# Candidates of the 1969 Queensland state election

The 1969 Queensland state election was held on 17 May 1969.

## Retiring Members
### Labor

* Peter Byrne MLA (Mourilyan)
* Jim Donald MLA (Ipswich East)
* John Dufficy MLA (Warrego)
* Jack Duggan MLA (Toowoomba West)
* Fred Graham MLA (Mackay)
* Johnno Mann MLA (Brisbane)

### Country

* Eddie Beardmore MLA (Balonne)
* Alf Muller MLA (Fassifern)

### Liberal

* Ray Smith MLA (Windsor)

### Independent

* Bunny Adair MLA (Cook)
* Arthur Coburn MLA (Burdekin)
* Ted Walsh MLA (Bundaberg)

## 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 | William Wollstein | Cec Carey* (CP) Paul Scanlan (Lib) | Brian Balaam | Ernest Harley (Ind) William Steer (Ind) |
| Ashgrove | Liberal | Haydn Sargent | Douglas Tooth (Lib) | George Cook | |
| Aspley | Liberal | Roy Harvey | Fred Campbell (Lib) | Anthony Macklin | |
| Aubigny | DLP | Thomas Wilson | Peter Paull (CP) | Les Diplock | |
| Balonne | Country | Ben Ward | Harold Hungerford (CP) | | |
| Barambah | Country | Norman Hasemann | Joh Bjelke-Petersen (CP) | | |
| Barcoo | Labor | Eugene O'Donnell | Harold Braun (CP) | Edwin Eshmann | |
| Baroona | Labor | Pat Hanlon | Thomas Bence (Lib) | Anthony Machin | |
| Belmont | Labor | Fred Newton | Cyril Morgan (Lib) | John Taylor | |
| Bowen | Liberal | Leonard Bidgood | Peter Delamothe (Lib) | | |
| Brisbane | Labor | Brian Davis | Neville Jackson (Lib) | Patrick Hallinan | |
| Bulimba | Labor | Jack Houston | Megan Wilding (Lib) | Paul Tucker | |
| Bundaberg | Independent | Lou Jensen | Paul Neville (CP) Stanley Smith (Lib) | William Hutchinson | Seth Cottell (Ind) Clifford Nielsen (Ind) |
| Burdekin | Independent | Ronald Nuttall | Val Bird* (CP) Stanley Pearce (Lib) | Emil Liebrecht | |
| Burke | Labor | Alec Inch | William Aplin (CP) | | John Donaldson (SC) |
| Burnett | Country | Alexander Craig | Claude Wharton (CP) | | |
| Cairns | Labor | Ray Jones | David De Jarlais (Lib) Victor Piccone (CP) | Edward Svendsen | Phyllis Penridge (Ind) |
| Callide | Country | Charles Tutt | Vince Jones (CP) | Edgar Lanigan | Edgar Shields (Ind) |
| Carnarvon | Country | Arthur Johnson | Henry McKechnie (CP) | Frederick Burges | |
| Chatsworth | Liberal | John Cleary | Bill Hewitt (Lib) | Leonard Galligan | |
| Clayfield | Liberal | David Hunter | John Murray (Lib) | Francis Andrews | |
| Condamine | Country | Nico Bos | Vic Sullivan (CP) | | |
| Cook | Independent | Bill Wood | James Bidner (CP) | Thomas White | John Allan (Ind) Ernest Hall (Ind) |
| Cooroora | Country | Lutgerdienko Hoiting | David Low (CP) | Alexander Browne | |
| Cunningham | Country | Nelson Mann | Alan Fletcher (CP) | Eugene Connolly | |
| Fassifern | Country | Jack Jones | Selwyn Muller (CP) | Gordon Blain | Victor Robb (SC) |
| Flinders | Country | Douglas Lloyd | Bill Longeran (CP) | | |
| Greenslopes | Liberal | Kath Walker | Keith Hooper (Lib) | Harry Wright | |
| Gregory | Country | John Thomas | Wally Rae (CP) | | |
| Gympie | Country | Jack Ison | Max Hodges (CP) | Denis Tanner | Cecil Rivers (Ind) Bernard Thomas (Ind) |
| Hawthorne | Liberal | Ernest Adsett | Bill Kaus (Lib) | James Moss | |
| Hinchinbrook | Country | Frederick Page | John Row (CP) | John Williams | |
| Ipswich East | Labor | Evan Marginson | John Shapcott (Lib) | Peter Grant | |
| Ipswich West | Labor | Vi Jordan | Allan Whybird (Lib) | Francis Carroll | |
| Isis | Labor | Jim Blake | Harold Bonanno (CP) | Matthews Minnegal | |
| Ithaca | Liberal | Sylvester Martin | Col Miller (Lib) | Anne Wenck | |
| Kedron | Labor | Eric Lloyd | William Battershill (Lib) | Gavan Duffy | |
| Kurilpa | Liberal | Ian Brusasco | Clive Hughes (Lib) | Edward Doherty | |
| Landsborough | Country | Peter Venning | Mike Ahern (CP) | | Basil Nettleton (Ind) |
| Lockyer | Liberal | | Gordon Chalk (Lib) | Bailey Pashley | James Ryan (Ind) |
| Logan | Country | Ted Baldwin | Dick Wood (CP) | Michael Scragg | |
| Mackay | Labor | Ed Casey | Robert Gray (Lib) | | Thomas McCanna (Ind) |
| Mackenzie | Country | Harold Kuhn | Nev Hewitt (CP) | | |
| Maryborough | Labor | Horace Davies | Ralph Stafford (Lib) | Brian Hawes | |
| Merthyr | Liberal | Brian Mellifont | Sam Ramsden (Lib) | Maurice O'Connor | |
| Mirani | Country | Gustav Creber | Tom Newbery (CP) | | |
| Mount Coot-tha | Liberal | Con Sciacca | Bill Lickiss (Lib) | Andrew Aitken | |
| Mount Gravatt | Liberal | James Kennedy | Geoff Chinchen (Lib) | Patrick O'Reilly | |
| Mourilyan | Labor | Peter Moore | Arnold Palmer (CP) | Geoffrey Higham | |
| Mulgrave | Country | Leslie Trembath | Roy Armstrong (CP) | | |
| Murrumba | Country | Reginald O'Brien | David Nicholson (CP) | Robert Macklin | |
| Norman | Labor | Fred Bromley | Ross Cameron (Lib) | Maurice Sheehan | |
| Nudgee | Labor | Jack Melloy | Robert Harper (Lib) | David Mapstone | Hubert Giesberts (SC) |
| Nundah | Liberal | Roderick Blundell | William Knox (Lib) | Brian Barlow | |
| Port Curtis | Labor | Martin Hanson | | Marguerita Glen | |
| Redcliffe | Country | Jack Trueman | Jim Houghton (CP) | James Morrissey | |
| Rockhampton North | Labor | Merv Thackeray | Philip German (Lib) | John Dunn | |
| Rockhampton South | Liberal | Keith Wright | Rex Pilbeam (Lib) | Peter Boyle | |
| Roma | Country | Marcus Thew | Ken Tomkins (CP) | | Ronald Alford (Ind) |
| Salisbury | Labor | Doug Sherrington | George Whyte (Lib) | Miroslav Jansky | |
| Sandgate | Labor | Harry Dean | Colin Clark (Lib) | Bernard Beston | |
| Sherwood | Liberal | Robert Wilson | John Herbert (Lib) | Clarice Weedon | |
| Somerset | Country | Norman Cush | Harold Richter (CP) | | |
| South Brisbane | Labor | Col Bennett | Alan Brown (Lib) | John O'Connell | Victor Slater (SPA) |
| South Coast | Country | Frank Culell | Bruce Bishop (Lib) Russ Hinze* (CP) | Laurence Kehoe | Dino Bertoldo (Ind) John Lee (Ind) |
| Tablelands | Labor | Edwin Wallis-Smith | Micheli Borzi (CP) | | |
| Toowong | Liberal | Ian Hinckfuss | Charles Porter (Lib) | Brian O'Brien | |
| Toowoomba East | Labor | Peter Wood | Sydney Goodrick (Lib) | Francis Mullins | |
| Toowoomba West | Labor | Ray Bousen | John Peel (CP) Leigh Wallman (Lib) | John Davis | |
| Townsville North | Labor | Perc Tucker | Owen Griffiths (CP) Keith Rundle (Lib) | Peter Flanagan | |
| Townsville South | Independent | Leslie Moon | | Bryan Hurney | Tom Aikens* (Ind) Francis Bishop (CPA) |
| Warrego | Labor | Jack Aiken | Robert Anson (CP) | | Jack Tonkin (Ind) |
| Warwick | Country | Raymond Lyons | David Cory (CP) | Daniel Skehan | |
| Wavell | Liberal | Herbert Bromley | Arthur Crawford (Lib) | Rogers Judge | Alex Dewar (Ind) |
| Whitsunday | Country | Elwyn Uprichard | Ron Camm (CP) | Bernard Lewis | |
| Windsor | Liberal | Keith Fordyce | Bob Moore (Lib) | John Dawson | |
| Wynnum | Labor | Ted Harris | Noel Justo (Lib) | Gordon Randall | R A Annear (CPA) |
| Yeronga | Liberal | Malcolm Campbell | Norm Lee (Lib) | Jonyth Mapstone | |