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

• On 16 November 1940, Herbert Johnson (Labor) was elected to replace Albert Green (Labor) as the member for Kalgoorlie.
• On 21 December 1940, Thomas Marwick (Country) was elected to replace Henry Gregory (Country) as the member for Swan.
• On 24 May 1941, Grenfell Price (UAP) was elected to replace John Price (UAP) as the member for Boothby.
• On 8 October 1942, Charles Latham (Country) was appointed a Western Australian Senator to replace Bertie Johnston (Country).

Defections

• In 1941, Labor MP Maurice Blackburn (Bourke) was expelled from the Labor Party and subsequently sat as an Independent.
• In 1941, the Australian Labor Party (Non-Communist) was reabsorbed into the federal Labor Party. Non-Communist members Senator Stan Amour (New South Wales), Senator John Armstrong (New South Wales), Jack Beasley (West Sydney), Dan Mulcahy (Lang), Sol Rosevear (Dalley) and Tom Sheehan (Cook) were all readmitted to the ALP.
• In 1943, Country Party MP Thomas Marwick (Swan) left the party to sit as an Independent.
• In 1943, Labor Senator Tom Arthur lost his place on the Labor ticket. He contested the election as an Independent.

Retiring Members and Senators

United Australia

• Sir George Bell MP (Darwin, Tas)
• Senator Alexander McLachlan (SA)

Country

• Thomas Paterson MP (Gippsland, Vic)

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
Barton	Labor	H. V. Evatt	Frank Browne (UAP)			Thomas Claydon (PPP)
Calare	Labor	John Breen	Reg Edols (CP) Albert Reid (CP)	Percy Phelan		Harold Thorby (Ind)
Cook	Labor (N-C)	Tom Sheehan		Albert Jones		Sid Conway (SL) Cyril Glassop (PL)
Cowper	Country	John Howard	Sir Earle Page (CP)	Alexander Moore		Joseph McElhone (Ind)
Dalley	Labor (N-C)	Sol Rosevear		Ernest de Faria		Lance Sharkey (CPA)
Darling	Labor	Joe Clark		James Butler
East Sydney	Labor	Eddie Ward	Vincent Brady (UAP)	Ernest Carr	Hugh Angrave	Arthur Shirley (Ind)
Eden-Monaro	United Australia	Allan Fraser	John Perkins (UAP)		Denzil Macarthur-Onslow	Bill Beale (Ind) Jonas Crabtree (Ind) John Egan (Ind) Cecil Gray (Ind)
Gwydir	Labor	William Scully	Colin Gale (CP)	William Mills		Edmund Daniel (Ind)
Hume	Country	Arthur Fuller	Thomas Collins (CP)		John Neeld	Vernon Lawrence (Ind) John McLeod (CPA)
Hunter	Labor	Rowley James
Lang	Labor (N-C)	Dan Mulcahy	William Harris (UAP)			John Metcalfe (Ind) Henry Mulcahy (Ind) Adam Ogston (CPA)
Macquarie	Labor	Ben Chifley	Arthur Hebblewhite (UAP)	Albert Walker		Millie Sullivan (Ind CP)
Martin	United Australia	Fred Daly	William McCall (UAP)		George Mills	Gerrard 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 England	Country	Herbert Oxford	Joe Abbott (CP)	James Fowler		Charles Abbott (Ind) Albert Royal (Ind)
Newcastle	Labor	David Watkins				James Bayley (Ind) John Cain (Ind Lab) Stan Deacon (CPA) Fred Wright (Ind Lab)
North Sydney	United Australia	Leo Haylen	Billy Hughes (UAP)	Jack Lewis		Eric Bentley (Ind) Jack Miles (CPA) Oliver Partington (Ind) Patrick Williams (Ind)
Parkes	United Australia	Les Haylen	Sir Charles Marr (UAP)	Arthur Miles	Nigel Love	Pauline Budge (AWP) Arthur Thompson (Ind) Francis Wilson (Ind)
Parramatta	United Australia	Arthur Treble	Sir Frederick Stewart (UAP)		Ormond Bissett	Robert Firebrace (NU) Howard Miscamble (Ind UAP) Dexter Moore (Ind)
Reid	Labor	Charles Morgan	David Knox (UAP)	Alfred Turner		Dick George (Ind UAP) Jack Hughes (SL) Jack Lang (LL)
Richmond	Country	Arthur Dodd	Larry Anthony (CP)	Alfred Anderson
Riverina	Labor	Joe Langtry	Lindsay McIvor (CP) Russell Scilley (CP)		George Simons	Robert Ballantyne (Ind) Robert McKenzie (Ind) Frank Rieck (Ind)
Robertson	United Australia	Thomas Williams	Eric Spooner (UAP)	Donald Brown		Walter Evans (SL) Roberta Galagher (Ind)
Warringah	United Australia	Ronald Ashworth	Percy Spender (UAP)	Douglas Morris		Edward Doherty (Ind MCP) Gerald Robinson (Ind) Stephen Stack (Ind)
Watson	Labor	Max Falstein	Norman Whitfield (UAP)		Arthur Dudley	Les Fingleton (Ind UAP) Hubert O'Connell (Ind UAP) Richard Wilson (SL) Harry Yates (Ind)
Wentworth	United Australia	Jessie Street	Eric Harrison (UAP)		Charles Mayo	Bill Wentworth (Nat Gov) Thomas Whitehouse (Ind)
Werriwa	Labor	Bert Lazzarini		Arthur Brown		Michel Kartzoff (Ind)
West Sydney	Labor (N-C)	Jack Beasley		Eddington Sherwood		Horace Foley (SL) Malinda Ivey (Ind) William McCristal (SCWW)

Northern Territory

Electorate	Held by	Candidates
Northern Territory	Independent	Sydney 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
Brisbane	Labor	George Lawson	John Fletcher (UAP)	Robert Boardman	Bruce Pie (Ind)
Capricornia	Labor	Frank Forde	Charles Ward (UAP)
Darling Downs	Country	Leslie Bailey	Arthur Fadden (CP)	Hugh Phair	Raymond Mullaly (Ind)
Griffith	Labor	William Conelan	Richard Larking (UAP)	John Carbine	Theophilus Dunstone (Ind) William Kingwell (Ind)
Herbert	Labor	George Martens	Archie Graham (CP)		Charles Cook (Ind) Fred Paterson (CPA)
Kennedy	Labor	Bill Riordan	Wilfrid Simmonds (CP)		Athena Deane (Ind) Richard Vane-Millbank (Ind)
Lilley	United Australia	Jim Hadley	William Jolly (UAP)	Hans Beiers	James Julin (Ind)
Maranoa	Labor	Frank Baker	Charles Adermann (CP)
Moreton	United Australia	Patrick McInally	John Cantwell (CP) Josiah Francis* (UAP)	Ralph Belcham
Wide Bay	Country	George Watson	Bernard Corser* (CP) James Heading (CP)		Clive Lambourne (Ind) Henry Madden (Ind)

South Australia

Electorate	Held by	Labor candidate	UAP candidate	Other candidates
Adelaide	United Australia	Cyril Chambers	Fred Stacey	Alf Watt (CPA) George Edwin Yates (Ind Lab)
Barker	Country	Harry Krantz	Archie Cameron	John Gartner (Ind) Frank Halleday (Ind)
Boothby	United Australia	Thomas Sheehy	Grenfell Price	Alan Finger (CPA) John Turner (CD)
Grey	Country	Edgar Russell	Oliver Badman
Hindmarsh	Labor	Norman Makin	James Butler
Wakefield	United Australia	Albert Smith	Jack Duncan-Hughes

Tasmania

Electorate	Held by	Labor candidate	UAP candidate	Other candidates
Bass	Labor	Claude Barnard	Desmond Oldham	Harold Harwood (Ind) John Orchard (Ind) John Watson (Ind)
Darwin	United Australia	Carrol Bramich Eric Reece	John Leary Dame Enid Lyons* John Wright	Roy Harvey (CPA) Edgar Nicholls (Ind Lab)
Denison	United Australia	Frank Gaha	Arthur Beck	Gerald Mahoney (Ind Lab) George Walliss (CPA)
Franklin	Labor	Charles Frost	Charles Tennant Denis Warner
Wilmot	United Australia	Ern Pinkard	Allan Guy	John McGeary (Ind)

Victoria

Electorate	Held by	Labor candidate	Coalition candidate	Other candidates
Balaclava	United Australia	John Barry	Thomas White (UAP)	Frank Barnes (Ind) Constance Duncan (Ind) Helen Maxwell (Prog) George Morris (Ind)
Ballaarat	Labor	Reg Pollard	Bill Roff (UAP)	Gordon Irish (Chr Ind)
Batman	Labor	Frank Brennan	Arthur McAdam (UAP)	Joseph Cahir (Ind) Gordon Currie (SP) Christina Debney (Ind) Ian Malloch (SCP)
Bendigo	Country	Bert de Grandi	George Rankin (CP)	William Banks (Ind Lab) John Crawford (Ind) Morton Garner (Ind UAP)
Bourke	Labor	Bill Bryson	David Smith (UAP)	Maurice Blackburn (Ind Lab) John March (Ind)
Corangamite	United Australia	Harold Miller	Allan McDonald (UAP)	Elsie Brushfield (Ind) Sydney Donaldson (Ind CP)
Corio	Labor	John Dedman	Rupert Curnow (UAP)	James Baker (Prog) Neil Freeman (Ind)
Deakin	United Australia	Frank Williamson	William Hutchinson (UAP)	Alan Coffey (MCP) Arthur Coles (Ind) Robert Elliott (Ind) Dick Radclyffe (Ind UAP)
Fawkner	United Australia	Thomas Jude	Harold Holt (UAP)	William Cremor (Ind) Malcolm Good (CPA) Charles Kennett (Ind) Vernon Margetts (Ind) Ruth Ravenscroft (Ind)
Flinders	United Australia	Frank Lee	Morton Moyes (CP) Rupert Ryan* (UAP)	Mabel Brookes (AWP) Rupert Clark (Ind)
Gippsland	Country	Wally Williames	George Bowden (CP)	Stephen Ashton (Ind Dem) Herbert Birch (SCP) Mervyn Morgan (OPA)
Henty	Independent		Jo Gullett (UAP)	Arthur Coles* (Ind) Carlyle Ferguson (Ind Lib) Edmund Lind (SCP) Bernard Rees (Ind Lab) Ivy Weber (WFCM)
Indi	Country	Charles Sandford	John McEwen (CP)	Gerry O'Day (CPA)
Kooyong	United Australia	Albert Nicholls	Robert Menzies (UAP)	Ted Laurie (CPA) John Nimmo (MCP) Gwendolyn Noad (Chr Ind)
Maribyrnong	Labor	Arthur Drakeford	Albert Pennell (UAP)	Kenneth Kenafick (Ind Lab) Charles Woollacott (CCM)
Melbourne	Labor	Arthur Calwell	Elizabeth Couchman (UAP)	Louis Bickart (MCP) Charles Dicker (Ind) Noble Kerby (SP) Ken Miller (CPA)
Melbourne Ports	Labor	Jack Holloway	Frank Preacher (UAP)
Wannon	Labor	Don McLeod	John Menadue (UAP) Leonard Rodda (CP)	Thomas Scholfield (Ind UAP)
Wimmera	Independent			Herbert Follett (Ind) Eric Phillips (Ind CP) Reginald Skeat (Ind CP) Albert Thompson (Ind CP) Alexander Wilson* (Ind)
Yarra	Labor	James Scullin	Gilbert Jenkin (UAP)	Ralph Gibson (CPA) William Jinkins (SCP) Allan MacDonald (Ind)

Western Australia

Electorate	Held by	Labor candidate	Coalition candidate	Other candidates
Forrest	Country	Nelson Lemmon	John Prowse (CP)	Ian Fergusson-Stewart (Ind) Wilfred Lewis (Ind) Arthur West (Ind CP)
Fremantle	Labor	John Curtin	Alex Bracks (UAP)	Frederick Lee (Ind Nat)
Kalgoorlie	Labor	Herbert Johnson	Lance Horley (UAP) Ralph Shaw (UAP)	Kevin Healy (CPA) William McGhie (Ind)
Perth	United Australia	Tom Burke	Walter Nairn (UAP)	Clarrie Boyd (CPA) Dorothea Foster (Ind) Stephenson Fox (Ind) Thomas Groves (Ind) William Herbert (Ind) Thomas Hughes (Ind) Robert Nicholson (Ind)
Swan	Country	Don Mountjoy	Cecil 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
Stan Amour* John Armstrong* Donald Grant*	Guy Arkins (UAP) Dick Dein (UAP) Horace Nock (CP)	Harold Sterling William O'Sullivan Sylvan Deloraine	Peter Pollack Julius Burnham 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
Gordon Brown* Joe Collings* Ben Courtice*	Charles Brown Paul Goldenstedt James McDonald	James Annand Bob McGeoch 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
Sid O'Flaherty* Theo Nicholls* Alex Finlay*	Philip McBride Keith Wilson 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
Bill Aylett* Charles Lamp* Nick McKenna* Richard Darcey George Carruthers	Bayard Edgell Algie Findlay Peregrine Andrews Darrel Tait Bruce Hamilton 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
Don Cameron* Richard Keane* Jim Sheehan*	Sir Frank Beaurepaire (UAP) William Moss (CP) John Spicer (UAP)	Vera Carr Alexander Amess 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
James Fraser* Robert Clothier* Richard Nash* Dorothy Tangney*	Thomas Louch (UAP) John Teasdale (UAP) Jim Paton (UAP) Charles Latham (CP)	Cropper Milligan Colin Unwin Claude Swaine

See also

• 1943 Australian federal election
• Members of the Australian House of Representatives, 1940–1943
• Members of the Australian House of Representatives, 1943–1946
• Members of the Australian Senate, 1941–1944
• Members of the Australian Senate, 1944–1947
• List of political parties in Australia

References

• Adam Carr's Election Archive - House of Representatives 1943
• Adam Carr's Election Archive - Senate 1943