Candidates of the Queensland state election, 1963

Last updated June 21, 2019

This is a list of candidates who stood for the 1963 Queensland state election. The election was held on 1 June 1963.

Elections were held in the Australian state of Queensland on 1 June 1963 to elect the 78 members of the state's Legislative Assembly.

The Queensland Labor Party (QLP) was a political party of Queensland, Australia formed in 1957 by a breakaway group of the then ruling Labor Party Government after the expulsion of Premier Vince Gair. In 1962 the party became the Queensland section of the Democratic Labor Party (DLP). The party continued to hold seats in the Queensland state parliament until 1972, then suffered a collapse in its vote and wound itself up in 1978.

The Democratic Labor Party (DLP) was an Australian political party. The party came into existence following the 1955 Labor split as the Australian Labor Party (Anti-Communist), was renamed the Democratic Labor Party in 1957 and continued to exist until 1978.

By-elections

On 1 July 1961, Eugene O'Donnell (Labor) was elected to succeed Edward Davis (Labor), who had died on 10 March 1961, as the member for Barcoo.
On 1 July 1961, Ron Camm (Country) was elected to succeed Lloyd Roberts, who had died on 11 March 1961, as the member for Whitsunday

Eugene Christopher O'Donnell was a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.

Barcoo was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland from 1885 to 1972.

Ronald Ernest "Ron" Camm was a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.

Retiring Members

Note: Mount Gravatt Liberal MLA Graham Hart resigned shortly before the election; no by-election was held.

Mount Gravatt was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland from 1950 to 2009.

Graham Lloyd Hart was an Australian politician and judge of the Supreme Court of Queensland He was the Liberal member for Mount Gravatt in the Legislative Assembly of Queensland from 1957 to 1963.

Labor

Jim Burrows MLA (Port Curtis)

Liberal

Kenneth Morris MLA (Mount Coot-tha)
Harold Taylor MLA (Clayfield)

Mount Coot-tha was an electoral district in the Legislative Assembly of Queensland in the state of Queensland, Australia from 1950 to 2017.

Harold Bourne "Squizzy" Taylor was a Company executive and member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.

Clayfield is an electoral division of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland. It is centred on the inner northern suburb of Clayfield in the state capital of Brisbane.

Candidates

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

Electorate	Held by	Labor candidate	Coalition candidate	DLP candidate	Other candidates

Albert	Country	Eugene Ulrick	Cec Carey (CP)		Ernest Harley (Ind)
Ashgrove	Liberal	Terry Kearney	Douglas Tooth (Lib)	George Cook
Aspley	Liberal	Edward Humbler	Fred Campbell (Lib)	Brian Balaam
Aubigny	DLP	Bruce Strachan	Somerset Thorn (CP)	Les Diplock
Balonne	Country	Russell Hall	Eddie Beardmore (CP)
Barambah	Country	William Weir	Joh Bjelke-Petersen (CP)		Percy Edwards (Ind)
Barcoo	Labor	Eugene O'Donnell	Gordon Vandersee (CP)
Baroona	Labor	Pat Hanlon	Dawn Stanton (Lib)	Douglas Garsden	Vincent Englart (CPA)
Belmont	Labor	Fred Newton	Cecil Schuurs (Lib)	John Taylor
Bowen	Liberal	John Grafton	Peter Delamothe (Lib)	Jim McCane
Brisbane	Labor	Johnno Mann	James Rowan (Lib)	Jack O'Connell
Bulimba	Labor	Jack Houston	Stan Latham (Lib)	Paul Tucker
Bundaberg	DLP	Matthew Tallon			Ted Walsh (Ind)
Burdekin	Independent	Thomas Niven		Oliver Anderson	Arthur Coburn (Ind)
Burke	Labor	Alec Inch
Burnett	Country	Denis Grace	Claude Wharton (CP)
Cairns	Labor	Watty Wallace	Charles Joy (CP)	Arthur Trembath
Callide	Country	Keith Coombs	Vince Jones (CP)	Nancy Green	Alfred O'Rourke (Ind)
Carnarvon	DLP	Douglas Gow	Henry McKechnie (CP)	Paul Hilton
Chatsworth	Liberal	Bob Bradfield	Thomas Hiley (Lib)	Vince Garrigan
Clayfield	Liberal	Norm Butler	John Murray (Lib)	Jack Dolan
Condamine	Country	Reg Keating	Vic Sullivan (CP)
Cook	DLP	Jack Bethel			Bunny Adair (Ind)
Cooroora	Country	Lancelot Sanderson	David Low (CP)		Theophilus Chapman (Ind)
Cunningham	Country	Brian Davis	Alan Fletcher (CP)	Herbert Scott
Fassifern	Country	Denis O'Brien	Albert Hall (CP)	Kenneth Rawle	Alf Muller (Ind)
Flinders	Country	Charles Rattray	Bill Longeran (CP)	John Judge
Greenslopes	Liberal	John Hughes	Keith Hooper (Lib)	Terry Burns	Eric Allen (SC) Edmund Crisp (CPA)
Gregory	Country	Martin Laracy	Wally Rae (CP)	Bill Hutchinson
Gympie	Country	Blair Jamieson	Max Hodges (CP)	Denis Tanner
Hawthorne	Labor	Bill Baxter	Bill Kaus (Lib)	Rogers Judge
Hinchinbrook	Country	Kevin Cavanagh	John Row (CP)	Jack Williams	George Bordujenko (CPA)
Ipswich East	Labor	Jim Donald	Hedley Scriven (Lib)	Andrij Janicky	Vic Robb (SC)
Ipswich West	Labor	Ivor Marsden	Jim Cochrane (Lib)	Len Maguire
Isis	Country	George Hooper	Jack Pizzey (CP)	Tom Carroll	Arnold Jones (SC)
Ithaca	Liberal	Lou Clifford	Bob Windsor (Lib)	James Ashe	Bruce Tannock (SC)
Kedron	Labor	Eric Lloyd	Hubertus Toonen (Lib)	Ted Doherty	Ron Burrows (Ind)
Kurilpa	Liberal	Bernie Dokter	Clive Hughes (Lib)	Maurice Sheehan	Paul Kenealy (SC)
Landsborough	Country	Frank Freemantle	Frank Nicklin (CP)
Lockyer	Liberal	James Keim	Gordon Chalk (Lib)	Brian Hannan	James Dwyer (Ind)
Logan	Country	William Ware	Leslie Harrison (CP)	Frank Andrews
Mackay	Labor	Fred Graham	John Matson (CP)	Edwin Relf
Mackenzie	Country	Patrick O'Brien	Nev Hewitt (CP)
Maryborough	Labor	Horace Davies	Robert Hunter (CP)	Vincent Wenck	Douglas Devenish (SC)
Merthyr	Liberal	Tom Campbell	Sam Ramsden (Lib)	Geoffrey Traill
Mirani	Country	George Moody	Ernie Evans (CP)
Mount Coot-tha	Liberal	Norm Maddock	Bill Lickiss (Lib)	Max Muller
Mount Gravatt	Liberal	Stuart Barnes	Geoff Chinchen (Lib)	Eric Allingham
Mourilyan	Labor	Peter Byrne	Alf Martinuzzi (CP)	Geoff Higham
Mulgrave	Country	Stanley Scoines	Roy Armstrong (CP)	Charles English
Murrumba	Country	Norman Kruger	David Nicholson (CP)	John Carter	Francis O'Mara (Ind)
Norman	Labor	Fred Bromley	Cyril Ryan (Lib)	Harry Wright	David Gray (SC)
Nudgee	Labor	Jack Melloy	Dennis Hedges (Lib)	Mick O'Connor
Nundah	Liberal	Frank Roberts	William Knox (Lib)	Denis Cleary
Port Curtis	Labor	Martin Hanson		Doug McClarty	Tom Kelly (Ind)
Redcliffe	Independent	Colin McInnes	Jim Houghton (CP)	Michael Doyle	Eric Pritchard (Ind) Ernest Sykes (Ind)
Rockhampton North	Labor	Merv Thackeray	Phil German (Lib)	Richard Wasson
Rockhampton South	Liberal	Charles White	Rex Pilbeam (Lib)	Stan Doolan	Brian Dillon (Ind)
Roma	Country	Herbert Williamson	William Ewan (CP)	Bryan Hurley
Salisbury	Labor	Doug Sherrington	Keith Brough (Lib)	Miroslav Jansky
Sandgate	Labor	Harry Dean	Maurice White (Lib)	Austin McShane
Sherwood	Liberal	Vincent Kitson	John Herbert (Lib)	Len Galligan
Somerset	Country	John Walters	Harold Richter (CP)
South Brisbane	Labor	Col Bennett	Gabrielle Horan (Lib)	Greg Kehoe
South Coast	Country	Irene Weir	Eric Gaven (CP)	Douglas Schwede
Tablelands	Country	Edwin Wallis-Smith	Tom Gilmore (CP)	Leo McManus	Dino Bertoldo (Ind)
Toowong	Liberal	Leslie McGrath	Alan Munro (Lib)	Brian O'Brien
Toowoomba East	Liberal	Peter Wood	Mervyn Anderson (Lib)	Frank Mullins
Toowoomba West	Labor	Jack Duggan	August Dietz (Lib)	Terry Morris
Townsville North	Labor	Perc Tucker	Robert Bonnett (Lib)	Kiernan Dorney	Alfred Reeves (Ind)
Townsville South	NQ Labor	Arthur Trower			Tom Aikens (NQLP)
Warrego	Labor	John Dufficy	Michael Turner (CP)
Warwick	Country	Reggie Wenham	Otto Madsen (CP)	Daniel Skehan
Wavell	Liberal	Benjamin Harriss	Alex Dewar (Lib)	Vincent Bedsor	Merv Goldstiver (SC)
Whitsunday	Country	John Barry	Ron Camm (CP)
Windsor	Liberal	George Georgouras	Ray Smith (Lib)	Owen O'Donoghue
Wynnum	Labor	Bill Gunn	Oswald Brunner (Lib)	Kevin O'Regan
Yeronga	Liberal	Cyril Cusack	Winston Noble (Lib)	Mary Andrews	Roy Phipps (SC)

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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.

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