Candidates of the 1920 Queensland state election

This is a list of candidates who stood for the 1920 state election in Queensland, Australia.The election was held on 9 October 1920.

Since the previous election in 1918, the Country Party had formed, and had been joined by many sitting National Party MPs. Four parties – the National, Country, Northern Country and National Labor parties – operated as a coalition in this election.

By-elections

On 20 December 1919, Frank Bulcock (Labor) was elected to succeed T. J. Ryan (Labor), who had resigned on 14 October 1919, as the member for Barcoo.
On 20 December 1919, Tom Foley (Labor) was elected to succeed Herbert Hardacre (Labor), who had resigned on 14 October 1919, as the member for Leichhardt.
On 20 December 1919, Thomas Spencer (National) was elected to succeed John McEwan Hunter (Labor), who had died on 22 October 1919, as the member for Maranoa.
On 10 April 1920, Percy Pease (Labor) was elected to succeed William Lennon (Labor), who had resigned on 16 January 1920, as the member for Herbert.

Retiring members

Note: Mundingburra Labor MLA Thomas Foley had died prior to the election; no by-election was held.

Labor

Edgar Free MLA (South Brisbane)

Nationalist

Independent

Francis Grayson MLA (Cunningham)

Candidates

Sitting members at the time of the election are shown in bold text.

Electorate	Held by	Labor candidate	Coalition candidate	Other candidates

Albert	National	Richard Holden	John Appel (CP)
Aubigny	National	William Brady	Arthur Moore (CP)
Balonne	Labor	Edward Land	Richard Nantes (CP)
Barcoo	Labor	Frank Bulcock	James Cullen (NCP)
Bowen	Labor	Charles Collins	John Leahy (NCP)
Bremer	Labor	Frank Cooper	Alfred Stephenson (Nat)	Albert Welsby (Indust)
Brisbane	Labor	Mick Kirwan	Patrick Currie (Nat)
Bulimba	National	George Marriott	Walter Barnes (Nat)
Bundaberg	Labor	George Barber	John Forgan (CP)
Buranda	Labor	John Huxham	Alfred Faulkner (Nat)
Burke	Labor	Darby Riordan	John Williamson (NCP)
Burnett	National	Francis Hill	Bernard Corser (CP)
Burrum	Labor	Albert Whitford	William Brand (CP)
Cairns	Labor	William McCormack	Charles Hives (NCP)
Carnarvon	National	Alfred Jones	Edward Costello (CP)
Charters Towers	Labor	William Wellington	David Guthrie (NCP)
Chillagoe	Labor	Ted Theodore	John Egerton (NCP)
Cook	Labor	Henry Ryan	Frederick Craig (NCP)
Cooroora	National		Harry Walker (CP)
Cunningham	Independent		William Deacon (CP)
Dalby	National	James Connolly	William Vowles (CP)
Drayton	National	Lister Hopkins	William Bebbington (CP)
Eacham	Labor	William Gillies		James McCarthy (Ind CP)
East Toowoomba	National	John Mattingley	Robert Roberts (Nat)
Enoggera	Labor	William Lloyd	Jim Kerr (Nat)
Fassifern	National	Jack Quinlan	Ernest Bell (CP)
Fitzroy	Labor	Harry Hartley	Frederick Lodge (Nat)
Flinders	Labor	John Mullan	Eric Huntley (NCP)
Fortitude Valley	Labor	Thomas Wilson	James Forde (NLP)
Gregory	Labor	George Pollock	Robert Nowland (NCP)
Gympie	Labor	Thomas Dunstan	James MacDonnell (Nat)
Herbert	Labor	Percy Pease	Hedley Gelston (NCP)
Ipswich	Labor	David Gledson	James Bottomley (Nat)
Ithaca	Labor	John Gilday	John Morton (NLP)
Kennedy	Labor	James O'Sullivan	John Jones (NCP)
Keppel	Labor	James Larcombe	Robert Hartley (Nat)
Kurilpa	National	John Pringle	James Fry (Nat)
Leichhardt	Labor	Tom Foley	Charles Kingston (CP)
Lockyer	Labor	Cuthbert Butler	George Logan (CP)
Logan	Labor	Dick Brown	Alfred James (CP) Reginald King* (Nat)
Mackay	Labor	William Forgan Smith	James McLaren (NCP)	Charles Clarke (Ind CP)
Maranoa	National	Charles Conroy	Thomas Spencer (CP)
Maree	Labor	William Bertram	Field Evans Smith (Nat)
Maryborough	Labor	David Weir	James Hatton (Nat)
Merthyr	Labor	Peter McLachlan	Peter MacGregor (Nat)
Mirani	National	Maurice Hynes	Edward Swayne (NCP)
Mitchell	Labor	John Payne
Mount Morgan	Labor	James Stopford	Frederick McCarthy (Nat)
Mundingburra	Labor	John Dash	John Clegg (NCP)
Murilla	National	Jack MacGinley	Godfrey Morgan (CP)
Murrumba	National	John Forde	George Pritchard (Nat) Richard Warren* (CP)
Musgrave	Labor	Thomas Armfield	Henry Cattermull (CP)
Nanango	National	Robert Wallace	Robert Hodge (CP)	Jim Edwards (Ind CP)
Normanby	Labor	Jens Peterson	Alexander Cameron (Nat)
Nundah	National	George Robbins	Hubert Sizer (Nat)
Oxley	National	John Reid	Cecil Elphinstone (Nat)
Paddington	Labor	John Fihelly	Norm McFadden (NLP)
Pittsworth	Independent		Cecil Roberts (CP)	Percy Bayley (Ind)
Port Curtis	Labor	George Carter	John Fletcher (Nat)
Queenton	Labor	Vern Winstanley	Herbert Hall (Nat)
Rockhampton	Labor	Frank Forde	Theodore Kingel (Nat)
Rosewood	Labor	William Cooper	Arthur Ogg (CP)
South Brisbane	Labor	Myles Ferricks	James Davey (Nat)
Stanley	National	William Delaney	Frederick Nott (CP)	Duncan Watson (Ind)
Toombul	National	John Watkins	Andrew Petrie (Nat)
Toowong	National	William McCosker	James Maxwell (Nat)
Toowoomba	Labor	Frank Brennan	James Tolmie (Nat)	Alexander Dark (Ind)
Townsville	Labor	Daniel Ryan	William Green (NCP)
Warrego	Labor	Harry Coyne	Herbert Yeates (CP)
Warwick	National	Donald Beatson	George Barnes (Nat)
Wide Bay	Labor	Andrew Thompson	Harry Clayton (CP)
Windsor	National	Herbert McPhail	Charles Taylor (Nat)

References

Hughes, Colin A. (1974). Voting for the Queensland legislative assembly, 1890–1964. Canberra: Dept. of Political Science, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University. ISBN 0-7081-0301-4.