# Candidates of the 1959 Western Australian state election

The 1959 Western Australian state election was held on 21 March 1959.

## Retiring Members
### Labor

* Joseph Sleeman (MLA) (Fremantle)

### Country

* Lindsay Thorn (MLA) (Toodyay)

## 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 candidate | LCL candidate | Country candidate | Other candidates |
| Albany | Labor | Jack Hall | Roy Wellington | Vincent Liddelow | Charles Johnson (Ind.) Ernest Rogers (Ind.) |
| Avon Valley | LCL | | James Mann | John Stratton | |
| Beeloo | Labor | Colin Jamieson | Gordon Clark | | Patrick Riordan (DLP) |
| Blackwood | LCL | | John Hearman | Duncan Muir | |
| Boulder | Labor | Arthur Moir | | | |
| Bunbury | LCL | Forrest Hay | George Roberts | | |
| Canning | Labor | Bill Gaffy | Des O'Neil | | Michael O'Brien (DLP) |
| Claremont | LCL | | Harold Crommelin | | |
| Collie | Labor | Harry May | | | Norman Coote (Ind.) |
| Cottesloe | LCL | Edmund Edwards | Ross Hutchinson | | |
| Dale | LCL | | Gerald Wild | Arthur Mills Andrew McPhail | William Williams (Ind.) |
| Darling Range | Country | Henry Harris | John Kostera | Ray Owen | Michael Coyne (DLP) |
| East Perth | Labor | Herb Graham | John Martin | | John Deane (DLP) |
| Eyre | Labor | Emil Nulsen | Orlando Stuart | | |
| Fremantle | Labor | Harry Fletcher | | | Henry Miller (DLP) Paddy Troy (Comm.) |
| Gascoyne | Labor | Daniel Norton | Thomas Orr | | |
| Geraldton | Labor | Bill Sewell | Gerald Throssell | | Septimus Waldon (DLP) |
| Greenough | LCL | | David Brand | | |
| Guildford-Midland | Labor | John Brady | | | John Gandini (Comm.) |
| Harvey | LCL | | Iven Manning | | |
| Kalgoorlie | Labor | Tom Evans | Percy Millington | | Harold Illingworth (Ind.) |
| Katanning | Country | | | Crawford Nalder | |
| Kimberley | Labor | John Rhatigan | Nolan McDaniel | | |
| Leederville | Labor | Ted Johnson | Guy Henn | | John Antill (DLP) |
| Maylands | Labor | Merv Toms | Walter Bonnett | | |
| Melville | Labor | John Tonkin | | | |
| Merredin-Yilgarn | Labor | Lionel Kelly | Ronald Lee | | |
| Middle Swan | Labor | James Hegney | Francis Wilson | | Brian Peachey (DLP) |
| Moore | Country | | | Edgar Lewis | |
| Mount Hawthorn | Labor | Bill Hegney | Hugh O'Doherty | | Edward Zeffertt (Comm.) |
| Mount Lawley | Independent | | Alexander Barras | | Edward Oldfield* (Ind.) Ernest Parker (DLP) |
| Mount Marshall | Country | | | George Cornell | |
| Murchison | Labor | Everard O'Brien | Richard Burt | | George Jensen (DLP) |
| Murray | LCL | | Ross McLarty | | |
| Narrogin | Country | Percy Munday | | William Manning | |
| Nedlands | LCL | | Charles Court | | |
| North Perth | Labor | Stan Lapham | Ray O'Connor | | William Sawyer (DLP) |
| Northam | Labor | Albert Hawke | Lawrence Solomon | | Brian McGinty (DLP) |
| Pilbara | Labor | Arthur Bickerton | Neil Radley | | |
| Roe | Country | | | Charles Perkins | Edward Biglin (Ind.) |
| South Fremantle | Labor | Dick Lawrence | | | George Kendrick (Comm.) |
| South Perth | Independent | | George Strickland | | Bill Grayden (Ind. Lib) |
| Stirling | Country | | | Arthur Watts | |
| Subiaco | Labor | Percival Potter | Hugh Guthrie | | Ronald Bulbeck (DLP) |
| Toodyay | Country | John Rolinson | | James Craig* Joseph Farrell | John Acott (Ind. Lab) |
| Vasse | LCL | | William Bovell | | George Shervington (DLP) |
| Victoria Park | Labor | Ron Davies | David Hooper | | Harold Hawthorne (Ind.) William Carter (DLP) |
| Warren | Labor | Joseph Rowberry | Walter Muir | | Paul Brennan (DLP) |
| Wembley Beaches | Labor | Frederick Marshall | Les Nimmo | | William Coyne (DLP) |
| West Perth | Labor | Stanley Heal | Raymond Nowland | | |