Candidates of the 1953 Queensland state election

The 1953 state election in Queensland, Australia was held on 7 March 1953.

By-elections

• On 18 November 1950, Mick Brosnan (Labor) was elected to succeed Samuel Brassington (Labor), who had died on 4 October 1950, as the member for Fortitude Valley.
• On 3 March 1951, John Dufficy (Labor) was elected to succeed Harry O'Shea (Labor), who had died on 4 November 1950, as the member for Warrego.
• On 14 April 1951, Eric Lloyd (Labor) was elected to succeed Bruce Pie (Liberal), who had resigned on 6 January 1951, as the member for Kedron.
• On 5 April 1952, Leonard Eastment was elected to succeed Ned Hanlon (Labor), who had died on 15 January 1952, as the member for Ithaca.
• On 25 October 1952, Viv Cooper (Labor) was elected to succeed Walter Ingram (Labor), who had died on 24 July 1952, as the member for Keppel.

Retiring Members

Labor

• Thomas Dunstan MLA (Nash)

Country

• Duncan MacDonald MLA (Somerset)
• Malcolm McIntyre MLA (Cunningham)

Liberal

• Louis Luckins MLA (Norman)

Candidates

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

Electorate	Held by	Labor candidate	Coalition candidate	Other candidates
Aubigny	Country		Jim Sparkes (CP)	Vic Sullivan (Ind)
Balonne	Labor	John Taylor	Claude Dunshea (CP)
Barambah	Country		Joh Bjelke-Petersen (CP)
Barcoo	Labor	Ned Davis
Baroona	Labor	Bill Power
Belyando	Labor	Tom Foley
Bremer	Labor	Jim Donald
Brisbane	Labor	Johnno Mann		Laura Hansen (CPA) Colin Nonmus (SC)
Bulimba	Labor	Bob Gardner	Ronald Holt (Lib)
Bundaberg	Labor	Ted Walsh	Willie Howard (Lib)	James Julin (Ind)
Buranda	Labor	Dick Brown	Cecil Holt (Lib)
Burdekin	Independent	William Wall		Arthur Coburn (Ind)
Cairns	Labor	Thomas Crowley	Arthur Keller (CP)	Charles Crawley (PLP) Cedric Dyer (CPA)
Callide	Country	Patrick Moore	Vince Jones (CP)
Carnarvon	Labor	Paul Hilton	Eric McCorkell (CP)
Carpentaria	Labor	Norm Smith	William Aplin (CP)
Charters Towers	Labor	Arthur Jones
Chermside	Liberal	Kenneth McRae	Alex Dewar (Lib)
Clayfield	Liberal		Harold Taylor (Lib)
Condamine	Country	Les Diplock	Eric Allpass (CP)
Cook	Country	Bunny Adair	Carlisle Wordsworth (CP)
Cooroora	Country	Geoffrey Arnell	David Low (CP)
Coorparoo	Liberal	Gerald Maher	Thomas Hiley (Lib)
Cunningham	Country	Robert Bradfield	Alan Fletcher (CP)
Darlington	Country	Charles Knoll	Tom Plunkett (CP)	William Yarrow (CPA)
Fassifern	Country		Alf Muller (CP)	Oliver Hooper (Ind)
Fitzroy	Labor	Jim Clark	William Hoare (Lib)	Eric Browne (CPA)
Flinders	Labor	Ernest Riordan
Fortitude Valley	Labor	Mick Brosnan		Albert Graham (CPA) John Marion (SC)
Gregory	Labor	George Devries
Haughton	Labor	Colin McCathie	Frederick Purdie (CP)	Ernest O'Brien (NQLP)
Hinchinbrook	Labor	Cecil Jesson	James Ryan (Lib)	Douglas Jeffrey (Ind)
Ipswich	Labor	Ivor Marsden		Richard Cobb (CPA)
Isis	Country	John Barron	Jack Pizzey (CP)
Ithaca	Labor	Leonard Eastment	Douglas Lowndes (Lib)	Herbert Heritage (CPA)
Kedron	Labor	Eric Lloyd	John Harris (Lib)
Kelvin Grove	Labor	Bert Turner	Mary Lahey (Lib)
Keppel	Labor	Viv Cooper	Alfred Ganter (CP)	Tolstoy Birkbeck (Ind)
Kurilpa	Labor	Tom Moores	Lilian Derrick (Lib)	Richard Boorman (SC) Sydney Clare (Ind) Anna Slater (CPA)
Landsborough	Country		Frank Nicklin (CP)
Lockyer	Liberal	John Hilton	Gordon Chalk (Lib)
Mackay	Labor	Fred Graham	Flora Johnson (Lib)
Mackenzie	Labor	Paddy Whyte	James Lawrence (CP)
Marodian	Country	Sydney Campbell	James Heading (CP)
Maryborough	Labor	David Farrell		Charles Reed (CPA) Cyril Tanner (Ind)
Merthyr	Labor	Bill Moore	William Knox (Lib)
Mirani	Country	Roger Scanlan	Ernie Evans (CP)
Mount Coot-tha	Liberal	Vlad Darveniza	Kenneth Morris (Lib)
Mount Gravatt	Labor	Felix Dittmer	Daniel Rowley (Lib)	George Bordujenko (CPA)
Mourilyan	Labor	Peter Byrne	John Castor (CP)	Bertie Clark (CPA)
Mulgrave	Country	Charles English	Bob Watson (CP)
Mundingburra	NQ Labor	Daniel Gleeson	Christopher Wordsworth (Lib)	Tom Aikens (NQLP)
Murrumba	Country	Kenneth Griffith	David Nicholson (CP)
Nash	Labor	Greg Kehoe	Ronald Witham (Lib)
Norman	Liberal	Bill Baxter	Rex Brock (Lib)
North Toowoomba	Labor	Les Wood	John Groom (Lib)
Nundah	Labor	Frank Roberts	Nellie Taylor (Lib)
Port Curtis	Labor	Jim Burrows	Julia Hinds (Lib)
Rockhampton	Labor	James Larcombe	Thomas Donohoe (Lib)	Thomas Kelly (Ind)
Roma	Country	Alfred Dohring	William Ewan (CP)
Sandgate	Liberal	Herbert Robinson	Eric Decker (Lib)
Sherwood	Liberal	Robert Mansfield	Tom Kerr (Lib)	Pablo O'Dowd (Ind)
Somerset	Country	Alexander Skinner	James Brough (CP)
South Brisbane	Labor	Vince Gair	Geoffrey Wadeson (Lib)	John Parker (Ind)
Southport	Country	Edgar Hill	Eric Gaven (CP)
Tablelands	Labor	Harold Collins	James Baldock (CP)	Richard Anear (CPA)
Toowong	Liberal	Frank Venables	Alan Munro (Lib)
Toowoomba	Labor	Jack Duggan	Frank Farnell (Lib)
Townsville	Labor	George Keyatta	Archibald Hooper (Lib)	Hugh Fay (CPA) Kevin Gormley (NQLP)
Warrego	Labor	John Dufficy
Warwick	Country	John O'Brien	Otto Madsen (CP)
Whitsunday	Country	Hugh MacLennan	Lloyd Roberts (CP)	Jim Henderson (CPA)
Windsor	Labor	Tom Rasey	John Cutting (Lib)
Wynnum	Labor	Bill Gunn	Charles Mengel (Lib)
Yeronga	Liberal	Tom Doyle	Winston Noble (Lib)

See also

• 1953 Queensland state election
• Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly, 1950–1953
• Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly, 1953–1956
• 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.