# Candidates of the 1947 Queensland state election

The 1947 Queensland state election was held on 3 May 1947.

## By-elections

* On 2 March 1946, Les Wood (Labor) was elected to succeed Herbert Yeates (Country), who had died on 24 December 1945, as the member for East Toowoomba.
* On 10 September 1949, Jim Donald (Labor) was elected to succeed Frank Cooper (Labor), who had resigned on 12 March 1946, as the member for Bremer.

## Retiring Members

* Note: Country MLA Harry Clayton (Wide Bay) died prior to the election. No by-election was held.

### Labor

* Ted Hanson MLA (Buranda)
* John Hayes MLA (Nundah)
* Aubrey Slessar MLA (Dalby)
* Tommy Williams MLA (Port Curtis)

### Country

* Jim Edwards MLA (Nanango)
* Harry Walker MLA (Cooroora)

### People's Party

* John Chandler MLA (Hamilton)

## Candidates

Sitting members at the time of the election are shown in bold text.
| Electorate | Held by | Labor candidate | Coalition candidate | Other candidates |
| Albert | Country | John Rosser | Tom Plunkett (CP) | |
| Aubigny | Country | John Tomlinson | Jim Sparkes (CP) | |
| Barcoo | Labor | Ned Davis | James Keehan (QPP) | Reginald Parnell (FBLP) |
| Baroona | Labor | Bill Power | Kenneth Toombes (QPP) | Henry Beck (Ind) Max Julius (CPA) |
| Bowen | Communist | John Barry | George McLean (CP) | Fred Paterson (CPA) |
| Bremer | Labor | Jim Donald | Henry Davidson (QPP) | |
| Brisbane | Labor | Johnno Mann | Maurice Mitchell (QPP) | Charles Coward (Ind Lab) |
| Bulimba | Independent Labor | Bob Gardner | Hilda Brotherton (QPP) | George Marriott (Ind Lab) |
| Bundaberg | Frank Barnes Labor | Viv Brown | Geoffrey Boreham (QPP) | Frank Barnes (FBLP) |
| Buranda | Labor | Dick Brown | William Scott (QPP) | |
| Cairns | Frank Barnes Labor | Thomas Crowley | Ian MacKinnon (CP) | Lou Barnes (FBLP) |
| Carnarvon | Labor | Paul Hilton | Harold Phillips (CP) | |
| Carpentaria | Labor | Norm Smith | | Walter Grant (Ind) |
| Charters Towers | Labor | Arthur Jones | Reg Smith (CP) | George Carbis (Ind) |
| Cook | Labor | Harold Collins | Charles Griffin (CP) | |
| Cooroora | Country | Robert Spencer | David Low (CP) | Bill Gresham (FBLP) William Low (Ind CP) |
| Cunningham | Country | John Hilton | Malcolm McIntyre (CP) | |
| Dalby | Labor | George Wilkes | Charles Russell (CP) | |
| East Toowoomba | Labor | Les Wood | Gordon Chalk (QPP) | |
| Enoggera | People's Party | Mark Scanlan | Kenneth Morris (QPP) | |
| Fassifern | Country | Tom Thorpe | Alf Muller (CP) | |
| Fitzroy | Labor | Jim Clark | Harry Weir (QPP) | Gordon Loukes (FBLP) John Wharton (Ind) |
| Fortitude Valley | Labor | Samuel Brassington | William Brenan (QPP) | Andrew Knox (Ind) |
| Gregory | Labor | George Devries | Gordon Lee (CP) | |
| Gympie | Labor | Thomas Dunstan | Ronald Witham (QPP) | Eric Grice (Ind) Ray Smith (FBLP) |
| Hamilton | People's Party | Vic Bartlett | Harold Taylor (QPP) | |
| Herbert | Labor | Stephen Theodore | Carlisle Wordsworth (CP) | Les Sullivan (CPA) |
| Ipswich | Labor | David Gledson | Harry Shapcott (QPP) | |
| Isis | Country | Samuel Round | William Brand (CP) | |
| Ithaca | Labor | Ned Hanlon | Frank Roberts (QPP) | |
| Kelvin Grove | Labor | Bert Turner | Kenneth Fielding (QPP) | |
| Kennedy | Labor | Cecil Jesson | Robert Johnston (QPP) | John Clubley (CPA) |
| Keppel | Labor | Walter Ingram | John Reid (CP) | John Harding (FBLP) |
| Kurilpa | Labor | Kerry Copley | Doug Berry (QPP) | |
| Logan | People's Party | Ferdinand Scholl | Thomas Hiley (QPP) | |
| Mackay | Labor | Fred Graham | Jack Broughton (CP) | |
| Maranoa | Labor | John Taylor | Finlay Skinner (CP) | |
| Maree | Independent | Leslie Brown | Louis Luckins (QPP) | |
| Maryborough | Labor | David Farrell | Frank Lawrence (QPP) | Mary De Mattos (FBLP) |
| Merthyr | Labor | Bill Moore | Bert Frost (QPP) | |
| Mirani | Labor | Ted Walsh | Ernie Evans (CP) | |
| Mundingburra | Hermit Park Labor | George Parker | | Tom Aikens* (HBLP) Arthur Coburn (Ind) |
| Murrumba | Country | | Frank Nicklin (CP) | Samuel Halpin (Ind) |
| Nanango | Country | Daniel Carroll | Joh Bjelke-Petersen (CP) | Samuel Andrewartha (Ind Lab) Phil Cameron (FBLP) Cliff Edwards (Ind CP) |
| Normanby | Labor | Tom Foley | Bill Rundle (CP) | Cecil Chandler (FBLP) |
| Nundah | Labor | Frank Roberts | Alex Dewar (QPP) | |
| Oxley | People's Party | William Wood | Tom Kerr (QPP) | |
| Port Curtis | Labor | Jim Burrows | William McGreever (CP) | John Daly (Ind) Peter Neilson (FBLP) Alec Paterson (Ind) |
| Rockhampton | Labor | James Larcombe | Arthur Gordon (QPP) | Edwin Price (Ind) Arthur Webb (FBLP) |
| Sandgate | People's Party | Ron McAuliffe | Eric Decker (QPP) | |
| South Brisbane | Labor | Vince Gair | Winston Noble (QPP) | |
| Stanley | Country | | Duncan MacDonald (CP) | John Hatton (Ind) William Walters (Ind) |
| The Tableland | Labor | Harry Bruce | Herbert Trackson (CP) | Frank Falls (CPA) |
| Toowong | People's Party | Frank Venables | Charles Wanstall (QPP) | |
| Toowoomba | Labor | Jack Duggan | Victor Boettcher (QPP) | |
| Townsville | Labor | George Keyatta | Fred Feather (CP) | |
| Warrego | Labor | Harry O'Shea | Robert King (CP) | Cyril Healy (Ind) |
| Warwick | Labor | John Healy | Otto Madsen (CP) | |
| West Moreton | Country | Jack Ryan | Ted Maher (CP) | |
| Wide Bay | Country | George Stockwell | James Heading (CP) | N F Spence (FBLP) |
| Windsor | People's Party | Erle Wettemeyer | Bruce Pie (QPP) | |
| Wynnum | Labor | Bill Gunn | Syd Ewart (QPP) | Albert Barrett (Ind) Thomas Ebbage (FBLP) |