(s)
Adelaide	Labor	George Edwin Yates	George McLeay (Nat)
Angas	Nationalist	Michael Woods	Walter Parsons (Nat)
Barker	Nationalist		Malcolm Cameron* (Nat) Ronald Hunt (CP)
Boothby	Nationalist	John Price	Jack Duncan-Hughes (Nat)
Grey	Labor	Andrew Lacey	William Blight (Nat)
Hindmarsh	Labor	Norman Makin	Henry Dunks (Nat)	Ross Graham
Wakefield	Nationalist		Maurice Collins* (CP) Richard Foster (Nat)

Tasmania

Electorate	Held by	Labor candidate	Nationalist candidate	Independent candidate(s)
Bass	Nationalist	Thomas Wilson	Syd Jackson* William Judd
Darwin	Nationalist		George Bell	James Campbell
Denison	Nationalist	Charles Culley* Thomas Jude	Sir John Gellibrand
Franklin	Nationalist		Francis Foster Alfred Seabrook	William McWilliams
Wilmot	Nationalist		Llewellyn Atkinson* Hector McFie	George Flowers

Victoria

Electorate	Held by	Labor candidate	Coalition candidate	Other candidates
Balaclava	Nationalist		William Watt (Nat)	Edward Price (Ind Nat)
Ballaarat	Labor	Charles McGrath	Matthew Baird (Nat)
Batman	Labor	Frank Brennan	Angus McDonald (Nat)
Bendigo	Nationalist	James McDonald	Geoffry Hurry* (Nat) Cyril James (CP)
Bourke	Labor	Frank Anstey	Leonard Smith (Nat)
Corangamite	Country	Richard Crouch	William Gibson (CP)
Corio	Nationalist	Peter Randles	John Lister (Nat)
Echuca	Country		William Hill (CP)	Frederick Churches (CPP)
Fawkner	Nationalist	Nicholas Roberts	George Maxwell (Nat)
Flinders	Nationalist	Jack Holloway	Stanley Bruce (Nat)	Clarence Robertson (Ind Nat)
Gippsland	Country		Thomas Paterson (CP)	George Wise (Ind Lib)
Henty	Nationalist	Edward Stewart	Henry Gullett (Nat)
Indi	Country	Paul Jones
Kooyong	Nationalist	Joseph Hannan	John Latham (Nat)
Maribyrnong	Labor	James Fenton	Arthur Fenton (Nat)
Melbourne	Labor	William Maloney	Norman O'Brien (Nat)
Melbourne Ports	Labor	James Mathews
Wannon	Nationalist	John McNeill	Arthur Rodgers (Nat)
Wimmera	Independent		John Harris (CP)	Percy Stewart (CPP)
Yarra	Labor	James Scullin	Cecil Keeley (Nat)

Western Australia

Electorate	Held by	Labor candidate	Coalition candidate	Independent candidate(s)
Forrest	Country	Cornelius Buckley	John Prowse (CP)
Fremantle	Independent	John Curtin	Frank Gibson (Nat)	Keith Watson
Kalgoorlie	Labor	Albert Green
Perth	Nationalist	Arthur Watts	Edward Mann (Nat)	John McCoo
Swan	Country		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

Three seats were up for election. The Labor Party was defending one seat. The Nationalist-Country Coalition was defending two seats. Nationalist Senators Charles Cox, Walter Duncan and Walter Massy-Greene were not up for re-election.

Labor candidates	Coalition candidates
John Dooley* James Dunn* Arthur Rae*	Percy Abbott (CP) Richard Orchard (Nat) Josiah Thomas (Nat)

Queensland

Four seats were up for election. One of these was a short-term vacancy caused by Nationalist Senator Thomas Givens's death; this had been held in the interim by Labor's John MacDonald. The Nationalist Party was defending four seats. Nationalist Senators Sir William Glasgow and William Thompson were not up for re-election.

Labor candidates	Coalition candidates	Independent candidates
Robert Horn George Lawson John MacDonald John Valentine	Walter Cooper* (CP) Thomas Crawford* (Nat) Harry Foll* (Nat) Matthew Reid* (Nat)	Harald Jensen

South Australia

Three seats were up for election. Originally, they were held by the Labor Party, but two Nationalist Party members had been appointed to casual vacancies. Nationalist Senators Alexander McLachlan and Sir John Newlands and Country Party Senator John Chapman were not up for re-election.

Labor candidates	Nationalist candidates	Other candidates
John Daly* Bert Hoare* Mick O'Halloran*	Sir Edward Lucas Albert Robinson John Verran	Raphael Cilento (Prot) Ernest Rowe (CP)

Tasmania

Three seats were up for election. The Nationalist Party was defending two seats. One seat had been held by the Labor Party, but Senator James Ogden had defected to the Nationalists. Nationalist Senators John Millen, Herbert Payne and Burford Sampson were not up for re-election.

Labor candidates	Nationalist candidates
Henry Lane William Sheridan	John Hayes* Herbert Hays* Andrew Lawson James Ogden*

Victoria

Three seats were up for election. The Labor Party was defending two seats. The Country Party was defending one seat. Nationalist Senators Harold Elliott, James Guthrie and William Plain were not up for re-election.

Labor candidates	Coalition candidates
John Barnes* Albert Blakey Edward Findley	Robert Elliott* (CP) Harry Lawson* (Nat)

Western Australia

Three seats were up for election. The Labor Party was defending two seats. The Nationalist Party was defending one seat. Nationalist Senators Patrick Lynch and Sir George Pearce and Country Party Senator William Carroll were not up for re-election.

Labor candidates	Coalition candidates
Ernest Barker Charles Graham Ted Needham	Sir Hal Colebatch* (Nat) Bertie Johnston* (CP) Walter Kingsmill* (Nat)

See also

• Members of the Australian House of Representatives, 1925–1928
• Members of the Australian House of Representatives, 1928–1929
• Members of the Australian Senate, 1926–1929
• Members of the Australian Senate, 1929–1932
• List of political parties in Australia

References

• Adam Carr's Election Archive - House of Representatives 1928
• Adam Carr's Election Archive - Senate 1928