Candidates of the Queensland state election, 1977

Last updated June 26, 2019

This is a list of candidates who stood for the 1977 Queensland state election. The election was held on 12 November 1977.

Retiring Members

Note: Clayfield Liberal MLA Ivan Brown and Greenslopes Liberal MLA Keith Hooper had both died prior to the election; no by-elections were held.

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.

Ivan Milton Brown was an Australian politician. He was a Liberal Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland from May 1976 until his sudden death in May 1977.

Electoral district of Greenslopes state electoral district of Queensland, Australia

Greenslopes is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland.

Labor

Harold Dean was a Queensland politician, and served as the member for Sandgate for the Labor from 1960 to 1977.

Electoral district of Sandgate state electoral district of Queensland, Australia

Sandgate is an electoral division in the state of Queensland, Australia.

Evan Marginson was an Australian politician. He was a Labor member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland from 1969 to 1977, representing Ipswich East until 1972 and Wolston thereafter.

National

David Cory MLA (Warwick)

Liberal

Geoffrey Talbot Chinchen MBE DFC was a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly. He was also a member of the RAAF in World War Two who escaped from a German Prisoner of War Camp.

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

Arthur Pinkerton Crawford was a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.

Candidates

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

Electorate	Held by	Labor candidate	Coalition candidate	Other candidates

Albert	National	Cecil Clark Denis O'Connell	Ivan Gibbs (Nat)	Ace Drabsch (Ind) Alex McMillan (Ind)
Archerfield	Labor	Kevin Hooper	John Armstrong (Nat) Bevan Fleming (Lib) George Kalaja (Nat)
Ashgrove	Liberal	Pat Comben	John Greenwood (Lib)	Gary Sturgess (Prog)
Aspley	Liberal	Philip Gray	Fred Campbell (Lib)
Auburn	National	Jeffrey Lenz	Nev Hewitt (Nat)	David Trevilyan (Prog)
Balonne	National	Robert Saltau	Don Neal (Nat)
Barambah	National	John Hunt	Joh Bjelke-Petersen (Nat)
Barron River	National	Keith De Lacy	Martin Tenni (Nat)
Brisbane Central	Liberal	Brian Davis	Dennis Young (Lib)	Dennis Bailey (SPA)
Bulimba	Labor	Jack Houston	John Leggoe (Lib)
Bundaberg	Labor	Jim Blake	Bryan Conquest (Nat) John Heaps (Lib)	Lou Jensen (Ind)
Burdekin	National	Alex Brown	Val Bird (Nat)
Burnett	National	Andrew Jackson	Claude Wharton (Nat)
Caboolture	National	Francis Freemantle John McLoughlin	Des Frawley (Nat)
Cairns	Labor	Ray Jones	Charles Bellairs (Lib) Victor Piccone (Nat)	Neville Modystack (Dem)
Callide	National	John O'Sullivan	Lindsay Hartwig (Nat)
Carnarvon	National	Colin Batterham	Peter McKechnie (Nat)
Chatsworth	Liberal	Terry Mackenroth	David Byrne (Lib)
Condamine	National	Noel Wormald	Vic Sullivan (Nat)	Lloyd Drabsch (Ind) Lindsay Sturgess (Prog)
Cook	National	Bob Scott	Eric Deeral (Nat)	Ted Loban (AAP)
Cooroora	National	Donald Sime	Gordon Simpson * (Nat) John Williams (Lib)
Cunningham	National	Trevor Peacock	Tony Elliott (Nat)	Valerie O'Phee (Dem)
Everton	Liberal	Glen Milliner	Brian Lindsay (Lib)	Owen C. Pershouse (Prog)
Fassifern	National	Stephen Limbach	Selwyn Muller (Nat)
Flinders	National	Edward Schunemann	Bob Katter (Nat)	Owen H. Pershouse (Prog)
Greenslopes	Liberal	Lewin Blazevich	Noel Cannon (Nat) Bill Hewitt * (Lib)	David Anning (Dem)
Gregory	National	Gordon Saunders	Bill Glasson (Nat)
Gympie	National	Reginald Lawler	Max Hodges (Nat)	William Runge (Prog)
Hinchinbrook	National	James Byrne	Ted Row (Nat)
Ipswich	Liberal	Joseph Sciacca	Llewellyn Edwards (Lib)
Ipswich West	National	David Underwood	Albert Hales (Nat) Barry Spark (Lib)
Isis	National	Phillip Barnsley	Lin Powell * (Nat) Mary Spurway (Lib)	James Dobson (Ind)
Ithaca	Liberal	Francis Gilbert	Col Miller (Lib)	Paul Rackemann (Prog)
Kurilpa	Liberal	John Saunders	Sam Doumany (Lib)	Fred Drake (Prog) Stanley Stanley (Dem)
Landsborough	National	Joan Kiely	Mike Ahern (Nat)
Lockyer	Liberal	Norma Jones	Tony Bourke (Lib)	Brian Otto (Dem) William Pechey (Ind)
Lytton	Labor	Tom Burns	Rodney Bristow (Lib)
Mackay	Independent	Ed Casey	Jeanette Bevan (Lib) Fitzroy McLean (Nat)	Sebastian Torrisi (Ind)
Mansfield	Liberal	Harry Zaphir	Bill Kaus (Lib)	John McKay (Prog)
Maryborough	Liberal	Brendan Hansen	Gilbert Alison (Lib)
Merthyr	Liberal	Barbara Dawson	Don Lane (Lib)	Harold Scruton (Prog)
Mirani	National	Conrad Nicolai	Tom Newbery (Nat)
Mount Coot-tha	Liberal	Jon Stanford	Bill Lickiss (Lib)	Wallace Younger (Prog)
Mount Gravatt	Liberal	George Harvey	Ian Henderson (Nat) Guelfi Scassola* (Lib)	Desmond McKay (Prog)
Mount Isa	National	Alex Pavusa	Angelo Bertoni (Nat)	Anthony Assan (Ind) Nelson Gavenor (Ind) Keith Spanner (Prog)
Mourilyan	National	Peter Moore	Vicky Kippin (Nat)	John Jones (Ind)
Mulgrave	National	Bill Eaton	Roy Armstrong (Nat)
Murrumba	National	Joe Kruger	Agnes Campbell (Nat) Brian Frawley (Nat) Stephen Thomason (Lib)
Nudgee	Labor	Ken Vaughan	Denis Simonyi (Lib)
Nundah	Liberal	Leonard Hingley	William Knox (Lib)
Peak Downs	National	Leonard Nicholson	Vince Lester (Nat)
Pine Rivers	Liberal	Ken Leese	Rob Akers (Lib)	Rodney Jeanneret (Prog)
Port Curtis	Labor	Bill Prest	Barry Johnson (Nat) John Mawer (Lib)	Michael Berry (Prog)
Redcliffe	National	Roderick Lugton	Jim Houghton * (Nat) Terry White (Lib)	Gregory Gaffney (Prog)
Redlands	National	Con Sciacca	John Goleby * (Nat) Peter Hunter (Lib)
Rockhampton	Labor	Keith Wright	Douglas Cuddy (Lib) Charles Doblo (Nat)	Graham James (Prog)
Rockhampton North	Labor	Les Yewdale	Donald King (Nat) James Rundle (Lib)
Roma	National	Ronald Saltau	Ken Tomkins (Nat)	James Tomlinson (Prog)
Salisbury	Liberal	William Wilcox	Rosemary Kyburz (Lib)
Sandgate	Labor	Nev Warburton	Donald Connolly (Lib) Peter Jackman (Nat)
Sherwood	Liberal	Michael Kinnane	John Herbert (Lib)	Judith Forbes (Prog)
Somerset	National	Ronald Hazelden	Bill Gunn (Nat)	Thomas Flynn-O'Connor (Dem)
South Brisbane	Liberal	Jim Fouras	David Smith (Lib)	William Everaarps (Prog)
South Coast	National	Ennis Groom	Russ Hinze (Nat)	James Drabsch (Ind)
Southport	National	Reginald Carter	Norman Rix (Nat) Peter White* (Lib)	William Aabraham-Steer (Ind)
Stafford	Liberal	Roy Harvey	Terry Gygar (Lib)
Surfers Paradise	National	Philip Button	Bruce Bishop* (Lib) Sir Bruce Small (Nat)	Ronald Holland (Dem) Donald Wright (Prog)
Toowong	Liberal	Athol Kennedy	Charles Porter (Lib)	Gordon Oulsnam (Prog) Michael West (Dem)
Toowoomba North	Liberal	Ray Bousen	John Lockwood (Lib)	Michael Farrell (Prog) Clifford Knight (Dem)
Toowoomba South	National	Peter Wood	John Warner (Nat)	Michael Clifford (Dem)
Townsville	Liberal	Helen Jeffrey	Norman Scott-Young (Lib)	Kelly Crombie (Prog) Robert Murray (Ind)
Townsville South	Independent	Alex Wilson		Tom Aikens (Ind) Eric Milne (Ind)
Townsville West	National	Geoff Smith	Fred Greensill (Lib) Max Hooper * (Nat)	Lilian Malcolm (Ind)
Warrego	National	Michael Gordon	Neil Turner (Nat)	Colin Drake (Prog)
Warwick	National	Graham Dorman	Des Booth* (Nat) Raymond McNamara (Lib)
Wavell	Liberal	Jack Geran	Brian Austin* (Lib) Charles Mortensen (Nat)	Barry Smith (Prog)
Whitsunday	National	Stanley Yardley	Ron Camm (Nat)	Robert Fordham (Dem)
Windsor	Liberal	Louis McKenzie	Bob Moore (Lib)
Wolston	Labor	Bob Gibbs	Ruth Buchanan (Nat) Owen Nugent (Lib)
Woodridge	Liberal	Bill D'Arcy	Colin Lamont (Lib) Douglas Ralston (Nat)	Albert Guest (Ind)
Wynnum	National	Eric Shaw	Douglas Graeme-Clark (Lib) Bill Lamond (Nat)	Graham Shuker (Dem)
Yeronga	Liberal	Lance Maguire	Norm Lee (Lib)	Peter Stevenson (Prog)

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References

Hughes, Colin A., Don Aitken (1987). Voting for the Australian state lower houses, 1975-1984. Canberra: Dept. of Political Science, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University. ISBN 0909779244.

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