Candidates of the 1959 New South Wales state election

This is a list of candidates of the 1959 New South Wales state election. The election was held on 21 March 1959.^[1]

Retiring Members

Labor

Liberal

Jim Clough (Parramatta)

Country

D'Arcy Rose (Upper Hunter)

Legislative Assembly

Sitting members are shown in bold text. Successful candidates are highlighted in the relevant colour.

Electorate	Held by	Labor candidate	Coalition candidate	Other candidates

Albury	Liberal	Reginald Garland	Doug Padman (Lib)	Lawrence Esler (DLP)
Armidale	Country	Percy Love	Davis Hughes (CP)	Richard Stanley (DLP)
Ashfield-Croydon	notional Liberal ^[2]	John McCartney	David Hunter (Lib)
Ashfield-Croydon	notional Liberal ^[2]	John McCartney	Richard Murden (Lib)
Auburn	Labor	Thomas Ryan	John Steel (Lib)
Balmain	Labor	John McMahon	Sabina Greenman (Lib)	Stan Moran (CPA)
Bankstown	Labor	Spence Powell	Frederick Howe (Lib)	Jack Hughes (CPA) Charles Reid (Ind)
Barwon	Country	Thomas Burt	Geoff Crawford (CP)
Bathurst	Labor	Gus Kelly	Campbell Alexander (Lib)
Blacktown	Labor	Jim Southee	Alfred Dennis (Lib)	Frank Finlayson (Ind) Francis Moffitt (DLP)
Bondi	Labor	Abe Landa	Carl Jeppesen (Lib)	Charles Massey (DLP)
Bulli	Labor	Rex Jackson	Donald Heggie (Lib)	Frederick Watson (CPA)
Burrinjuck	Labor	Bill Sheahan	Allan Johnson (CP)
Burwood	Liberal	John Cunningham	Ben Doig (Lib)
Byron	Country		Stanley Stephens (CP)
Canterbury	Labor	Arthur Tonge	William Dowd (Lib)
Casino	Country		Ian Robinson (CP)
Castlereagh	Labor	Jack Renshaw	Calverley Brown (CP)
Cessnock	Labor	George Neilly		Charles Haxton (Ind) David Stevenson (CPA)
Clarence	Country		Bill Weiley (CP)
Cobar	Labor	Ernest Wetherell
Collaroy	Liberal	Erwin Eder	Robert Askin (Lib)
Concord	Labor	Thomas Murphy	Lerryn Mutton (Lib)	Jack Kane (DLP)
Coogee	Liberal	Lou Walsh	Kevin Ellis (Lib)	Allan Carter (DLP)
Cook's River	Labor	Joseph Cahill	Athol McCoy (Lib)	Charles Higbid (Ind)
Cronulla	notional Liberal ^[2]	George Neilson	Ian Griffith (Lib)
Drummoyne	Liberal	Roy Jackson	Walter Lawrence (Lib)
Dubbo	Labor	Clarrie Robertson	Les Ford (Lib)	Brian Adams (DLP)
Dubbo	Labor	Clarrie Robertson	Roderick Mack (CP)	Brian Adams (DLP)
Dulwich Hill	Labor	Cliff Mallam	Joseph Hollis (Lib)	Owen Cahill (DLP)
Earlwood	Liberal	John Buckeridge	Eric Willis (Lib)
East Hills	Labor	Joe Kelly	Allan Young (Lib)	John Bennett (Ind)
Eastwood	Liberal	William Browne	Eric Hearnshaw (Lib)
Fairfield	Labor	Clarrie Earl	David Fairs (Lib)	Edwin Lipscombe (CPA)
Georges River	Liberal	Albert Kealman	Douglas Cross	Kevin Davis (DLP) Fitzgerald Mulholland (Ind)
Gloucester	Country		Ray Fitzgerald (CP)	Alan Borthwick (Ind)
Gordon	Liberal		Stewart Fraser (Lib)
Gosford	Liberal	Reginald Smith	Harold Jackson (Lib)
Goulburn	Labor	Laurie Tully	William Bladwell (Lib)	Charles O'Brien (DLP)
Granville	Labor	Bill Lamb	Robert Leech (Lib)	Harold Ewer (CPA)
Hamilton	Labor	Robert McCartney	Brian O'Loughlin (Lib)	John Daley (DLP)
Hartley	Labor	Jim Robson		Peter Carroll (CPA)
Hawkesbury	Labor	Kevin Dwyer	Bernie Deane (Lib)
Hornsby	Liberal	Arthur Evans	Sydney Storey (Lib)
Hurstville	Labor	Bill Rigby	Hedley Mallard (Lib)	Clive Evatt (Ind Lab) Edward Merryfull (Ind)
Illawarra	Labor	Howard Fowles		David Bowen (CPA) James Casey (Ind)
Kahibah	Labor	Jack Stewart	Eric Cupit (Lib)
King	Labor	Albert Sloss	Adrian Cook (Lib)	Ron Maxwell (CPA)
Kogarah	Labor	Bill Crabtree	Jeffrey Skehan (Lib)	Thomas Brosnan (DLP) Jack McPhillips (CPA)
Kurri Kurri	Labor	George Booth		Charles Dumbrell (CPA)
Lake Macquarie	Labor	Jim Simpson		John Tapp (CPA)
Lakemba	Labor	Stan Wyatt	Dora Skelsey (Lib)
Lane Cove	Liberal	Arthur Braddock	Ken McCaw (Lib)	Mary Gray (DLP)
Leichhardt	Labor	Reg Coady	Barney Morton (Lib)
Lismore	Country		Jack Easter (CP)	Clyde Campbell (Ind)
Liverpool	Labor	Jack Mannix	Ron Dunbier (Lib)
Liverpool Plains	Labor	Roger Nott	Frank O'Keefe (CP)	John Pender (Ind)
Maitland	Liberal	William Harvey	Milton Morris (Lib)	Douglas Drinkwater (DLP) Henry Ivins (Ind)
Manly	Liberal	Geoffrey Mill	Douglas Darby (Lib)
Maroubra	Labor	Bob Heffron	George Anthony (Lib)	Jim Baird (CPA)
Marrickville	Labor	Norm Ryan	Michael Lazar (Lib)
Merrylands	notional Labor ^[2]	Jack Ferguson	Graham Cullis (Lib)
Monaro	Labor	John Seiffert	Mark Flanagan (Lib)
Mosman	Liberal		Pat Morton (Lib)	Bill Wood (CPA)
Mudgee	Labor	Leo Nott	Norman Griffith (CP) Jack Ives (Lib)	Donald Bennett (DLP)
Murray	Country	John Hayes	Joe Lawson (CP)
Murrumbidgee	Labor	George Enticknap	Verdon Letheren (CP)	Sidney Braithwaite (Ind) Francis O'Connell (DLP)
Nepean	Liberal	John Carvan	Bill Chapman (Lib)	Mel McCalman (CPA)
Neutral Bay	Liberal		Ivan Black (Lib)
Newcastle	Labor	Frank Hawkins	William Hutchinson (Lib)	Mervyn Copley (CPA)
North Sydney	Labor	Ray Maher	Russell Newton (Lib)	Francis Ferry (Ind) Michael Fitzpatrick (DLP)
Orange	Country	Lloyd Stapleton	Charles Cutler (CP)
Oxley	Country		Les Jordan (CP)	Joe Cordner (Ind) Duncan Kennedy (Ind)
Paddington-Waverley	notional Labor ^[2]	William Ferguson	Jack Cole (Lib)	Cyril Hutchings (Ind) Bernard Rosen (CPA)
Parramatta	Labor	Dan Mahoney	William Pickard (Lib)	Carlyle Dalgleish (DLP)
Phillip	Labor	Pat Hills	Warwick Dunkley (Lib)	Ernie Thornton (CPA)
Raleigh	Country	William Bailey	Jim Brown (CP)	Radford Gamack (Ind CP)
Randwick	Labor	William Gollan	Graham Price (Lib)	Cecil Russell (DLP)
Redfern	Labor	Fred Green	Mary Beckett (Lib)	Arthur Shipton (CPA)
Rockdale	Labor	Brian Bannon	Ronald Hislop	Arthur Henderson (Ind) Wesley Johns (DLP)
Ryde	Labor	Frank Downing	Ian Millar (Lib)	Francis Bull (DLP)
South Coast	Liberal		Jack Beale (Lib)	Douglas Glass (Ind)
Sturt	Labor	William Wattison	Edward Brown (CP)	Edward Craill (CPA) George Mailath (DLP)
Sutherland	Liberal	Tom Dalton	Keith Bates (Lib)	Alexander Elphinston (CPA) Peter Keogh (DLP)
Tamworth	Country		Bill Chaffey (CP)
Temora	Country		Doug Dickson (CP)
Tenterfield	Country	Herbert Pottie	Michael Bruxner (CP)
Upper Hunter	Country	Geoffrey Heuston	Leon Punch (CP)	George Adams (Ind) John Moore (Ind)
Vaucluse	Liberal		Geoffrey Cox (Lib)
Wagga Wagga	Liberal	Dudley Graham	Wal Fife (Lib)	Robert Harris (DLP)
Waratah	Independent	Edward Greaves		Frank Purdue (Ind)
Willoughby	Liberal		George Brain (Lib)
Wollondilly	Liberal	Ernest Seager	Tom Lewis (Lib)
Wollongong-Kembla	Labor	Rex Connor	Jack Hough (Lib)
Woollahra	Liberal		Vernon Treatt (Lib)
Young	Labor	Ernest McDermott	George Freudenstein (CP)	John Hogan (DLP)
Young	Labor	Ernest McDermott	Raymond Oliver (Lib)	John Hogan (DLP)

References

^ Green, Antony. "1959 Election candidate index". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 11 December 2021.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "1957 Redistribution". Atlas of New South Wales. NSW Land & Property Information. Archived from the original on 23 June 2015.

[1] Green, Antony. "1959 Election candidate index". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 11 December 2021.

[1957_redistribution-2] "1957 Redistribution". Atlas of New South Wales. NSW Land & Property Information. Archived from the original on 23 June 2015.

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