# Candidates of the 1920 Queensland state election

This is a list of candidates who stood for the 1920 state election in Queensland, Australia.The election was held on 9 October 1920.
Since the previous election in 1918, the Country Party had formed, and had been joined by many sitting National Party MPs. Four parties – the National, Country, Northern Country and National Labor parties – operated as a coalition in this election.

## By-elections

* On 20 December 1919, Frank Bulcock (Labor) was elected to succeed T. J. Ryan (Labor), who had resigned on 14 October 1919, as the member for Barcoo.
* On 20 December 1919, Tom Foley (Labor) was elected to succeed Herbert Hardacre (Labor), who had resigned on 14 October 1919, as the member for Leichhardt.
* On 20 December 1919, Thomas Spencer (National) was elected to succeed John McEwan Hunter (Labor), who had died on 22 October 1919, as the member for Maranoa.
* On 10 April 1920, Percy Pease (Labor) was elected to succeed William Lennon (Labor), who had resigned on 16 January 1920, as the member for Herbert.

## Retiring members

* Note: Mundingburra Labor MLA Thomas Foley had died prior to the election; no by-election was held.

### Labor

* Edgar Free MLA (South Brisbane)

### Nationalist

* Donald Gunn MLA (Carnarvon)
* Edward Macartney MLA (Toowong)
* Henry Somerset MLA (Stanley)

### Independent

* Francis Grayson MLA (Cunningham)

## 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 | Richard Holden | John Appel (CP) | |
| Aubigny | National | William Brady | Arthur Moore (CP) | |
| Balonne | Labor | Edward Land | Richard Nantes (CP) | |
| Barcoo | Labor | Frank Bulcock | James Cullen (NCP) | |
| Bowen | Labor | Charles Collins | John Leahy (NCP) | |
| Bremer | Labor | Frank Cooper | Alfred Stephenson (Nat) | Albert Welsby (Indust) |
| Brisbane | Labor | Mick Kirwan | Patrick Currie (Nat) | |
| Bulimba | National | George Marriott | Walter Barnes (Nat) | |
| Bundaberg | Labor | George Barber | John Forgan (CP) | |
| Buranda | Labor | John Huxham | Alfred Faulkner (Nat) | |
| Burke | Labor | Darby Riordan | John Williamson (NCP) | |
| Burnett | National | Francis Hill | Bernard Corser (CP) | |
| Burrum | Labor | Albert Whitford | William Brand (CP) | |
| Cairns | Labor | William McCormack | Charles Hives (NCP) | |
| Carnarvon | National | Alfred Jones | Edward Costello (CP) | |
| Charters Towers | Labor | William Wellington | David Guthrie (NCP) | |
| Chillagoe | Labor | Ted Theodore | John Egerton (NCP) | |
| Cook | Labor | Henry Ryan | Frederick Craig (NCP) | |
| Cooroora | National | | Harry Walker (CP) | |
| Cunningham | Independent | | William Deacon (CP) | |
| Dalby | National | James Connolly | William Vowles (CP) | |
| Drayton | National | Lister Hopkins | William Bebbington (CP) | |
| Eacham | Labor | William Gillies | | James McCarthy (Ind CP) |
| East Toowoomba | National | John Mattingley | Robert Roberts (Nat) | |
| Enoggera | Labor | William Lloyd | Jim Kerr (Nat) | |
| Fassifern | National | Jack Quinlan | Ernest Bell (CP) | |
| Fitzroy | Labor | Harry Hartley | Frederick Lodge (Nat) | |
| Flinders | Labor | John Mullan | Eric Huntley (NCP) | |
| Fortitude Valley | Labor | Thomas Wilson | James Forde (NLP) | |
| Gregory | Labor | George Pollock | Robert Nowland (NCP) | |
| Gympie | Labor | Thomas Dunstan | James MacDonnell (Nat) | |
| Herbert | Labor | Percy Pease | Hedley Gelston (NCP) | |
| Ipswich | Labor | David Gledson | James Bottomley (Nat) | |
| Ithaca | Labor | John Gilday | John Morton (NLP) | |
| Kennedy | Labor | James O'Sullivan | John Jones (NCP) | |
| Keppel | Labor | James Larcombe | Robert Hartley (Nat) | |
| Kurilpa | National | John Pringle | James Fry (Nat) | |
| Leichhardt | Labor | Tom Foley | Charles Kingston (CP) | |
| Lockyer | Labor | Cuthbert Butler | George Logan (CP) | |
| Logan | Labor | Dick Brown | Alfred James (CP) Reginald King* (Nat) | |
| Mackay | Labor | William Forgan Smith | James McLaren (NCP) | Charles Clarke (Ind CP) |
| Maranoa | National | Charles Conroy | Thomas Spencer (CP) | |
| Maree | Labor | William Bertram | Field Evans Smith (Nat) | |
| Maryborough | Labor | David Weir | James Hatton (Nat) | |
| Merthyr | Labor | Peter McLachlan | Peter MacGregor (Nat) | |
| Mirani | National | Maurice Hynes | Edward Swayne (NCP) | |
| Mitchell | Labor | John Payne | | |
| Mount Morgan | Labor | James Stopford | Frederick McCarthy (Nat) | |
| Mundingburra | Labor | John Dash | John Clegg (NCP) | |
| Murilla | National | Jack MacGinley | Godfrey Morgan (CP) | |
| Murrumba | National | John Forde | George Pritchard (Nat) Richard Warren* (CP) | |
| Musgrave | Labor | Thomas Armfield | Henry Cattermull (CP) | |
| Nanango | National | Robert Wallace | Robert Hodge (CP) | Jim Edwards (Ind CP) |
| Normanby | Labor | Jens Peterson | Alexander Cameron (Nat) | |
| Nundah | National | George Robbins | Hubert Sizer (Nat) | |
| Oxley | National | John Reid | Cecil Elphinstone (Nat) | |
| Paddington | Labor | John Fihelly | Norm McFadden (NLP) | |
| Pittsworth | Independent | | Cecil Roberts (CP) | Percy Bayley (Ind) |
| Port Curtis | Labor | George Carter | John Fletcher (Nat) | |
| Queenton | Labor | Vern Winstanley | Herbert Hall (Nat) | |
| Rockhampton | Labor | Frank Forde | Theodore Kingel (Nat) | |
| Rosewood | Labor | William Cooper | Arthur Ogg (CP) | |
| South Brisbane | Labor | Myles Ferricks | James Davey (Nat) | |
| Stanley | National | William Delaney | Frederick Nott (CP) | Duncan Watson (Ind) |
| Toombul | National | John Watkins | Andrew Petrie (Nat) | |
| Toowong | National | William McCosker | James Maxwell (Nat) | |
| Toowoomba | Labor | Frank Brennan | James Tolmie (Nat) | Alexander Dark (Ind) |
| Townsville | Labor | Daniel Ryan | William Green (NCP) | |
| Warrego | Labor | Harry Coyne | Herbert Yeates (CP) | |
| Warwick | National | Donald Beatson | George Barnes (Nat) | |
| Wide Bay | Labor | Andrew Thompson | Harry Clayton (CP) | |
| Windsor | National | Herbert McPhail | Charles Taylor (Nat) | |