Candidates of the 1927 New South Wales state election explained

This is a list of candidates for the 1927 New South Wales state election. The election was held on 8 October 1927.

Retiring members

Labor

• James Dooley (Bathurst)
• Joseph Fitzgerald (Oxley)
• Robert Greig (Ryde)
• William Holdsworth (Sydney)
• Edward McTiernan (Western Suburbs)
• Bob O'Halloran (Eastern Suburbs)

Nationalist

• William Bagnall (St George)
• Theodore Hill (Oxley)

Other

• William Fell (Independent Nationalist, North Shore)

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.

This election reintroduced single-member constituencies after three elections conducted under proportional representation. As such, electorates are not listed as being held by any one party.

Electorate	Labor candidate	Coalition candidate	Other candidates
	James Hannan		John Ross (Nat)	George Daniel (Ind) Vern Goodin (Ind Lab) Charles Riley (Ind)
		Bill Ratcliffe	Ernest Kidd (Nat)
		Robert Stuart-Robertson	Edward Hogan (Nat)
	Alfred McClelland		David Drummond (CP)
			Edmund Best (Nat)
	Walter Sparrow		Milton Jarvie (Nat)	Alexander Huie (Ind)
		Jack Lang		Tom Cheetham (Ind) Patrick Minahan (Ind Lab)
	Harry Doran			H. V. Evatt (Ind Lab)
		James McGirr	Arthur Gardiner (Nat)	Alfred Finney (Ind) Frederick Webster (Ind Nat)
	George Brand		Walter Wearne (Nat)	George Taylor (Ind)
		Gus Kelly	Arthur Brown (Nat)
		Millicent Preston-Stanley (Nat)		Harold Jaques (Ind Nat)
		Benjamin Blackburn (Nat)		Thomas Mutch (Ind Lab)
	Henry Joyce		Sir Thomas Henley (Nat)	Harry Beach (Ind)
	Mark Graham		Arthur Budd (CP)	Robert Gillies (Ind Lab) Frederick Stuart (Ind CP)
		Arthur Tonge	Arthur Long (Nat)
	Joseph Clark		Harold Thorby (CP)
		Jack Baddeley		Malcolm McNeil (Ind)
			Alfred Pollack (CP)	William Zuill (Ind Nat)
			Hyman Goldstein (Nat)
		Ken Hoad	Thomas Fitzpatrick (CP)
	James Pearce		Richard Ball (Nat)
	Ernest Cook		Bertram Stevens (Nat)
			John Lee (Nat)	William Gray (Ind)
	Thomas Gilson		John Ness (Nat)	Donald Croal (Ind) Tom Hoskins (Ind Nat)
			David Anderson (Nat)	William Featherstone (PLP)
			Henry Morton (Nat)
		Tom Keegan	Hedley Rogers (Nat)
	Henry Hall		Walter Bennett (Nat)	William Brown (Ind Nat) William Flannery (Ind)
	Oscar Mostyn		Thomas Bavin (Nat)
		Jack Tully	Jack Garry (Nat)	Archibald Turnbull (Ind)
		Bill Ely	Thomas Morrow (Nat)	John Colquhoun (Ind)
		David Murray	Edward Sanders (Nat)	George Jenner (Ind) James Pendlebury (PLP) John Wilson (Ind)
			Crawford Vaughan (Nat)
	Florence Ewers		Bruce Walker Sr (Nat)	William Grahame (Ind)
	Percy Hannett		James Shand (Nat)
			John Nield (Nat)	Walter Anderson (Ind) William Hodge (Ind)
		Andrew Lysaght	Brian Doe (Nat)
		Hugh Connell	Arthur Ashton (Nat)
			George Overhill (Nat)
		George Booth		Thomas Pearce (Ind Lab)
	Michael Roddy		Ernest Buttenshaw (CP)
			John Scott (Nat)	George Cann (Ind Lab)
	Edgar Nelson		Bryce Walmsley (Nat)	Frederick Dunn (Ind Nat)
			Albert Lane (Nat)	George Boland (Ind)
			William Missingham (CP)	George Boyd (Ind)
	Michael Hagan		Harry Carter (CP)
		Walter O'Hearn	Walter Howarth (Nat)
	Jack White		Alfred Reid (Nat)	Francis Corkery (Ind Nat)
		Carlo Lazzarini	Percy Mansell (Nat)
	Paddy Stokes		William Hedges (CP)
			Richard Arthur (Nat)	George Barrington (Ind)
		Bill Dunn	Gordon Wilkins (CP)
		Mat Davidson	John Dowling (Nat)
		Martin Flannery	William Adams (CP)
		William Scully	Leslie Seccombe (Nat)	Henry Jones (Ind)
			Joseph Jackson (Nat)	Thomas Gollan (Ind) William Miller (Ind)
			Reginald Weaver (Nat)	Fred Aarons (Ind Nat) Alfred Waterhouse (Ind Lab)
			George Waller (Nat)	Walter Baxter (Ind)
		Frank Burke	William Pickup (Nat)
			Ernest Marks (Nat)	Harry Meatheringham (Ind)
		Mark Gosling	James Webb (Nat)	John Gager (Ind)
			John Fitzpatrick (Nat)
			Lewis Martin (Nat)	Albert Suters (Ind) John Thomson (Ind)
	William Bates		Daniel Levy (Nat)
	Alfred Warton		Albert Bruntnell (Nat)
		Michael Burke	William Weller (Nat)	Mary Grayndler (Ind)
	John Connolly		Roy Vincent (CP)
			Ernest Tresidder (Nat)
		William McKell	Frederick Meiklejohn (Nat)
	Edgar Levey		Guy Arkins (Nat)
		John Quirk	Albert Smith (Nat)	Arthur Doughty (Const) Cecil Murphy (Ind Lab)
			Arthur Bridges (Nat)	Francis Pacey (Ind)
		Joseph Cahill	James Morrish (Nat)
	Francis Riley		Henry Bate (Nat)
		Ted Horsington	Alfred Gorrie (Nat)
			William Adkins (Nat)	John Salmon (Ind)
			Frank Chaffey (Nat)	Robert Levien (Ind)
	David Nilon		Hugh Main (CP)	George Burgess (Ind Lab)
			Michael Bruxner (CP)
	James Russell		William Cameron (Nat)
			William Foster (Nat)
	Edward Locke		Matthew Kilpatrick (CP)
				Walter Skelton (PLP)
	Archibald Moate		Carl Glasgow (Nat)
	Richard Lynch	Vernon Treatt (Nat)		Edward Sanders (Ind Nat)
	Daniel Chalker		Sir George Fuller (Nat)
		Billy Davies	Norman Smith (Nat)
			Frederick Davidson (Nat)	Septimus Alldis (Ind Lab)
	George McCarthy		Albert Reid (CP)	Peter Loughlin (Ind Lab)

See also

• Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, 1927–1930

References

• Web site: Antony Green . Green . Antony . 1927 Election candidate index . . New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007.