Candidates of the 1958 Victorian state election

The 1958 Victorian state election was held on 31 May 1958.

Seat changes

There was a redistribution of boundaries in 1958. In consequence:

• Ascot Vale Labor MLA Ernie Shepherd contested Footscray.
• Carlton Labor MLA Denis Lovegrove contested Fitzroy.
• Caulfield LCP MLA Joe Rafferty contested Ormond.
• Caulfield East LCP MLA Alexander Fraser contested Caulfield.
• Collingwood Labor MLA Bill Towers contested Richmond.
• Dandenong LCP MLA Ray Wiltshire contested Mulgrave.
• Footscray Labor MLA Roy Schintler contested Yarraville.
• Hawthorn LCP MLA Jim Manson contested Ringwood.
• Pascoe Vale Labor MLA Arthur Drakeford contested Essendon.
• Port Melbourne Labor MLA Archie Todd contested the Legislative Council.

Retiring Members

Liberal and Country

• Edward Guye MLA (Polwarth)

Legislative Assembly

Sitting members are shown in bold text. Successful candidates are highlighted in the relevant colour. Where there is possible confusion, an asterisk (*) is also used.

Electorate	Held by	Labor candidates	LCP candidates	Country candidates	DLP candidates	Other candidates
Albert Park	Labor	Keith Sutton	Roy Schilling		Stan Corrigan	Vida Little (CPA)
Ballarat North	Country	Ronald House	Tom Evans	Russell White	James Meere
Ballarat South	LCP	Maxwell Pinkard	Gordon Scott	Arthur Philips	Leslie D'Arcy
Balwyn	LCP	John MacPherson	Alex Taylor		Leo Erwin	Frank Block (Ind)
Benalla	Country	Jack Ginifer	James Bennison	Frederick Cook	William Mithen
Benambra	Country	Francis Taylor	James Shannon	Tom Mitchell	Henry Richards
Bendigo	LCP	Bill Galvin	John Stanistreet	William Nicholls	James Brosnan
Box Hill	LCP	William Betton	George Reid		Edmund Burgi
Brighton	LCP	Reginald Hayes	John Rossiter
Broadmeadows	LCP	Joseph Smith	Harry Kane		John Donnellon
Brunswick East	Labor	Leo Fennessy	Bill Burns		Allan Swain
Brunswick West	Labor	Campbell Turnbull	Alfred Wall		Peter Randles
Burwood	LCP	Vincent Scully	Jim MacDonald
Camberwell	LCP	George Blood	Vernon Wilcox		Leonora Lloyd
Caulfield	LCP	Alan Brenton	Alexander Fraser		Celia Laird
Coburg	Independent	Charlie Mutton	Peter Robertson		Kevin O'Dea
Dandenong	LCP	Alan Lind	Len Reid		Reginald Kearney
Dundas	LCP	Bob McClure	Sir William McDonald		John Peters
Elsternwick	LCP	George Smith	Richard Gainey		Rex Keane
Essendon	Labor	Arthur Drakeford	Kenneth Wheeler		Kevin Digby
Evelyn	Labor	Phillip Connell	Russell Stokes		Kevin Gould
Fitzroy	Labor	Denis Lovegrove	Charles Gillies		David Woodhouse
Flemington	Labor	Kevin Holland	Norman Loader		Michael McMahon
Footscray	Labor	Ernie Shepherd	Bryan Tonkin		Robert Kerr
Geelong	LCP	George Poyser	Sir Thomas Maltby		George Taylor	Albert Woodward (Ind)
Geelong West	Labor	Colin MacDonald	Max Gillett		James Mahoney
Gippsland East	Country		Rae Archibald	Sir Albert Lind	Frank Burns
Gippsland South	Country			Sir Herbert Hyland	John Hansen
Gippsland West	Country	James Longstaff	James Hosking	Leslie Cochrane	Kevin Scanlon
Grant	Labor	Roy Crick	John Anderson		Maxwell Campbell
Hampden	LCP	Fred Levin	Henry Bolte		Leo O'Brien
Hawthorn	LCP	Jack Poke	Peter Garrisson		Charles Murphy
Ivanhoe	LCP	David Walker	Vernon Christie		Cyril Cummins
Kara Kara	LCP	Cyril Sudholz	Keith Turnbull	Allen Reseigh	Gerard Gilders
Kew	LCP	Kevin Lynch	Arthur Rylah		John Buchanan	Ralph Gibson (CPA)
Lowan	LCP		Wilfred Mibus	Ian McCann	Edgar McMahon
Malvern	LCP		John Bloomfield			Mascotte Brown (Ind)
Melbourne	Labor	Arthur Clarey	Martha Yuille		Tom Hayes
Mentone	LCP	Alfred O'Connor	Edward Meagher		George White
Midlands	Labor	Clive Stoneham	James Mactier		John Timberlake
Mildura	Country	William Nicholas		Nathaniel Barclay	John Cotter
Moonee Ponds	LCP	Thomas Moloney	Jack Holden		Paul Gunn	Lancelot Hutchinson (Ind)
Moorabbin	LCP	Les Coates	Bob Suggett		Desmond Ward
Mornington	LCP	Gordon Anstee	Roberts Dunstan
Morwell	LCP	Hector Stoddart	Jim Balfour		Alfred Gerrard
Mulgrave	LCP	John Neal	Ray Wiltshire		Leo Sparrow
Murray Valley	Country	Neil Frankland		George Moss	John Patterson
Northcote	Labor	Frank Wilkes	Edward Wells		Thomas Walsh
Oakleigh	Labor	Val Doube	William Downard		John Heffernan
Ormond	LCP	Robert Flanagan	Joe Rafferty		Robert Semmel	Gilbert Smith (Ind)
Polwarth	LCP	William King	Tom Darcy	Ronald McDonough	Michael Finlay
Portland	LCP	Malcolm Gladman	George Gibbs		John Russell
Prahran	LCP	Robert Pettiona	Sam Loxton		Gordon Haberman
Preston	Labor	Charlie Ring	Neville Crocker		Michael Lucy
Reservoir	Labor	William Ruthven	Hubert Joelson		Frederick Whitling
Richmond	DLP	Bill Towers	Nicholas Renton		Frank Scully
Ringwood	LCP	William Webber	Jim Manson		Bruce Burne
Ripponlea	LCP	Jack Kagan	Edgar Tanner		Dermot O'Neill
Rodney	Country			Richard Brose	Spencer Broom
St Kilda	LCP	Paul Fraser	Baron Snider		John Hughes
Sandringham	LCP	Henry Fowler	Murray Porter		Thomas Ryan
Scoresby	LCP	Reginald Robertson	Sir George Knox		George Noone
Swan Hill	Country			Harold Stirling		John Hipworth (Ind Lib)
Toorak	LCP	George Gahan	Horace Petty
Williamstown	Labor	Larry Floyd	Joy Head		Edward Purchase	William Tregear (CPA)
Yarraville	Labor	Roy Schintler	William Lovell		James Eudey	William Keily (Ind)

See also

• 1958 Victorian Legislative Council election

References

• Psephos - Adam Carr's Election Archive