Candidates of the Queensland state election, 1957

Last updated June 21, 2019

This is a list of candidates who stood for the 1957 Queensland state election. The election was held on 3 August 1957.

Elections were held in the Australian state of Queensland on 3 August 1957 to elect the 75 members of the state's Legislative Assembly. The major parties contesting the election were the Queensland Labor Party led by Premier Vince Gair, the Labor Party led by former Deputy Premier Jack Duggan, and the Country-Liberal coalition led by Frank Nicklin.

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.

By-elections

On 8 December 1956, Pat Hanlon (Labor) was elected to succeed Leonard Eastment (Labor), who had died on 29 July 1956, as the member for Ithaca.

Patrick Joseph "Pat" Hanlon was an Australian politician. He was a Labor member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly from 1956 to 1974, representing the electorates of Ithaca (1956-1960) and Baroona (1960-1974).

Leonard Eastment was an Australian politician. He was the Labor member for Ithaca in the Legislative Assembly of Queensland from 1952 to 1956.

Ithaca was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland from 1912 to 1986.

Retiring Members

Note: Gregory QLP MLA George Devries nominated for re-election, but died before polling day; the election for Gregory was thus postponed.

Gregory is a Legislative Assembly of Queensland electoral district in Queensland, Australia.

George Henry Devries was a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.

Country

Tom Plunkett MLA (Darlington)

Candidates

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

Electorate	Held by	Labor candidate	Coalition candidate	QLP candidate	Other candidates

Aubigny	Country		Jim Sparkes (CP)
Balonne	Labor	John Taylor	Eddie Beardmore (CP)	Henry Bunton
Barambah	Country		Joh Bjelke-Petersen (CP)	Thomas O'Neill
Barcoo	Labor	Ned Davis	Raymond Paynter (CP)	Stanley Barry
Baroona	Labor	Norman Buchan	Robert Thomasson (Lib)	Bill Power
Belyando	Labor	John Williams	Clarence Whyte (CP)	Tom Foley
Bremer	Labor	Jim Donald	George Groth (Lib)	Frank Corbutt
Brisbane	Labor	Johnno Mann	Roger Moore (Lib)	Daniel Casey
Bulimba	Labor	Jack Houston	Bill Lickiss (Lib)	Bob Gardner
Bundaberg	Labor	William Elson-Green	Thomas Pulsford (CP)	Ted Walsh
Buranda	Labor	Dick Brown	Keith Hooper (Lib)	Michael Lyons	John Handasyde (Ind)
Burdekin	Independent	John Grafton		Oliver Andersen	Arthur Coburn (Ind)
Cairns	Labor	Watty Wallace	Clement Cummings (CP)	James Bidner
Callide	Country		Vince Jones (CP)
Carnarvon	Labor	Douglas Gow	Fred Rogers (CP)	Paul Hilton
Carpentaria	Labor	Alec Inch	William Aplin (CP)	Norm Smith
Charters Towers	Labor	Robert Davies	Kieth Siemon (Lib)	Arthur Jones
Chermside	Liberal	Leslie Sampson	Alex Dewar (Lib)	John Parry
Clayfield	Liberal		Harold Taylor (Lib)		James Ryan (Ind)
Condamine	Labor	William Eggington	Stewart Keys (CP)	Les Diplock
Cook	Labor	Seymour Chataway	Carlisle Wordsworth (CP)	Bunny Adair
Cooroora	Country	Ralph Smith	David Low (CP)
Coorparoo	Liberal	Bernard Ouston	Thomas Hiley (Lib)
Cunningham	Country		Alan Fletcher (CP)		Leslie Ott (Ind)
Darlington	Country	Charles Knoll	Leslie Harrison (CP)		Henry Longfield (Ind) Michael Smith (Ind)
Fassifern	Country		Alf Muller (CP)	Kenneth Rawle
Fitzroy	Labor	Jim Clark	Gordon Dunn (Lib)	John Norton
Flinders	Labor	Frank Forde	Bill Longeran (CP)	Bob Katter	Charles Corney (Ind)
Fortitude Valley	Labor	Jack Egerton	Bob Windsor (Lib)	Mick Brosnan
Gregory	Labor	unknown	Wally Rae (CP)	George Devries (died)
Gregory	Labor	Jack Duggan	Wally Rae (CP)	K Smith
Haughton	Labor	Vivien Owens	William Clayton (CP)	Colin McCathie
Hinchinbrook	Labor	Cecil Jesson	John Row (CP)	John Argaet	Francis Curro (Ind)
Ipswich	Labor	Ivor Marsden	Wylie Gibbs (Lib)	Robert Johnstone
Isis	Country		Jack Pizzey (CP)	Edward McDonnell
Ithaca	Labor	Pat Hanlon	Alan Edwards (Lib)	Anthony Machin
Kedron	Labor	Eric Lloyd	Joseph Harris (Lib)	Clive Uhr
Kelvin Grove	Labor	Bert Turner	Douglas Tooth (Lib)	John Dawson
Keppel	Labor	Merv Thackeray	Tom Griffith (Lib)	Viv Cooper	Rex Pilbeam (Ind)
Kurilpa	Labor	Myles Kane	Peter Connolly (Lib)	Tom Moores	George Fry (Ind)
Landsborough	Country		Frank Nicklin (CP)
Lockyer	Liberal		Gordon Chalk (Lib)		Jim Dwyer (Ind)
Mackay	Labor	Fred Graham	William Field (Lib)	Joseph Griffin
Mackenzie	Country	William James	Nev Hewitt (CP)	J T Cook
Marodian	Country	William Weir	James Heading (CP)
Maryborough	Labor	Horace Davies	James Dunn (CP)	Clement Gott
Merthyr	Labor	Tom Campbell	Sam Ramsden (Lib)	Bill Moore
Mirani	Country	James Chataway	Ernie Evans (CP)	Waller O'Grady
Mount Coot-tha	Liberal	Desmond Raven	Kenneth Morris (Lib)	John Lynch
Mount Gravatt	Labor	Felix Dittmer	Graham Hart (Lib)	Charles Edwards	Harold Boone (Ind)
Mourilyan	Labor	Peter Byrne	Edmund Webb (CP)	Alfred Drew	Cecil Evans (Ind)
Mulgrave	Labor	Leslie Trembath	Bob Watson (CP)	Charles English
Mundingburra	NQ Labor	Jim Mahony			Tom Aikens * (NQLP) G F Evans (Ind)
Murrumba	Country	Bertram Krause	David Nicholson (CP)	Michael Ryan
Nash	Labor	George Hooper	Max Hodges (CP)	Greg Kehoe
Norman	Labor	Bill Baxter	George Regan (Lib)	Norman Tacey
North Toowoomba	Labor	Les Wood	Herbert Yeates (Lib)	Francis Bowdler
Nundah	Labor	Dudley Ryder	William Knox (Lib)	Jim Hadley
Port Curtis	Labor	Jim Burrows	Colin Wilson (CP)	Samuel Andrewartha
Rockhampton	Labor	James Fraser	James Marshall (Lib)	Mick Gardner	Thomas Kelly (Ind) Rex Pilbeam (Ind)
Roma	Labor	William Hay	William Ewan (CP)	Alfred Dohring	James Clarke (Ind)
Sandgate	Labor	Harry Dean	Thomas Ahearn (Lib)	Herbert Robinson
Sherwood	Liberal	Doug Sherrington	John Herbert (Lib)	Harry Wright
Somerset	Labor	Evan Marginson	Harold Richter (CP)	Alexander Skinner
South Brisbane	Labor	Tom Doyle	William Henry (Lib)	Vince Gair
Southport	Country	William Bedford	Eric Gaven (CP)
Tablelands	Labor	Sidney Tullipan	Tom Gilmore (CP)	Harold Collins
Toowong	Liberal		Alan Munro (Lib)
Toowoomba	Labor	Jack Duggan	Mervyn Anderson (Lib)	T D McCawley	Vera Lacaze (Ind)
Townsville	Labor	George Keyatta	Roy Pope (Lib)	Lionel Tomlins
Warrego	Labor	John Dufficy	Arnold White (CP)	John Glynn
Warwick	Country		Otto Madsen (CP)	George Wilkinson
Whitsunday	Country	Ralph Staples	Lloyd Roberts (CP)	Bernard Lewis
Windsor	Labor	Kenneth Kemshead	Ray Smith (Lib)	Tom Rasey
Wynnum	Labor	Bill Gunn	Peter McAdam (Lib)	James Pendergast	William St George-Grambauer (Ind)
Yeronga	Liberal	Roy Dent	Winston Noble (Lib)	William Quaill

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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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