# Candidates of the 1958 Victorian state election

The 1958 Victorian state election was held on 31 May 1958.

## Seat changes

There was a redistribution of boundaries in 1958. In consequence:
* Ascot Vale Labor MLA Ernie Shepherd contested Footscray.
* Carlton Labor MLA Denis Lovegrove contested Fitzroy.
* Caulfield LCP MLA Joe Rafferty contested Ormond.
* Caulfield East LCP MLA Alexander Fraser contested Caulfield.
* Collingwood Labor MLA Bill Towers contested Richmond.
* Dandenong LCP MLA Ray Wiltshire contested Mulgrave.
* Footscray Labor MLA Roy Schintler contested Yarraville.
* Hawthorn LCP MLA Jim Manson contested Ringwood.
* Pascoe Vale Labor MLA Arthur Drakeford contested Essendon.
* Port Melbourne Labor MLA Archie Todd contested the Legislative Council.

## Retiring Members
### Liberal and Country

* Edward Guye MLA (Polwarth)

## Legislative Assembly

Sitting members are shown in bold text. Successful candidates are highlighted in the relevant colour. Where there is possible confusion, an asterisk (*) is also used.
| Electorate | Held by | Labor candidates | LCP candidates | Country candidates | DLP candidates | Other candidates |
| Albert Park | Labor | Keith Sutton | Roy Schilling | | Stan Corrigan | Vida Little (CPA) |
| Ballarat North | Country | Ronald House | Tom Evans | Russell White | James Meere | |
| Ballarat South | LCP | Maxwell Pinkard | Gordon Scott | Arthur Philips | Leslie D'Arcy | |
| Balwyn | LCP | John MacPherson | Alex Taylor | | Leo Erwin | Frank Block (Ind) |
| Benalla | Country | Jack Ginifer | James Bennison | Frederick Cook | William Mithen | |
| Benambra | Country | Francis Taylor | James Shannon | Tom Mitchell | Henry Richards | |
| Bendigo | LCP | Bill Galvin | John Stanistreet | William Nicholls | James Brosnan | |
| Box Hill | LCP | William Betton | George Reid | | Edmund Burgi | |
| Brighton | LCP | Reginald Hayes | John Rossiter | | | |
| Broadmeadows | LCP | Joseph Smith | Harry Kane | | John Donnellon | |
| Brunswick East | Labor | Leo Fennessy | Bill Burns | | Allan Swain | |
| Brunswick West | Labor | Campbell Turnbull | Alfred Wall | | Peter Randles | |
| Burwood | LCP | Vincent Scully | Jim MacDonald | | | |
| Camberwell | LCP | George Blood | Vernon Wilcox | | Leonora Lloyd | |
| Caulfield | LCP | Alan Brenton | Alexander Fraser | | Celia Laird | |
| Coburg | Independent | Charlie Mutton | Peter Robertson | | Kevin O'Dea | |
| Dandenong | LCP | Alan Lind | Len Reid | | Reginald Kearney | |
| Dundas | LCP | Bob McClure | Sir William McDonald | | John Peters | |
| Elsternwick | LCP | George Smith | Richard Gainey | | Rex Keane | |
| Essendon | Labor | Arthur Drakeford | Kenneth Wheeler | | Kevin Digby | |
| Evelyn | Labor | Phillip Connell | Russell Stokes | | Kevin Gould | |
| Fitzroy | Labor | Denis Lovegrove | Charles Gillies | | David Woodhouse | |
| Flemington | Labor | Kevin Holland | Norman Loader | | Michael McMahon | |
| Footscray | Labor | Ernie Shepherd | Bryan Tonkin | | Robert Kerr | |
| Geelong | LCP | George Poyser | Sir Thomas Maltby | | George Taylor | Albert Woodward (Ind) |
| Geelong West | Labor | Colin MacDonald | Max Gillett | | James Mahoney | |
| Gippsland East | Country | | Rae Archibald | Sir Albert Lind | Frank Burns | |
| Gippsland South | Country | | | Sir Herbert Hyland | John Hansen | |
| Gippsland West | Country | James Longstaff | James Hosking | Leslie Cochrane | Kevin Scanlon | |
| Grant | Labor | Roy Crick | John Anderson | | Maxwell Campbell | |
| Hampden | LCP | Fred Levin | Henry Bolte | | Leo O'Brien | |
| Hawthorn | LCP | Jack Poke | Peter Garrisson | | Charles Murphy | |
| Ivanhoe | LCP | David Walker | Vernon Christie | | Cyril Cummins | |
| Kara Kara | LCP | Cyril Sudholz | Keith Turnbull | Allen Reseigh | Gerard Gilders | |
| Kew | LCP | Kevin Lynch | Arthur Rylah | | John Buchanan | Ralph Gibson (CPA) |
| Lowan | LCP | | Wilfred Mibus | Ian McCann | Edgar McMahon | |
| Malvern | LCP | | John Bloomfield | | | Mascotte Brown (Ind) |
| Melbourne | Labor | Arthur Clarey | Martha Yuille | | Tom Hayes | |
| Mentone | LCP | Alfred O'Connor | Edward Meagher | | George White | |
| Midlands | Labor | Clive Stoneham | James Mactier | | John Timberlake | |
| Mildura | Country | William Nicholas | | Nathaniel Barclay | John Cotter | |
| Moonee Ponds | LCP | Thomas Moloney | Jack Holden | | Paul Gunn | Lancelot Hutchinson (Ind) |
| Moorabbin | LCP | Les Coates | Bob Suggett | | Desmond Ward | |
| Mornington | LCP | Gordon Anstee | Roberts Dunstan | | | |
| Morwell | LCP | Hector Stoddart | Jim Balfour | | Alfred Gerrard | |
| Mulgrave | LCP | John Neal | Ray Wiltshire | | Leo Sparrow | |
| Murray Valley | Country | Neil Frankland | | George Moss | John Patterson | |
| Northcote | Labor | Frank Wilkes | Edward Wells | | Thomas Walsh | |
| Oakleigh | Labor | Val Doube | William Downard | | John Heffernan | |
| Ormond | LCP | Robert Flanagan | Joe Rafferty | | Robert Semmel | Gilbert Smith (Ind) |
| Polwarth | LCP | William King | Tom Darcy | Ronald McDonough | Michael Finlay | |
| Portland | LCP | Malcolm Gladman | George Gibbs | | John Russell | |
| Prahran | LCP | Robert Pettiona | Sam Loxton | | Gordon Haberman | |
| Preston | Labor | Charlie Ring | Neville Crocker | | Michael Lucy | |
| Reservoir | Labor | William Ruthven | Hubert Joelson | | Frederick Whitling | |
| Richmond | DLP | Bill Towers | Nicholas Renton | | Frank Scully | |
| Ringwood | LCP | William Webber | Jim Manson | | Bruce Burne | |
| Ripponlea | LCP | Jack Kagan | Edgar Tanner | | Dermot O'Neill | |
| Rodney | Country | | | Richard Brose | Spencer Broom | |
| St Kilda | LCP | Paul Fraser | Baron Snider | | John Hughes | |
| Sandringham | LCP | Henry Fowler | Murray Porter | | Thomas Ryan | |
| Scoresby | LCP | Reginald Robertson | Sir George Knox | | George Noone | |
| Swan Hill | Country | | | Harold Stirling | | John Hipworth (Ind Lib) |
| Toorak | LCP | George Gahan | Horace Petty | | | |
| Williamstown | Labor | Larry Floyd | Joy Head | | Edward Purchase | William Tregear (CPA) |
| Yarraville | Labor | Roy Schintler | William Lovell | | James Eudey | William Keily (Ind) |