# Candidates of the 1927 South Australian state election

This is a list of candidates of the 1927 South Australian state election. The conservative Liberal Federation and Country Party ran a combined ticket for this election, known as the "Pact".

## Retiring MPs
### Labor

* John Stanley Verran (Port Adelaide) – lost preselection

### Liberal Federation

* Robert Thomson Melrose MLC (Southern District) – retired
Murray Liberal MHA Harry Dove Young switched to the Legislative Council at this election, being elected unopposed to the seat vacated by Melrose in the Southern District.

## Legislative Assembly

Sitting members are shown in bold text. Successful candidates are marked with an asterisk.
| Electorate | Labor candidates | Liberal–Country Pact candidates | Other candidates |
| Adelaide (3) | Bill Denny* Bert Edwards* Herbert George* | Agnes Goode (Lib.) F. G. Hicks (Lib.) Donald Kerr (Lib.) | C. E. L. Skitch (Ind.) |
| Albert (2) | H. M. Dalziel Richard McKenzie | Malcolm McIntosh* (C.P.) Frederick McMillan* (C.P.) | |
| Alexandra (3) | | Percy Heggaton* (Lib.) Herbert Hudd* (Lib.) George Laffer* (Lib.) | |
| Barossa (3) | George Cooke* Leonard Hopkins | Henry Crosby* (Lib.) Herbert Lyons (Lib.) Reginald Rudall (Lib.) | Herbert Basedow* (Ind.) A. P. Davies (Ind.) |
| Burra Burra (3) | Albert Hawke Sydney McHugh Mick O'Halloran | Reginald Carter* (C.P.) Samuel Dickson* (Lib.) George Jenkins* (Lib.) | |
| East Torrens (3) | J. F. Flaherty Leslie Claude Hunkin Beasley Kearney | Frederick Coneybeer* (Lib.) Walter Hamilton* (Lib.) Albert Sutton* (Lib.) | |
| Flinders (2) | John O'Connor J. B. Pollard | Edward Coles* (C.P.) James Moseley* (Lib.) | Edward Craigie (Single Tax) |
| Murray (3) | Clement Collins* A. L. Gniel Frank Staniford | Ernest Hannaford* (Lib.) Hermann Homburg* (Lib.) John Randell (Lib.) | John Godfree (Ind.) |
| Newcastle (2) | Thomas Butterfield* William Harvey* | S. B. Castine (Lib.) Philip McBride (Lib.) | |
| North Adelaide (2) | Frederick Birrell* Stanley Whitford | Victor Marra Newland (Lib.) Shirley Jeffries* (Lib.) | |
| Port Pirie (2) | John Fitzgerald* Lionel Hill* | | |
| Port Adelaide (2) | Frank Condon John Jonas* | | Thomas Thompson* (Ind.) |
| Stanley (2) | | Robert Nicholls* John Lyons* | P. S. Gillen (Ind.) |
| Sturt (3) | Bob Dale T. W. Grealy Francis McCabe | Ernest Anthoney* (Lib.) Herbert Richards* (Lib.) Edward Vardon* (Lib.) | E. E. Craig (Ind.) |
| Victoria (2) | Eric Shepherd* F. E. Young | Vernon Petherick (Lib.) Peter Reidy* (Lib.) | |
| Wallaroo (2) | John Pedler* Robert Richards* | | |
| West Torrens (2) | Alfred Blackwell* John McInnes* | | R. A. Cilento (Ind.) |
| Wooroora (3) | William Jarrad R. R. Reincke Allan Robertson | Richard Layton Butler* (Lib.) Archie Cameron* (C.P.) James McLachlan* (Lib.) | |
| Yorke Peninsula (2) | | Edward Giles* Henry Tossell* | |

## Legislative Council

| Electorate | Labor candidates | Liberal–Country Pact candidates |
| Central District No. 1 (2) | John Carr* James Jelley* | H. P. Butterworth (Lib.) L. H. Crosby (Lib.) |
| Central District No. 2 (2) | Herbert Baldock F. E. Stratton | John Herbert Cooke* (Lib.) George Henry Prosser* (Lib.) |
| Midland District (2) | | 'Walter Hannaford* (Lib.) Thomas Pascoe* (Lib.) |
| Northern District (2) | Even George H. R. McHugh | Percy Blesing* (C.P.) William George Mills* (C.P.) |
| Southern District (2) | | 'Thomas McCallum* (Lib.) Harry Dove Young* (Lib.) |