Candidates of the 1953 Australian Senate election

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This article provides information on candidates who stood for the 1953 Australian Senate election. The election was held on 9 May 1953.

Contents

By-elections, appointments and defections

By-elections and appointments

Defections

Retiring Senators

Labor

Liberal

Senate

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 (*).

New South Wales

Five seats were up for election. The Labor Party was defending three seats. The Liberal-Country Coalition was defending two seats. Senators John Armstrong (Labor), Bill Ashley (Labor), John McCallum (Liberal), Albert Reid (Country) and Bill Spooner (Liberal) were not up for re-election.

Labor candidates Coalition candidates Communist candidatesUngrouped candidates
  1. Stan Amour *
  2. James Arnold *
  3. Donald Grant *
  1. Alister McMullin * (Lib)
  2. Ken Anderson* (Lib)
  3. Thelma Kirkby (CP)
  1. Jim Healy
  2. Claude Jones
  3. Cecil Connors

Robert Stafford
Hanse Goleby
Edward Spensley

Queensland

Five seats were up for election. The Labor Party was defending two seats. The Liberal-Country Coalition was defending three seats. Senators Archie Benn (Labor), Walter Cooper (Country), Ben Courtice (Labor), Neil O'Sullivan (Liberal) and Annabelle Rankin (Liberal) were not up for re-election.

Labor candidates Coalition candidates Communist candidates Democratic candidates
  1. Condon Byrne *
  2. Gordon Brown *
  3. William Conelan
  1. Ted Maher * (CP)
  2. Ian Wood * (Lib)
  3. Roy Kendall * (Lib)
  1. Albert Robinson
  2. Max Julius
  3. Tom Millar
  1. Sir Raphael Cilento
  2. Henry Herbert
  3. Charles Russell

South Australia

Five seats were up for election. The Labor Party was defending three seats. The Liberal Party was defending two seats. Senators Clive Hannaford (Liberal), Ted Mattner (Liberal), George McLeay (Liberal), Theo Nicholls (Labor) and Sid O'Flaherty (Labor) were not up for re-election.

Labor candidates Liberal candidates Communist candidatesUngrouped candidates
  1. Jack Critchley *
  2. John Ryan *
  3. Jim Toohey*
  1. Rex Pearson *
  2. Keith Laught *
  3. Frederick Boscombe
  1. Edward Robertson
  2. Alan Finger
  3. Elliott Johnston

Sydney Edwards

Tasmania

Six seats were up for election. One of these was a short-term vacancy caused by Liberal Senator Jack Chamberlain's death; this had been filled in the interim by Liberal John Marriott. The Labor Party was defending four seats (although sitting senator Bill Morrow contested the election for the "Tasmanian Labor Party"). The Liberal Party was defending two seats. Senators Allan Guy (Liberal), Denham Henty (Liberal), Nick McKenna (Labor) and Reg Wright (Liberal) were not up for re-election.

Labor candidates Liberal candidates Tasmanian Labor candidatesUngrouped candidates
  1. George Cole *
  2. Justin O'Byrne *
  3. Reg Murray
  4. Bill Aylett *
  1. Robert Wordsworth *
  2. John Marriott *
  3. Robert Wardlaw*
  4. Cedric Moore
  1. Bill Morrow
  2. Andrew Graham
  3. Ian Pearson

Max Bound (CPA)
Robert McEwin

Victoria

Five seats were up for election. The Labor Party was defending two seats. The Liberal Party was defending three seats. Senators Don Cameron (Labor), George Rankin (Country), Charles Sandford (Labor), Jim Sheehan (Labor) and John Spicer (Liberal) were not up for re-election.

Labor candidates Liberal candidates Communist candidates HGJP candidates
  1. Bert Hendrickson *
  2. Jack Devlin *
  3. Pat Kennelly*
  1. John Gorton *
  2. Ivy Wedgwood *
  3. Magnus Cormack
  1. Ralph Gibson
  2. Bill Bird
  3. Frank Hardy
  1. Leslie Bawden
  2. William Pitt
  3. Ivan Robinson

Western Australia

Six seats were up for election. One of these was a short-term vacancy caused by Country Party Senator Edmund Piesse's death; this had been filled in the interim by Bill Robinson, also of the Country Party. The Labor Party was defending two seats. The Liberal-Country Coalition was defending four seats. Senators Agnes Robertson (Liberal), Dorothy Tangney (Labor), Seddon Vincent (Liberal) and Don Willesee (Labor) were not up for re-election.

Labor candidates Coalition candidates Communist candidates APGL candidates Ind Co-op candidates
  1. Joe Cooke *
  2. James Fraser *
  3. John Harris*
  4. Charlie Golding
  1. Malcolm Scott * (Lib)
  2. Harrie Seward * (CP)
  3. Shane Paltridge * (Lib)
  4. Bill Robinson (CP)
  1. Sam Aarons
  2. Jack Coleman
  3. John Gandini
  1. Carlyle Ferguson
  2. Colin Unwin
  1. Claude Swaine
  2. Robert Salter

Summary by party

Beside each party is an indication of whether the party contested the Senate election in each state.

Party NSW Vic Qld WA SA Tas Total
Australian Labor Party ******6
Liberal Party of Australia ******6
Australian Country Party ***3
Communist Party of Australia ******6
Henry George Justice Party *1
Democratic Party of Australia *1
All Parties Government League *1
Independent Co-operationist *1
Tasmanian Labor Party *1

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