# Candidates of the 1955 Victorian state election

The 1955 Victorian state election was held on 28 May 1955.

## Seat changes

There was a redistribution of boundaries in 1955. In consequence:
* Allandale Country MLA Russell White contested Ballarat North.
* Ballarat Labor MLA John Sheehan contested Ballarat South.
* Barwon LCP MLA Thomas Maltby contested Geelong.
* Borung LCP MLA Wilfred Mibus contested Lowan.
* Brunswick Anti-Communist MLA Peter Randles contested Brunswick West.
* Clifton Hill Anti-Communist MLA Joseph O'Carroll contested Brunswick East.
* Dandenong Labor MLA Les Coates contested Moorabbin.
* Essendon Anti-Communist MLA George Fewster contested Pascoe Vale.
* Footscray Labor MLA Jack Holland contested Flemington.
* Geelong Independent Labor MLA James Dunn contested Geelong West.
* Gippsland North Labor MLA Hector Stoddart contested Morwell.
* Glen Iris VLP MLA Thomas Hollway contested Ripponlea.
* Goulburn Labor MLA Joseph Smith contested Broadmeadows.
* Korong LCP MLA Keith Turnbull contested Kara Kara.
* Ivanhoe Anti-Communist MLA Michael Lucy contested Evelyn.
* Mernda Anti-Communist MLA Edmund Morrissey contested Reservoir.
* Preston Labor MLA William Ruthven contested Reservoir.
* Ripon Labor MLA Ernie Morton contested Hampden.
* Sunshine Labor MLA Ernie Shepherd contested Ascot Vale.
* Warrnambool Labor MLA Malcolm Gladman contested Portland.

## Retiring Members
### Labor

* Robert Holt MLA (Portland)
* John Lemmon MLA (Williamstown)

### Country

* William Buckingham MLA (Wonthaggi)
* Keith Dodgshun MLA (Rainbow)

## 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 | Labor (A-C) candidates | Other candidates |
| Albert Park | Labor | Keith Sutton | Thomas Merrett | | Albert Jones | |
| Ascot Vale | Labor | Ernie Shepherd | George Evans | | Paul Gunn | |
| Ballarat North | Country | Jack Smethurst | Arthur Nicholson | Russell White | Thomas Lane | |
| Ballarat South | Labor | John Sheehan | Gordon Scott | | Alfred Purdue | |
| Balwyn | LCP | Florence Rodan | Alex Taylor | | | |
| Benalla | Country | | Jack Pennington | Frederick Cook | Ernest Straughair | |
| Benambra | Country | | Norman Attree | Tom Mitchell | William Findlay | James Prendergast (Ind CP) |
| Bendigo | Labor | Bill Galvin | John Stanistreet | Norman Oliver | Arthur Cook | |
| Box Hill | Labor | Bob Gray | George Reid | | Maurice Weston | Leslie Bawden (HGJP) Leslie McCredden (Ind) |
| Brighton | VLP | | John Rossiter | | | Marcella Sullivan (Ind Lab) Ray Tovell (VLP) |
| Broadmeadows | Labor | Joseph Smith | Harry Kane | James Webster | | |
| Brunswick East | Labor | Leo Fennessy | Alfred Wall | | Joseph O'Carroll | |
| Brunswick West | Labor | Campbell Turnbull | Alisa Gaston | | Peter Randles | |
| Burwood | LCP | Gwendolyn Noad | Jim MacDonald | | William Mahoney | Ivan Robinson (HGJP) |
| Camberwell | LCP | Barry Jones | Robert Whately | | | |
| Carlton | Labor | Denis Lovegrove | Francis Michaelson | | Bill Barry | John Prescott (CPA) |
| Caulfield | VLP | | Joe Rafferty | | | Alexander Dennett (VLP) |
| Caulfield East | LCP | Robert Flanagan | Alexander Fraser | | Bernard Tarpey | |
| Coburg | Ind Labor | | Donald Abernethy | | Kevin Hayes | Charlie Mutton (Ind Lab) |
| Collingwood | Labor | Bill Towers | Martha Yuille | | William Livy | |
| Dandenong | Labor | John Tripovich | Ray Wiltshire | | Reginald Kearney | |
| Dundas | Labor | Bob McClure | William McDonald | John O'Brien | John Peters | |
| Elsternwick | VLP | | Richard Gainey | | | John Don (VLP) Donald Tottey (Ind Lab) |
| Evelyn | Labor | Phillip Connell | Arthur Ireland | | Michael Lucy | |
| Flemington | Labor | Jack Holland | | | John Hayes | |
| Footscray | Labor | Roy Schintler | George Punshon | | William Lloyd | |
| Geelong | Labor | George Poyser | Thomas Maltby | | | Norman MacKay (Ind) Charles Plummer (VLP) |
| Geelong West | Labor | Colin MacDonald | Geoffrey Thom | | James Mahoney | James Dowsett (Ind) James Dunn (Ind) |
| Gippsland East | Country | | | Sir Albert Lind | Frank Burns | |
| Gippsland South | Country | | | Sir Herbert Hyland | | |
| Gippsland West | Country | | Colin Ferres | Leslie Cochrane | | Walter Doig (CPA) |
| Grant | Labor | Roy Crick | Max Gillett | | Leslie D'Arcy | |
| Hampden | LCP | Ernie Morton | Henry Bolte | | | |
| Hawthorn | Labor | Jack Poke | Jim Manson | | Charles Murphy | William Pitt (HGJP) |
| Ivanhoe | Labor | David Walker | Vernon Christie | | John O'Dwyer | |
| Kara Kara | LCP | | Keith Turnbull | Ian McCann | | |
| Kew | LCP | Norman Williams | Arthur Rylah | | | Ralph Gibson (CPA) |
| Lowan | LCP | | Wilfred Mibus | Griffith Perkins | | |
| Malvern | LCP | | John Bloomfield | | | Mascotte Brown (VLP) |
| Melbourne | Labor | Arthur Clarey | Alan Etherington | | Tom Hayes | |
| Mentone | Labor | Alfred O'Connor | Edward Meagher | | George White | |
| Midlands | Labor | Clive Stoneham | James Mactier | | Alexander Lee | |
| Mildura | Labor | Alan Lind | | Nathaniel Barclay | | |
| Moonee Ponds | Labor | Samuel Merrifield | Jack Holden | | Harold Hilbert | |
| Moorabbin | Labor | Les Coates | Bob Suggett | | Edward White | William Dawnay-Mould (VLP) |
| Mornington | LCP | | William Leggatt | | | Fred Jarman (VLP) |
| Morwell | Labor | Hector Stoddart | Jim Balfour | George Purvis | Gordon Green | |
| Murray Valley | Country | Kenneth Lenne | | George Moss | Stewart Morvell | |
| Northcote | Labor | John Cain | Neil McKay | | David Woodhouse | |
| Oakleigh | Labor | Val Doube | Max Fox | | Donald Murray | |
| Pascoe Vale | Labor | Arthur Drakeford | Rudolph Reid | | George Fewster | Lancelot Hutchinson (HGJP) Colin Portway (Ind) |
| Polwarth | LCP | Phillip Denning | Edward Guye | Ronald Harris | | |
| Portland | Labor | Malcolm Gladman | George Gibbs | Cyril Brimblecombe | William O'Sullivan | |
| Port Melbourne | Labor | Archie Todd | John Talbot | | Stan Corrigan | Laurence Troy (CPA) |
| Prahran | Labor | Robert Pettiona | Sam Loxton | | James Johnson | Leonard Bennett (Ind) |
| Preston | Labor | Charlie Ring | Frank Block | | Thomas Hartnedy | |
| Reservoir | Labor | William Ruthven | Frederick Capp | | Edmund Morrissey | |
| Richmond | Labor | Patrick O'Connell | Barry Dove | | Frank Scully | Kenneth Miller (CPA) |
| Ripponlea | VLP | | Edgar Tanner | | George Miller | Thomas Hollway (VLP) Ted Laurie (CPA) |
| Rodney | Country | | Leslie Lord | Richard Brose | | |
| St Kilda | Labor | John Bourke | Baron Snider | | | Arnold Blashki (VLP) |
| Sandringham | LCP | Henry Fowler | Murray Porter | | John Ryan | Alexander Steele (Ind) |
| Scoresby | LCP | Reginald Robertson | Sir George Knox | | | |
| Swan Hill | Country | | | Harold Stirling | | Duncan Douglas (Ind CP) John Hipworth (Ind Lib) |
| Toorak | LCP | | Horace Petty | | | George Gahan (Ind Lab) Geoffrey Kiddle (VLP) |
| Williamstown | Labor | Larry Floyd | James Wilkie | | Herbert Stackpoole | |