Candidates of the 1962 Western Australian state election

The 1962 Western Australian state election was held on 31 March 1962.

Retiring Members

Labor

• Emil Nulsen (MLA) (Eyre)

LCL

• James Mann (MLA) (Avon Valley)

Country

• Arthur Watts (MLA) (Stirling)

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 candidate	LCL candidate	Country candidate	Other candidates
Albany	Labor	Jack Hall	John Hutchinson
Avon	LCL		Arthur Kelly	Harry Gayfer* Leonard Doncon
Balcatta	Labor	Herb Graham	Rodney Treadgold		Adrian Briffa (DLP)
Bayswater	Labor	Merv Toms
Beeloo	Labor	Colin Jamieson	William How		Philip De Lacey (DLP)
Belmont	Labor	James Hegney			Hudson Hudson-Taylor (Ind.) Patrick Faulkner (Ind. Lab) Stanley Meredith (DLP) Michael Coffey (Ind. Lab)
Blackwood	LCL		John Hearman		Henry Rudd (Ind.)
Boulder-Eyre	Labor	Arthur Moir	Philip Charsley	William Kirwan	Orlando Stuart (Ind.)
Bunbury	LCL	Charles Webber	George Roberts
Canning	LCL	Don May	Raymond Richardson	Arthur Mills
Claremont	LCL		Harold Crommelin		John Smith (Ind. Lib)
Cockburn	Labor	Henry Curran	James Burns		Maurice Robinson (DLP)
Collie	Labor	Harry May	Edward Cocker		Norman Coote (Ind.)
Cottesloe	LCL	David Wright	Ross Hutchinson
Dale	LCL	Donald Culley	Gerald Wild
Darling Range	Country	Jack Metcalfe	Ken Dunn	Ray Owen
East Melville	LCL	Mervyn Jahn	Des O'Neil
Fremantle	Labor	Harry Fletcher	Charles Scampton		George Kendrick (Comm.)
Gascoyne	Labor	Daniel Norton
Geraldton	Labor	Bill Sewell			Charles Eadon-Clarke (Ind) John Porteus (Ind)
Greenough	LCL		David Brand		John Gandini (Comm.)
Kalgoorlie	Labor	Tom Evans	Graham Jonas
Karrinyup	LCL	Stan Lapham	Les Nimmo		Brian Peachey (DLP)
Katanning	Country			Crawford Nalder
Kimberley	Labor	John Rhatigan			Lenin McAlear (Ind. Lab)
Maylands	Labor	Edward Oldfield	John Watts		Gerard Lyons (DLP)
Melville	Labor	John Tonkin	Eelco Tacoma
Merredin-Yilgarn	Labor	Lionel Kelly		Squire Fletcher
Moore	Country			Edgar Lewis
Mount Hawthorn	Labor	Bill Hegney	Hugh O'Doherty
Mount Lawley	LCL	Joe Berinson	Ray O'Connor
Mount Marshall	Country			George Cornell
Murchison	LCL	William Matthews	Richard Burt		Kevin Bartle (DLP)
Murray	LCL		Ross McLarty		Frederick Crockenberg (Ind)
Narrogin	Country			William Manning
Nedlands	LCL	John Henshaw	Charles Court
Northam	Labor	Albert Hawke
Perth	Labor	Stanley Heal	Raymond Nowland		Terence Merchant (DLP)
Pilbara	Labor	Arthur Bickerton
Roe	Country		Colin Cameron	Tom Hart
South Perth	LCL		Bill Grayden		Harry Repacholi (Ind) George Strickland (Ind. Lib)
Stirling	Country		Roy Dix	Clayton Mitchell* John Lyons	Robin Faulkner (Ind) Malcol Bateman (Ind)
Subiaco	LCL	Percival Potter	Hugh Guthrie		Francis Dwyer (DLP)
Swan	Labor	John Brady			Gordon Murray (Comm)
Toodyay	Country	Slavejko Geroff		James Craig	Leo Agnello (DLP)
Vasse	LCL		William Bovell
Victoria Park	Labor	Ron Davies	John Stanbridge
Warren	Labor	Joseph Rowberry	Walter Muir
Wellington	LCL		William Bovell
Wembley	LCL		Guy Henn

See also

• Members of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly, 1959–1962
• Members of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly, 1962–1965
• 1962 Western Australian Legislative Council election
• 1962 Western Australian state election

References

• Prescott, David Black with the assistance of Valerie (1997). Election statistics : Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, 1890-1996. Perth, [W.A.]: Western Australian Parliamentary History Project and Western Australian Electoral Commission. ISBN 0730984095.