Candidates of the 1929 Australian federal election explained

This article provides information on candidates who stood for the 1929 Australian federal election. The election was held on 12 October 1929. There was no election for the Senate.

By-elections, appointments and defections

By-elections and appointments

Defections

Retiring Members

No members retired in 1929.

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.

New South Wales

ElectorateHeld byLabor candidateCoalition candidateOther candidates
James Tully William Myhill (Nat)
Sir Neville Howse (Nat)
Edward Riley William Pickup (Nat)
Earle Page (CP)
Ted Theodore Thomas Morrow (Nat)
Arthur Blakeley Brian Doe (Nat)
John West Hyman Diamond (Nat)
John Perkins (Nat)
Aubrey Abbott (CP)
Parker Moloney Thomas Fitzpatrick (CP)
Rowley James
William Long Dick Dein (Nat)
Ben Chifley Charles Dash (Nat)
Graham Pratten (Nat) Edward Beeby (APP)
Thomas Wilson Victor Thompson (CP)
David Watkins
Lewis Nott (Nat) Clifford Banks (Ind Lab)
Billy Hughes* (Ind Nat)
Ernie Judd (Soc Lab)
Charles Marr (Nat)
Eric Bowden (Nat)
Percy Coleman Ernest Carr (Nat)
Robert Gibson (CP)
Roland Green* (CP)
William Nulty William Killen
Michael Fitzgerald Sydney Gardner (Nat)
Edward Riley William Adkins (Nat)
Archdale Parkhill (Nat) Richard Windeyer (Ind PP)
Arthur Manning (Nat) Walter Marks
Bert Lazzarini Bernard Grogan (Nat)
Jack Beasley Lindsay Thompson (Nat)

Queensland

ElectorateHeld byLabor candidateCoalition candidateOther candidates
Donald Cameron (Nat)
Frank Forde Robert Staines (Nat)
Arthur Morgan (Nat) Sir Littleton Groom (Ind Nat)
George Martens William Amiet (Nat)
Grosvenor Francis (Nat)
George Mackay (Nat) Frederick O'Keefe (Ind)
Robert Munro James Hunter (CP)
Robert Taylor Josiah Francis (Nat)
James Bayley (Nat)
Bernard Corser (CP)

South Australia

ElectorateHeld byLabor candidateCoalition candidate
George Edwin Yates Arthur Wreford (Nat)
Walter Parsons (Nat)
Malcolm Cameron (Nat)
John Price Bill McCann (Nat)
Andrew Lacey Oliver Badman (CP)
Norman Makin
Maurice Collins (CP)
Charles Hawker* (Nat)

Tasmania

ElectorateHeld byLabor candidateNationalist candidateIndependent candidate(s)
Syd Jackson
George Bell
Charles Culley Hubert Brettingham-Moore
John Gage
Sir John Gellibrand
Horace Walch
David Blanchard
William McWilliams
Llewellyn Atkinson

Victoria

ElectorateHeld byLabor candidateCoalition candidateOther candidates
Thomas White (Nat)
Charles McGrath Fred Edmunds (Nat)
Frank Brennan Cecil Keeley (Nat)
Geoffry Hurry (Nat)
Frank Anstey Lionel Hahn (Nat)
William Gibson (CP)
John Lister (Nat)
Edward Hill William Hill (CP)
Sir Arthur Robinson (Nat) George Maxwell
Stanley Bruce (Nat) Joseph Burch (Ind Lib)
Michael Buckley Thomas Paterson (CP)
Henry Gullett (Nat) William Bolton (Ind Nat)
Paul Jones Robert Cook (CP)
Leslie Sambell (CP)
Arthur Walter (CP)
Albert Langker John Latham (Nat)
James Fenton Percy Anderson (Nat)
William Maloney
James Mathews
Arthur Rodgers (Nat)
John Harris (CP) Percy Stewart (CPP)
James Scullin

Western Australia

ElectorateHeld byLabor candidateCoalition candidateIndependent candidate(s)
John Prowse (CP)
John Curtin Keith Watson (Nat)
Albert Green William Greenard (Nat)
William Pickering (CP)
Walter Nairn (Nat) John McCoo (Ind)
Edward Mann (Ind Nat)
Henry Gregory (CP)

See also

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