# Candidates of the 1954 Australian federal election

This article provides information on candidates who stood for the 1954 Australian federal election. The election was held on 29 May 1954. There was no election for the Senate.

## By-elections, appointments and defections
### By-elections and appointments

* On 28 July 1951, Tony Luchetti (Labor) was elected to replace Ben Chifley (Labor) as the member for Macquarie.
* On 28 July 1951, Percy Joske (Liberal) was elected to replace Thomas White (Liberal) as the member for Balaclava.
* On 22 March 1952, Philip Lucock (Country) was elected to replace Jim Eggins (Country) as the member for Lyne.
* On 18 October 1952, Keith Ewert (Labor) was elected to replace Rupert Ryan (Liberal) as the member for Flinders.
* On 29 November 1952, Gough Whitlam (Labor) was elected to replace Bert Lazzarini (Labor) as the member for Werriwa.
* On 20 December 1952, Harry Turner (Liberal) was elected to replace Billy Hughes (Liberal) as the member for Bradfield.
* On 9 May 1953, Arthur Greenup (Labor) was elected to replace Sol Rosevear (Labor) as the member for Dalley.
* On 29 August 1953, Frank Stewart (Labor) was elected to replace Dan Mulcahy (Labor) as the member for Lang.
* On 29 August 1953, Dan Mackinnon (Liberal) was elected to replace Allan McDonald (Liberal) as the member for Corangamite.
* On 19 December 1953, Ian Allan (Country) was elected to replace Thomas Treloar (Country) as the member for Gwydir.

## Retiring Members
### Country

* Bernard Corser MP (Wide Bay, Qld)

## House of Representatives

Sitting members at the time of the election are shown in bold text. Successful candidates are highlighted in the relevant colour. Where there is possible confusion, an asterisk (*) is also used.

### Australian Capital Territory

| Electorate | Held by | Labor candidate | Liberal candidate | Independent candidates |
| Australian Capital Territory | Labor | Jim Fraser | Mary Stevenson | John Cusack |

### New South Wales

| Electorate | Held by | Labor candidate | Coalition candidate | Other candidates |
| Banks | Labor | Eric Costa | Harold Stalker (Lib) | Pat Clancy (CPA) |
| Barton | Labor | H. V. Evatt | Bill Arthur (Lib) | |
| Bennelong | Liberal | Thomas Campbell | John Cramer (Lib) | |
| Blaxland | Labor | Jim Harrison | Reginald Allsop (Lib) | Jack Hughes (CPA) |
| Bradfield | Liberal | | Harry Turner (Lib) | |
| Calare | Liberal | John Breen | John Howse (Lib) | Madge Roberts (Ind) |
| Cook | Labor | Tom Sheehan | | Harry Hatfield (CPA) Percy Staines (Ind) |
| Cowper | Country | William Bailey | Sir Earle Page (CP) | Kenneth Harding (CPA) |
| Cunningham | Labor | Billy Davies | John Parkinson (Lib) | Bill Parkinson (CPA) |
| Dalley | Labor | Arthur Greenup | Robert Stafford (Lib) | Flo Davis (CPA) |
| Darling | Labor | Joe Clark | Rodan Dawson (CP) | |
| East Sydney | Labor | Eddie Ward | George Chambers (Lib) | Bill Brown (CPA) |
| Eden-Monaro | Labor | Allan Fraser | Royce Beavis (Lib) | |
| Evans | Liberal | Robert Bailey | Frederick Osborne (Lib) | |
| Farrer | Liberal | Daniel Byrnes | David Fairbairn (Lib) | |
| Grayndler | Labor | Fred Daly | Kenneth Innes (Lib) | William McCristal (Ind) |
| Gwydir | Country | Michael Quinn | Ian Allan (CP) | |
| Hume | Labor | Arthur Fuller | Charles Anderson (CP) Linden Roth (Lib) | |
| Hunter | Labor | Rowley James | Edward Farrell (Lib) | John McCroarey (Ind) Evan Phillips (CPA) John White (Ind) |
| Kingsford-Smith | Labor | Gordon Anderson | George Dan (Lib) | |
| Lang | Labor | Frank Stewart | John Spicer (Lib) | |
| Lawson | Country | Alan Manning | Laurie Failes (CP) | Dick Bourke (Ind) |
| Lowe | Liberal | William Webster | William McMahon (Lib) | |
| Lyne | Country | | Philip Lucock (CP) | Joe Cordner (Ind) Donald Lancaster (Ind) |
| Macarthur | Liberal | Claude Allen | Jeff Bate (Lib) | |
| Mackellar | Liberal | Francis Neate | Bill Wentworth (Lib) | Ray Clarke (CPA) |
| Macquarie | Labor | Tony Luchetti | Horace Brownlow (Lib) | John King (CPA) |
| Martin | Labor | William O'Connor | Elton Lewis (Lib) | Ernie Thornton (CPA) |
| Mitchell | Liberal | Doug Bowd | Roy Wheeler (Lib) | Mel McCalman (CPA) |
| New England | Country | Frederick Cowley | David Drummond (CP) | |
| Newcastle | Labor | David Watkins | Matthew Tapp (Lib) | Sidney Monroe (Ind) Doug Olive (CPA) |
| North Sydney | Liberal | Leo Haylen | William Jack (Lib) | |
| Parkes | Labor | Les Haylen | William Ness (Lib) | |
| Parramatta | Liberal | John Holmes | Howard Beale (Lib) | |
| Paterson | Liberal | Kevin Barlow | Allen Fairhall (Lib) | |
| Phillip | Labor | Joe Fitzgerald | Henry Clarke (Lib) | |
| Reid | Labor | Charles Morgan | Bob Mutton (Lib) | Laurie Aarons (CPA) Horace Hancock (OLM) |
| Richmond | Country | | Larry Anthony (CP) | |
| Riverina | Country | Michael Sheehan | Hugh Roberton (CP) | Les Kelton (CPA) |
| Robertson | Liberal | Walter Geraghty | Roger Dean (Lib) | John Tapp (CPA) |
| Shortland | Labor | Charles Griffiths | Arthur Downey (Lib) | |
| St George | Liberal | Nelson Lemmon | Bill Graham (Lib) | |
| Warringah | Liberal | Ronald Nibbs | Francis Bland (Lib) | Ernest White (Ind) |
| Watson | Labor | Dan Curtin | Hubert O'Connell (Lib) | |
| Wentworth | Liberal | | Sir Eric Harrison (Lib) | |
| Werriwa | Labor | Gough Whitlam | Jack Lee (Lib) | Edwin Lipscombe (CPA) |
| West Sydney | Labor | Dan Minogue | | Anthony Micallef (Ind) Lance Sharkey (CPA) |

### Northern Territory

| Electorate | Held by | Labor candidate | Country candidate |
| Northern Territory | Labor | Jock Nelson | Ralph Edwards |

### Queensland

| Electorate | Held by | Labor candidate | Coalition candidate | Other candidates |
| Bowman | Liberal | Jack Houston | Malcolm McColm (Lib) | Mabel Hanson (CPA) |
| Brisbane | Labor | George Lawson | Vic Mead (Lib) | Max Julius (CPA) |
| Capricornia | Liberal | Mick Gardner | George Pearce (Lib) | Eric Browne (CPA) |
| Darling Downs | Liberal | William Watson | Reginald Swartz (Lib) | |
| Dawson | Country | George Hyde | Charles Davidson (CP) | |
| Fisher | Country | Sydney Campbell | Charles Adermann (CP) | |
| Griffith | Liberal | Wilfred Coutts | Doug Berry (Lib) | |
| Herbert | Labor | Bill Edmonds | Fred Purdie (CP) | Claude Jones (CPA) |
| Kennedy | Labor | Bill Riordan | Cliff Lanham (CP) | |
| Leichhardt | Labor | Harry Bruce | Tom Gilmore (CP) | Joe Howe (CPA) |
| Lilley | Liberal | Bernard Williams | Bruce Wight (Lib) | |
| McPherson | Country | | Sir Arthur Fadden (CP) | Sir Raphael Cilento (Ind Dem) |
| Maranoa | Country | Eric Taylor | Wilfred Brimblecombe (CP) | Charles Russell (Ind Dem) |
| Moreton | Liberal | Ted Mansfield | Josiah Francis (Lib) | Bill Yarrow (CPA) |
| Oxley | Liberal | Norman Thomas | Donald Cameron (Lib) | Tom Millar (CPA) |
| Petrie | Liberal | Alexander Barry | Alan Hulme (Lib) | |
| Ryan | Liberal | Frank Luton | Nigel Drury (Lib) | |
| Wide Bay | Country | Frank Forde | William Brand (CP) | Frank Falls (CPA) |

### South Australia

| Electorate | Held by | Labor candidate | Liberal candidate | Other candidates |
| Adelaide | Labor | Cyril Chambers | Nancy Buttfield | Charles McCaffrey (CPA) |
| Angas | Liberal | | Alick Downer | |
| Barker | Liberal | Ralph Dettman | Archie Cameron | |
| Boothby | Liberal | Rex Mathews | John McLeay | |
| Grey | Labor | Edgar Russell | Thomas Cheesman | |
| Hindmarsh | Labor | Clyde Cameron | | |
| Kingston | Labor | Pat Galvin | Howard Zelling | |
| Port Adelaide | Labor | Albert Thompson | | Alan Finger (CPA) |
| Sturt | Liberal | Norman Makin | Keith Wilson | |
| Wakefield | Liberal | Edward Harradine | Sir Philip McBride | Hector Henstridge (Ind) |

### Tasmania

| Electorate | Held by | Labor candidate | Liberal candidate | Communist candidate |
| Bass | Liberal | Lance Barnard | Bruce Kekwick | |
| Darwin | Liberal | Clem Foster | Aubrey Luck | |
| Denison | Liberal | Bert Lacey | Athol Townley | Max Bound |
| Franklin | Liberal | Jack Frost | Bill Falkinder | |
| Wilmot | Labor | Gil Duthie | Lionel Browning | |

### Victoria

| Electorate | Held by | Labor candidate | Coalition candidate | Other candidates |
| Balaclava | Liberal | Leonard Prior | Percy Joske (Lib) | |
| Ballaarat | Labor | Bob Joshua | Allen Driscoll (Lib) | |
| Batman | Labor | Alan Bird | Neil McKay (Lib) | Andy Wallace (CPA) |
| Bendigo | Labor | Percy Clarey | John Barton (Lib) | |
| Burke | Labor | Ted Peters | Alfred Wall (Lib) | Vida Little (CPA) |
| Chisholm | Liberal | Les Cahill | Wilfrid Kent Hughes (Lib) | |
| Corangamite | Liberal | Angus McLean | Dan Mackinnon (Lib) | |
| Corio | Liberal | John Dedman | Hubert Opperman (Lib) | |
| Darebin | Labor | Tom Andrews | Charles White (Lib) | |
| Deakin | Liberal | Gordon Bryant | Frank Davis (Lib) | |
| Fawkner | Labor | Bill Bourke | Peter Howson (Lib) | |
| Flinders | Labor | Keith Ewert | Robert Lindsay (Lib) | |
| Gellibrand | Labor | Jack Mullens | George Carrington (Lib) | Alex Dobbin (CPA) |
| Gippsland | Country | Syd Crofts | George Bowden (CP) | |
| Henty | Liberal | Alexander Miller | Jo Gullett (Lib) | Noel Schafer (Ind Lib) |
| Higgins | Liberal | Benjamin Nicholas | Harold Holt (Lib) | |
| Higinbotham | Liberal | Geoffrey Sowerbutts | Frank Timson (Lib) | |
| Hoddle | Labor | Jack Cremean | Desmond Byrne (Lib) | John Prescott (CPA) |
| Indi | Liberal | Carl Reeves | William Bostock* (Lib) Cyril Davy (CP) | |
| Isaacs | Liberal | Don MacSween | William Haworth (Lib) | |
| Kooyong | Liberal | George Miller | Robert Menzies (Lib) | Rex Mortimer (CPA) |
| La Trobe | Liberal | Edward Smith | Richard Casey (Lib) | Gerry O'Day (CPA) |
| Lalor | Labor | Reg Pollard | George Morison (Lib) | |
| Mallee | Country | | Winton Turnbull (CP) | |
| Maribyrnong | Labor | Arthur Drakeford | Stuart Collie (Lib) | Frank Johnson (CPA) |
| McMillan | Liberal | Desmond Devlin | Geoffrey Brown* (Lib) John McDonald (CP) | Bob Hamilton (CPA) |
| Melbourne | Labor | Arthur Calwell | Alfred Carter (Lib) | |
| Melbourne Ports | Labor | Frank Crean | Norman Fittock (Lib) | Ted Bull (CPA) |
| Murray | Country | | John McEwen (CP) | |
| Wannon | Labor | Don McLeod | Malcolm Fraser (Lib) | |
| Wills | Labor | Bill Bryson | Ian Ingram (Lib) | |
| Wimmera | Liberal | Cyril Sudholz | Herbert Hilton (CP) William Lawrence* (Lib) | |
| Yarra | Labor | Stan Keon | Jim MacDonald (Lib) | Ken Miller (CPA) |

### Western Australia

| Electorate | Held by | Labor candidate | Coalition candidate | Other candidates |
| Canning | Country | Percy Munday | Len Hamilton (CP) | |
| Curtin | Liberal | Harry Bishop | Paul Hasluck (Lib) | |
| Forrest | Liberal | Frederick O'Connor | Gordon Freeth (Lib) | |
| Fremantle | Labor | Kim Beazley | Douglas McPherson (Lib) | Paddy Troy (CPA) |
| Kalgoorlie | Labor | Herbert Johnson | | Harold Illingworth (Ind) |
| Moore | Country | Arthur Dargin | Hugh Leslie (CP) | |
| Perth | Labor | Tom Burke | Robert Phillips (Lib) | Carlyle Ferguson (APA) John Gandini (CPA) |
| Swan | Liberal | Harry Webb | Bill Grayden (Lib) | Jack Marks (CPA) |

## Summary by party

Beside each party is the number of seats contested by that party in the House of Representatives for each state.
| Party | NSW | Vic | Qld | WA | SA | Tas | ACT | NT | Total |
| Australian Labor Party | 44 | 31 | 17 | 8 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 116 |
| Liberal Party of Australia | 37 | 30 | 10 | 5 | 8 | 5 | 1 | | 96 |
| Australian Country Party | 9 | 6 | 8 | 2 | | | | 1 | 26 |
| Communist Party of Australia | 18 | 10 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 1 | | | 42 |
| All Parties Administration | | | | 1 | | | | | 1 |
| Independent and other | 11 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | | 1 | | 17 |