This article provides information on candidates who stood for the 1931 Australian federal election. The election was held on 19 December 1931.
In 1931, the Nationalist Party had become the United Australia Party, absorbing several Labor defectors. In New South Wales, the Labor Party split, with the Lang Labor group voting against the Labor government. Seats held by Labor defectors are here considered to be held by the Labor Party.
Sitting members at the time of the election 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 | Independent candidate |
---|---|---|---|
Northern Territory | Labor | Harold Nelson | William Easton (Ind) John McMillan (Ind Lab) |
Electorate | Held by | Labor candidate | Coalition candidate | Other candidates |
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Brisbane | United Australia | George Lawson | Donald Cameron (UAP) | Hugh Talty (LL) |
Capricornia | Labor | Frank Forde | Robert Staines (CP) | |
Darling Downs | United Australia | Arthur Morgan (UAP) | Sir Littleton Groom* (Ind) Herbert Yeates (Ind) | |
Herbert | Labor | George Martens | Grosvenor Francis (UAP) | |
Kennedy | Labor | Darby Riordan | Jim Clarke (UAP) | |
Lilley | United Australia | George Mackay (UAP) | Alexander Costello (Ind Lab) Frank Mason (SC) | |
Maranoa | Country | Myles Ferricks | James Hunter (CP) | |
Moreton | United Australia | Josiah Francis (UAP) | ||
Oxley | United Australia | Francis Baker | James Bayley (UAP) | Frank Pforr (LL) |
Wide Bay | Country | Bernard Corser (CP) |
Electorate | Held by | Labor candidate | EC candidate | Other candidates |
---|---|---|---|---|
Adelaide | Labor | George Edwin Yates | Fred Stacey | Agnes Goode (Ind) Tom Howard (LL) Crawford Vaughan (L-L) John Zwolsman (CPA) |
Angas | Labor | David Fraser | Moses Gabb [1] | |
Barker | Emergency | Cyril Hasse | Malcolm Cameron | Percy Spehr (Ind) |
Boothby | Labor | Cecil Skitch | John Price | Sam Lindsay (ST) |
Grey | Labor | Andrew Lacey | Philip McBride | Alfred Barns (Ind) James Hodgson (ST) |
Hindmarsh | Labor | Norman Makin | Ernest Evans | Sid O'Flaherty (LL) |
Wakefield | Emergency | Charles Hawker | Maurice Collins (Ind CP) |
Electorate | Held by | Labor candidate | UAP candidate | Other candidates |
---|---|---|---|---|
Bass | Labor | Claude Barnard | Allan Guy | Harold Solomon (Nat) |
Darwin | United Australia | Joseph McGrath | George Bell | |
Denison | Labor | Charles Culley | Arthur Hutchin | |
Franklin | Labor | Charles Frost | Archibald Blacklow | Albert Beard (Ind) |
Wilmot | Labor | George Becker | Joseph Lyons | George Pullen (Nat) |
Electorate | Held by | Labor candidate | Coalition candidate | Other candidates |
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Forrest | Country | John Prowse (CP) | ||
Fremantle | Labor | John Curtin | Keith Watson (UAP) | William Watson (Ind) |
Kalgoorlie | Labor | Albert Green | William Pickering (CP) George Rainsford (UAP) | |
Perth | United Australia | John Moloney | Walter Nairn (UAP) | |
Swan | Country | John Fraser | Henry Gregory (CP) | Carlyle Ferguson (Ind) Alfred Reynolds (Ind CP) |
Sitting Senators are shown in bold text. Tickets that elected at least one Senator are highlighted in the relevant colour. Successful candidates are identified by an asterisk (*).
Three seats were up for election. The United Australia Party was defending three seats. Labor Senator John Dooley and NSW Labor Senators James Dunn and Arthur Rae were not up for re-election.
Labor candidates | Coalition candidates | Lang Labor candidates | Other candidates |
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John Bailey Hilton Blackburn Albert Gardiner | Charles Cox * (UAP) Walter Massy-Greene * (UAP) Charles Hardy* (CP) | Christopher Anderson Tom Arthur Ernest Barker | James Dooley (Ind Lab) George McDonald (Ind) Lance Sharkey (CPA) Abraham Taylor (Ind) |
Three seats were up for election. The United Australia Party-Country Party Coalition was defending three seats. United Australia Party Senators Thomas Crawford, Harry Foll and Matthew Reid were not up for re-election.
Labor candidates | Coalition candidates | Other candidates |
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Gordon Brown* Joe Collings* John MacDonald* | Walter Cooper (CP) Sir William Glasgow (UAP) William Thompson (UAP) | Fred Paterson (CPA) |
Three seats were up for election. The Emergency Committee of South Australia was defending three seats. Labor Senators John Daly, Bert Hoare and Mick O'Halloran were not up for re-election.
Labor candidates | EC candidates | Independent candidates |
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Harry Kneebone John Verran Frederick Ward | Oliver Badman* Jack Duncan-Hughes* Alexander McLachlan * | Raphael Cilento Ruth Ravenscroft |
Three seats were up for election. The United Australia Party was defending three seats. United Australia Party Senators John Hayes, Herbert Hays and James Ogden were not up for re-election.
Labor candidates | UAP candidates |
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Thomas Jude David O'Keefe Walter Woods | Andrew Cooper James Counsel Bayard Edgell Syd Jackson John Millen * Herbert Payne * Benjamin Pearsall Herbert Postle Burford Sampson * |
Three seats were up for election. The United Australia Party was defending three seats. Labor Senator John Barnes, United Australia Party Senator Harry Lawson and Country Party Senator Robert Elliott were not up for re-election.
Labor candidates | UAP candidates | Other candidates |
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Don Cameron Jim Sheehan Alf Wallis | Tom Brennan * James Guthrie * William Plain * | Alured Kelly (Ind Nat) William Murchison (Ind UAP) Harold Partridge (CPA) |
Three seats were up for election. The United Australia Party-Country Party Coalition was defending three seats. United Australia Party Senators Sir Hal Colebatch and Walter Kingsmill and Country Party Senator Bertie Johnston were not up for re-election.
Labor candidates | Coalition candidates | Other candidates |
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George Gaunt Louis Greive Ted Needham | William Carroll * (CP) Patrick Lynch * (UAP) Sir George Pearce * (UAP) | Findlay MacKay (CPA) John Thomson (Ind CP) |
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