Candidates of the 1947 Queensland state election

The 1947 Queensland state election was held on 3 May 1947.

By-elections

• On 2 March 1946, Les Wood (Labor) was elected to succeed Herbert Yeates (Country), who had died on 24 December 1945, as the member for East Toowoomba.
• On 10 September 1949, Jim Donald (Labor) was elected to succeed Frank Cooper (Labor), who had resigned on 12 March 1946, as the member for Bremer.

Retiring Members

• Note: Country MLA Harry Clayton (Wide Bay) died prior to the election. No by-election was held.

Labor

• Ted Hanson MLA (Buranda)
• John Hayes MLA (Nundah)
• Aubrey Slessar MLA (Dalby)
• Tommy Williams MLA (Port Curtis)

Country

• Jim Edwards MLA (Nanango)
• Harry Walker MLA (Cooroora)

People's Party

• John Chandler MLA (Hamilton)

Candidates

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

Electorate	Held by	Labor candidate	Coalition candidate	Other candidates
Albert	Country	John Rosser	Tom Plunkett (CP)
Aubigny	Country	John Tomlinson	Jim Sparkes (CP)
Barcoo	Labor	Ned Davis	James Keehan (QPP)	Reginald Parnell (FBLP)
Baroona	Labor	Bill Power	Kenneth Toombes (QPP)	Henry Beck (Ind) Max Julius (CPA)
Bowen	Communist	John Barry	George McLean (CP)	Fred Paterson (CPA)
Bremer	Labor	Jim Donald	Henry Davidson (QPP)
Brisbane	Labor	Johnno Mann	Maurice Mitchell (QPP)	Charles Coward (Ind Lab)
Bulimba	Independent Labor	Bob Gardner	Hilda Brotherton (QPP)	George Marriott (Ind Lab)
Bundaberg	Frank Barnes Labor	Viv Brown	Geoffrey Boreham (QPP)	Frank Barnes (FBLP)
Buranda	Labor	Dick Brown	William Scott (QPP)
Cairns	Frank Barnes Labor	Thomas Crowley	Ian MacKinnon (CP)	Lou Barnes (FBLP)
Carnarvon	Labor	Paul Hilton	Harold Phillips (CP)
Carpentaria	Labor	Norm Smith		Walter Grant (Ind)
Charters Towers	Labor	Arthur Jones	Reg Smith (CP)	George Carbis (Ind)
Cook	Labor	Harold Collins	Charles Griffin (CP)
Cooroora	Country	Robert Spencer	David Low (CP)	Bill Gresham (FBLP) William Low (Ind CP)
Cunningham	Country	John Hilton	Malcolm McIntyre (CP)
Dalby	Labor	George Wilkes	Charles Russell (CP)
East Toowoomba	Labor	Les Wood	Gordon Chalk (QPP)
Enoggera	People's Party	Mark Scanlan	Kenneth Morris (QPP)
Fassifern	Country	Tom Thorpe	Alf Muller (CP)
Fitzroy	Labor	Jim Clark	Harry Weir (QPP)	Gordon Loukes (FBLP) John Wharton (Ind)
Fortitude Valley	Labor	Samuel Brassington	William Brenan (QPP)	Andrew Knox (Ind)
Gregory	Labor	George Devries	Gordon Lee (CP)
Gympie	Labor	Thomas Dunstan	Ronald Witham (QPP)	Eric Grice (Ind) Ray Smith (FBLP)
Hamilton	People's Party	Vic Bartlett	Harold Taylor (QPP)
Herbert	Labor	Stephen Theodore	Carlisle Wordsworth (CP)	Les Sullivan (CPA)
Ipswich	Labor	David Gledson	Harry Shapcott (QPP)
Isis	Country	Samuel Round	William Brand (CP)
Ithaca	Labor	Ned Hanlon	Frank Roberts (QPP)
Kelvin Grove	Labor	Bert Turner	Kenneth Fielding (QPP)
Kennedy	Labor	Cecil Jesson	Robert Johnston (QPP)	John Clubley (CPA)
Keppel	Labor	Walter Ingram	John Reid (CP)	John Harding (FBLP)
Kurilpa	Labor	Kerry Copley	Doug Berry (QPP)
Logan	People's Party	Ferdinand Scholl	Thomas Hiley (QPP)
Mackay	Labor	Fred Graham	Jack Broughton (CP)
Maranoa	Labor	John Taylor	Finlay Skinner (CP)
Maree	Independent	Leslie Brown	Louis Luckins (QPP)
Maryborough	Labor	David Farrell	Frank Lawrence (QPP)	Mary De Mattos (FBLP)
Merthyr	Labor	Bill Moore	Bert Frost (QPP)
Mirani	Labor	Ted Walsh	Ernie Evans (CP)
Mundingburra	Hermit Park Labor	George Parker		Tom Aikens* (HBLP) Arthur Coburn (Ind)
Murrumba	Country		Frank Nicklin (CP)	Samuel Halpin (Ind)
Nanango	Country	Daniel Carroll	Joh Bjelke-Petersen (CP)	Samuel Andrewartha (Ind Lab) Phil Cameron (FBLP) Cliff Edwards (Ind CP)
Normanby	Labor	Tom Foley	Bill Rundle (CP)	Cecil Chandler (FBLP)
Nundah	Labor	Frank Roberts	Alex Dewar (QPP)
Oxley	People's Party	William Wood	Tom Kerr (QPP)
Port Curtis	Labor	Jim Burrows	William McGreever (CP)	John Daly (Ind) Peter Neilson (FBLP) Alec Paterson (Ind)
Rockhampton	Labor	James Larcombe	Arthur Gordon (QPP)	Edwin Price (Ind) Arthur Webb (FBLP)
Sandgate	People's Party	Ron McAuliffe	Eric Decker (QPP)
South Brisbane	Labor	Vince Gair	Winston Noble (QPP)
Stanley	Country		Duncan MacDonald (CP)	John Hatton (Ind) William Walters (Ind)
The Tableland	Labor	Harry Bruce	Herbert Trackson (CP)	Frank Falls (CPA)
Toowong	People's Party	Frank Venables	Charles Wanstall (QPP)
Toowoomba	Labor	Jack Duggan	Victor Boettcher (QPP)
Townsville	Labor	George Keyatta	Fred Feather (CP)
Warrego	Labor	Harry O'Shea	Robert King (CP)	Cyril Healy (Ind)
Warwick	Labor	John Healy	Otto Madsen (CP)
West Moreton	Country	Jack Ryan	Ted Maher (CP)
Wide Bay	Country	George Stockwell	James Heading (CP)	N F Spence (FBLP)
Windsor	People's Party	Erle Wettemeyer	Bruce Pie (QPP)
Wynnum	Labor	Bill Gunn	Syd Ewart (QPP)	Albert Barrett (Ind) Thomas Ebbage (FBLP)

See also

• 1947 Queensland state election
• Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly, 1944–1947
• Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly, 1947–1950
• List of political parties in Australia

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.