# Candidates of the 1970 Victorian state election

The 1970 Victorian state election was held on 30 May 1970.

## Retiring Members
### Labor

* Bill Divers MLA (Footscray)
* Leo Fennessy MLA (Brunswick East)
* Charlie Ring MLA (Preston)
* Clive Stoneham MLA (Midlands)
* Keith Sutton MLA (Albert Park)
* Samuel Merrifield MLC (Doutta Galla)
* Archie Todd MLC (Melbourne West)

### Liberal

* Sir John Bloomfield MLA (Malvern)
* Tom Darcy MLA (Polwarth)
* Murray Porter MLA (Sandringham)
* Geoffrey Thom MLC (South Western)

### Country

* Leslie Cochrane MLA (Gippsland West)
* Sir Herbert Hyland MLA (Gippsland South)

## 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 | Liberal candidates | Country candidates | DLP candidates | Other candidates |
| Albert Park | Labor | Val Doube | Wallace Cameron | | Monica McGeoch | |
| Ballarat North | Liberal | Kevin Flynn | Tom Evans | | Walter Brown | |
| Ballarat South | Liberal | Tom Cullen | Bill Stephen | | Francis Brown | |
| Balwyn | Liberal | Donald Phelan | Alex Taylor | | John Hansen | |
| Bellarine | Liberal | Francis Brady | Aurel Smith | | James Crockett | |
| Benalla | Country | John Coutts | Dulcie Brack | Tom Trewin | Christopher Cody | |
| Benambra | Country | Edwin Ure | Robert Prior | Tom Mitchell | Francis Keenan | John Hicks (Ind) |
| Bendigo | Liberal | Kevin Curran | Robert Trethewey | | Paul Brennan | |
| Bennettswood | Liberal | Cyril Kennedy | Ian McLaren | | James Tighe | |
| Bentleigh | Liberal | Kenneth Williams | Bob Suggett | | Peter Madden | Noel Allen (Ind) Mary Ovenden (Ind) |
| Box Hill | Liberal | Maurice Sevior | George Reid | | James Marmion | John Clarkson (Ind) |
| Brighton | Liberal | Peter Hansen | John Rossiter | | Keith Linard | Malcolm Wallace-Mitchell (Ind) |
| Broadmeadows | Labor | John Wilton | Howard Thain | | Francis Dowling | |
| Brunswick East | Labor | David Bornstein | James Guest | | Anthony Staunton | |
| Brunswick West | Labor | Campbell Turnbull | Walter Dale | | John Flint | |
| Camberwell | Liberal | Allan McDonald | Vernon Wilcox | | Joseph Stanley | |
| Caulfield | Liberal | George Papadopoulos | Sir Edgar Tanner | | Peter Grant | Evelyn Janover (Ind) |
| Coburg | Independent | Frank Cox | Joan Mathieson | | Peter McCabe | Jack Mutton (Ind) |
| Dandenong | Labor | Alan Lind | Wallace Werrett | | Kevin Leydon | |
| Deer Park | Labor | Jack Ginifer | Douglas Reinehr | | John Cate | |
| Dromana | Liberal | Neil McIntosh | Roberts Dunstan | | Josephus Gobel | |
| Dundas | Liberal | Edward Lewis | Sir William McDonald | Alexander McLennan | James Eveston | Alma Crouch (DGS) John Moodie (Ind) |
| Essendon | Liberal | Ronald Kennelly | Kenneth Wheeler | | Kevin Digby | |
| Evelyn | Liberal | Raymond Donkin | Russell Stokes | | Alfred Gerrard | Maurice Smith (Ind) |
| Footscray | Labor | Robert Fordham | Claus Brumm | | Robin Thomas | |
| Frankston | Liberal | Mervyn Vogt | Edward Meagher | | John Glynn | |
| Geelong | Liberal | John Woolfe | Hayden Birrell | | John Timberlake | |
| Geelong North | Labor | Neil Trezise | Graeme Hawkins | | James Jordan | |
| Gippsland East | Country | Philip Grech | Keith Mason | Bruce Evans | Frank Burns | |
| Gippsland South | Country | Thomas Matthews | James Taylor | John Vinall | John Condon | |
| Gippsland West | Country | James Hudson | Rob Maclellan | Robert Anderson | Michael Houlihan | |
| Gisborne | Liberal | Robert Harrison | Julian Doyle | | Raymond Studham | Roy Hartley (Ind) |
| Glen Iris | Liberal | Douglas Gammon | Jim MacDonald | | John Preece | |
| Glenhuntly | Liberal | Henry Pickard | Joe Rafferty | | Raymond Murphy | |
| Greensborough | Liberal | Bob Fell | Monte Vale | | Raymond Morrissey | Dorothy Frost (DGS) |
| Hampden | Liberal | Vincent Ayres | Sir Henry Bolte | Gilbert Anderson | Francis O'Brien | |
| Hawthorn | Liberal | David Andrews | Walter Jona | | Bernard Gaynor | |
| Heatherton | Liberal | Kenneth Bathie | Norman Billing | | Joseph O'Neill | Herman Crowther (Ind) |
| Ivanhoe | Liberal | Thomas Rich | Vernon Christie | | Michael Lucy | |
| Kara Kara | Country | Esmond Curnow | Bruce Thornhill | Bill Phelan | Robert O'Connor | |
| Kew | Liberal | Rosslyn Ives | Sir Arthur Rylah | | Francis Duffy | Dorothy Buchanan (Ind) Bertram Wainer (Ind) |
| Lowan | Country | Gustav Lehmann | Jim McCabe | Ray Buckley | John Giles | |
| Malvern | Liberal | Christopher Gaffney | Lindsay Thompson | | Thomas O'Reilly | |
| Melbourne | Labor | Arthur Clarey | Allan Waite | | Michael McMahon | |
| Mentone | Liberal | Henry Woodley | Bill Templeton | | Kathleen Andrews | |
| Midlands | Labor | Les Shilton | William Turnor | Leston Laity | Francis Hill | |
| Mildura | Country | Lance Fraser | Kevin Coogan | Milton Whiting | John Conroy | |
| Mitcham | Liberal | John Hyslop | Dorothy Goble | | Marianne Crowe | Ray Nilsen (DGS) |
| Monbulk | Liberal | James Simmonds | Bill Borthwick | | George Noone | |
| Moonee Ponds | Labor | Tom Edmunds | John Williams | | Barry O'Brien | |
| Moorabbin | Liberal | Harry Rourke | Llew Reese | | Salvatore Pinzone | |
| Morwell | Liberal | Derek Amos | Archie Tanner | James Wyeth | Thomas Lawless | |
| Murray Valley | Country | Valda Reid | Robert Crosby | George Moss | John Patterson | |
| Narracan | Liberal | Wilfred Bartholomeusz | Jim Balfour | Reinhardt Reuter | Peter Saunders | |
| Northcote | Labor | Frank Wilkes | | | Albert Dowsey | |
| Oakleigh | Liberal | Anthony Scarcella | Alan Scanlan | | Bernard Slattery | |
| Polwarth | Liberal | John O'Brien | Cec Burgin | Douglas Wade | Leonard Eyre | |
| Portland | Liberal | Bill Lewis | Don McKellar | Alma Uebergang | Adrian McInerney | |
| Prahran | Liberal | Ivan Trayling | Sam Loxton | | John Johnston | James Banks (Ind) David Tuck (DGS) |
| Preston | Labor | Carl Kirkwood | Bruce Spicer | | Maurice Horwood | |
| Reservoir | Labor | Jim Simmonds | Robert Pritchard | | Joseph Fitzgerald | |
| Richmond | Labor | Clyde Holding | Ronald Turner | | Terence Scully | George Samargis (Ind) |
| Ringwood | Liberal | Beatrice Rosindell | Jim Manson | | Edmund Sablovs | |
| Rodney | Country | Doris Best | Ian Biggar | Russell McDonald | Patrick Hansen | |
| St Kilda | Liberal | David Bottomley | Brian Dixon | | John Hughes | Lancelot Hutchinson (DGS) Neville Penton (Ind) |
| Sandringham | Liberal | Margaret Graham | Max Crellin | | William Leech | |
| Scoresby | Liberal | Alan West | Geoff Hayes | | Noel Clarke | |
| Shepparton | Country | Graham Romanes | Linton Laws | Peter Ross-Edwards | Bruno D'Elia | Bill Hunter (Ind) |
| Sunshine | Labor | Denis Lovegrove | Vaclav Ubl | | Robert Charles | |
| Swan Hill | Country | Jack McLean | Laurence Troy | Henry Broad | Rodger Donohue | |
| Syndal | Liberal | Peter Setford | Ray Wiltshire | | Daniel McCabe | |
| Warrnambool | Liberal | Donald Grossman | Ian Smith | Cyril Boyle | Francis Hasell | Robert McCosh (DGS) |
| Williamstown | Labor | Larry Floyd | Richard Groom | | Norman Way | |

## Legislative Council

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.
| Province | Held by | Labor candidates | Liberal candidates | Country candidates | DLP candidates | Other candidates |
| Ballarat | Liberal | Jack Jones | Murray Byrne | | William Bruty | |
| Bendigo | Liberal | Stewart Anderson | Jock Granter | | William Drechsler | |
| Boronia | Liberal | Niall Brennan | Vernon Hauser | | Edmund Burgi | |
| Doutta Galla | Labor | Dolph Eddy | William Pearce | | Hubert Evans | |
| East Yarra | Liberal | Stanley Bannan | Rupert Hamer | | John Rogers | |
| Gippsland | Country | Eric Kent | Dick Long | Arthur Hewson | Gregory Answorth | |
| Higinbotham | Liberal | Anthony Balmer | Murray Hamilton | | Frederick Skinner | |
| Melbourne | Labor | Jack O'Connell | Norman Long | | Gordon Haberman | |
| Melbourne North | Labor | John Walton | Jean Baldwin | | Henry Darroch | |
| Melbourne West | Labor | Bunna Walsh | William McDonald | | Kenneth Berrie | |
| Monash | Liberal | Donald Reeves | Graham Nicol | | William Hoyne | Reginald Murphy (Ind) |
| Northern | Country | Trevor Monti | Albert Baker | Michael Clarke | James Bourke | |
| North Eastern | Country | Colin Sutherland | George Ikinger | Ivan Swinburne | Johannes Van Der Horst | |
| North Western | Country | Pamela Fowler | Heather Mitchell | Bernie Dunn | Stanley Croughan | |
| South Eastern | Labor | Ian Cathie | Roy Ward | | John Launder | |
| South Western | Liberal | Stanley Nash | Glyn Jenkins | Bartus De Groot | William Bond | |
| Templestowe | Liberal | Neville Telfer | Raymond Garrett | | Ernest Dobson | |
| Western | Liberal | Thomas Windsor | Kenneth Gross | Linden Cameron | Alan Beattie | |