Candidates of the Queensland state election, 1966

Last updated June 26, 2019

This is a list of candidates who stood for the 1966 Queensland state election. The election was held on 28 May 1966.

Retiring Members

Note: Logan Country MLA Leslie Harrison resigned before the election; no by-election was held.

Logan is an electoral district in southern Queensland, Australia.

Robert Leslie "Leslie" Harrison was a dairy farmer and member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.

Labor

Bill Gunn MLA (Wynnum)
Ivor Marsden MLA (Ipswich West)

Bill Gunn (Queensland politician) Australian politician in Queensland

William Morrison "Bill" Gunn was a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.

Wynnum was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland from 1923 to 1986.

Ivor Marsden was a police officer and member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.

Country

Eric Gaven MLA (South Coast)

Liberal

Mervyn John Reginald "Curly" Anderson was a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.

The Electoral district of Toowoomba East was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland. It was created with the 1960 redistribution and removed by the 1972 redistribution.

Sir Thomas Alfred Hiley, was Treasurer of the Australian state of Queensland from 1957 to 1965.

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	Harold Evans	Cec Carey * (CP) Ernest Harley (Lib)	Patrick Hallinan
Ashgrove	Liberal	Richard Gill	Douglas Tooth (Lib)	George Cook
Aspley	Liberal	John Purtell	Fred Campbell (Lib)	Rogers Judge
Aubigny	DLP	Peter Fitzpatrick	John Corfe (CP)	Les Diplock
Balonne	Country	Ben Ward	Eddie Beardmore (CP)
Barambah	Country	Norman Hasemann	Joh Bjelke-Petersen (CP)
Barcoo	Labor	Eugene O'Donnell	Michael Cronin (CP)	Edward Eshmann
Baroona	Labor	Pat Hanlon	Ian Barron (Lib)	Anthony Machin	Brian Moynihan (CPA)
Belmont	Labor	Fred Newton	Oswald Brunner (Lib)	John Taylor
Bowen	Liberal	John Gralton	Peter Delamothe (Lib)	James McCane
Brisbane	Labor	Johnno Mann	Brian Cahill (Lib)	John O'Connell
Bulimba	Labor	Jack Houston	Brian Perkins (Lib)	Paul Tucker
Bundaberg	Independent	Matt Tallon			Ted Walsh (Ind)
Burdekin	Independent	Herbert O'Brien	Stanley Pearce (Lib)	Oliver Anderson	Arthur Coburn (Ind)
Burke	Labor	Alec Inch	William Presley (Lib)		John Donaldson (SC)
Burnett	Country	Alexander Craig	Claude Wharton (CP)
Cairns	Labor	Ray Jones	David De Jarlais (Lib) John Franzmann (CP)	Arthur Trembath	Colin Penridge (Ind)
Callide	Country	Wilfred Prisgrove	Vince Jones (CP)	Edgar Lanigan
Carnarvon	Country	Douglas Gow	Henry McKechnie (CP)	Frederick Burges
Chatsworth	Liberal	John Cleary	Bill Hewitt (Lib)	Vincent Garrigan	Douglas Wallace (Ind)
Clayfield	Liberal	Bruce Strachan	John Murray (Lib)	Mary Ryan
Condamine	Country	Roderick Blundell	Vic Sullivan (CP)
Cook	Independent	Jack Bethel			Bunny Adair (Ind)
Cooroora	Country	Kenneth Kliese	David Low (CP)
Cunningham	Country	Brian Davis	Alan Fletcher (CP)	Alexander Browne
Fassifern	Independent	Denis O'Brien	Alf Muller (CP)	Gordon Blain	Victor Robb (SC)
Flinders	Country	Peter McKitrick	Bill Longeran (CP)	John Judge	Charles Rowe (Ind)
Greenslopes	Liberal	Cecil Chandler	Keith Hooper (Lib)	Harold Wright
Gregory	Country	Gilbert Burns	Wally Rae (CP)	David Parker
Gympie	Country	Marcus Dower	Max Hodges (CP)	Denis Tanner
Hawthorne	Labor	Thomas Burton	Bill Kaus (Lib)	Greg Kehoe	Bill Baxter (Ind)
Hinchinbrook	Country	Natale Palanza	John Row (CP)	John Williams
Ipswich East	Labor	Jim Donald	Hedley Scriven (Lib)		Douglas Wood (Ind)
Ipswich West	Labor	Vi Jordan	Allan Whybird (Lib)	Leonard Maguire	James Finimore (Ind)
Isis	Country	George Hooper	Jack Pizzey (CP)	Brian Hawes
Ithaca	Liberal	Samuel Hudson	Col Miller (Lib)	James Ashe
Kedron	Labor	Eric Lloyd	Christian Jesberg (Lib)	Edward Doherty
Kurilpa	Liberal	Leslie Buckley	Clive Hughes (Lib)	Felix Doolan	William Smith (SC)
Landsborough	Country	Frank Freemantle	Frank Nicklin (CP)
Lockyer	Liberal	James Keim	Gordon Chalk (Lib)
Logan	Country	William Ware	Francis Dennis (Lib) Dick Wood* (CP)	Maurice Sheehan	Paul Kenealy (SC) Laurence Storey (Ind)
Mackay	Labor	Fred Graham	Roylance Eastment (CP)	T J Hayes
Mackenzie	Country		Nev Hewitt (CP)
Maryborough	Labor	Horace Davies	Ernest Jurss (CP)	William Hutchinson	Arnold Jones (SC)
Merthyr	Liberal	Brian Mellifont	Sam Ramsden (Lib)	Laurence Kehoe
Mirani	Country	Gustav Creber	Tom Newbery (CP)	Edward Relf
Mount Coot-tha	Liberal	Barry Gorman	Bill Lickiss (Lib)	Maxwell Muller
Mount Gravatt	Liberal	Peter Rowe	Geoff Chinchen (Lib)	Kenneth Bayliss
Mourilyan	Labor	Peter Byrne	Alfred Martinuzzi (CP)	Geoffrey Higham
Mulgrave	Country	Stanley Dalton	Roy Armstrong (CP)
Murrumba	Labor	Norm Kruger	Marshall Cooke (Lib) David Nicholson * (CP)	Robert Vlug	David Bishop (Ind)
Norman	Labor	Fred Bromley	Sydney Shawcross (Lib)	John Fitz-Gibbon	David Gray (SC)
Nudgee	Labor	Jack Melloy	Kenneth Nugent (Lib)		William Hill (CPA)
Nundah	Liberal	John Carey	William Knox (Lib)	Michael Green
Port Curtis	Labor	Martin Hanson	James Grant (CP) John McGee (Lib)
Redcliffe	Country	William Hunter	Robert Elder (Lib) Jim Houghton * (CP)	James Morrissey
Rockhampton North	Labor	Merv Thackeray	Robert Woodrow (Lib)	Iris Burke
Rockhampton South	Liberal	Kevin Charles	Rex Pilbeam (Lib)	Peter Boyle
Roma	Country	Marcus Thew	William Ewan (CP)
Salisbury	Labor	Doug Sherrington	Keith Brough (Lib)
Sandgate	Labor	Harry Dean	Colin Clark (Lib)	Reginald Lincoln
Sherwood	Liberal	Gilbert Thorsen	John Herbert (Lib)
Somerset	Country	Jacobus Van Der Lelie	Harold Richter (CP)	Naomi Grulke	John Rasmussen (Ind)
South Brisbane	Labor	Col Bennett	Cecil Schuurs (Lib)	Mervyn Eunson	Warren Bowden (CPA)
South Coast	Country	Kevin Cummings	Russ Hinze* (CP) Herbert Winders (Lib)	John McWatters	Bernard Elsey (Ind)
Tablelands	Labor	Edwin Wallis-Smith	Tom Gilmore (CP)	V Rehbein
Toowong	Liberal	Douglas Wallace	Charles Porter (Lib)	Brian O'Brien
Toowoomba East	Liberal	Peter Wood	John McCafferty (CP) Lawrence Storey (Lib)	Francis Mullins	Gladys O'Sullivan (Ind)
Toowoomba West	Labor	Jack Duggan	Clifford Leavy (Lib)	Terry Morris
Townsville North	Labor	Perc Tucker	Robert Bonnett (Lib)	J J McManus
Townsville South	Independent	Arthur Trower			Tom Aikens * (Ind) Francis Bishop (CPA)
Warrego	Labor	John Dufficy
Warwick	Country	Eric Barrett	David Cory (CP)	Daniel Skehan
Wavell	Liberal	Herbert Bromley	Alex Dewar (Lib)	Thomas Grundy	Desmond Fulton (Ind) Mervyn Goldstiver (SC)
Whitsunday	Country	Bernard Kirwan	Ron Camm (CP)	Bernard Lewis
Windsor	Liberal	Keith Fordyce	Ray Smith (Lib)	Vincent Wenck
Wynnum	Labor	Ted Harris	Ian Beath (Lib)	Terence Burns	Stella Nord (CPA)
Yeronga	Liberal	Jack Davis	Norm Lee (Lib)	John Lamberth

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References

Hughes, Colin A. (1977). 1965-1974 Election Results. Canberra: Australian Nat. Univ. Pr. ISBN 0708113400.

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