Candidates of the 1950 Western Australian state election explained

The 1950 Western Australian state election was held on 25 March 1950.

Retiring Members

Labor

• Frederick Smith (MLA) (Brown Hill-Ivanhoe)

LCL

• Ross McDonald (MLA) (West Perth)

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 candidate	LCL candidate	Country candidate	Other candidates
		William Martin	Alistair MacDonald		Leonard Hill	James Bolitho (Ind.)
				James Mann	Keith Halbert Milford Smith
		William Eastcott			Alwyn Wagner	John Smith (Ind.)
			Charlie Oliver
				James Murray	Percy Payne
		Alfred Reynolds				Carlyle Ferguson (Ind. Country)
				Charles North
			Harry May
		John Vivian
		Ronald Knowler		Gerald Wild	John Ellis
		John Rolinson	Colin Cameron		Ray Owen Frederick Schoch
			Herb Graham
			Emil Nulsen	Roy Cunningham
			Joseph Sleeman	Lennox Dickson		Kathleen Duff (Ind. Labor) Kevin Healy (Comm.)
			Frank Wise
					Edmund Hall
				David Brand
			John Brady	Irene Seaton		Alexander Jolly (Comm.)
			Herbert McCulloch	Roy Cunningham
		Robert McCallum			Walter Eckersley
			Herbert Styants	Albert Rogers
					Crawford Nalder Wilhelm Beeck
			Aubrey Coverley
			Alexander Panton	George Melville
		John Gaffney				Harry Shearn (Ind.)
			John Tonkin	Helen Brinkley
			Lionel Kelly	Charles Davies
				Henry Hawkins
					John Ackland
			Bill Hegney	John Mann		John Plummer-Leitch (Ind. Labor)
				Arthur Abbott		James Collins (Ind.)
					George Cornell
			William Marshall
				Ross McLarty
					Victor Doney
			Norbert Keenan Cyril Bird			David Grayden (Ind. Liberal) John Symonds (Ind. Liberal)
				Alfred Spencer
			Albert Hawke		Thomas Letch
			Alec Rodoreda	Leonard Taplin
		Percy Munday			Charles Perkins Harrie Seward
			Thomas Fox
		Samuel Lynn		George Yates
					Arthur Watts
		Thomas Henley		Florence Cardell-Oliver
		Archibald McNess			Lindsay Thorn
				William Bovell	Robert Leiper
						William Read (Ind.)
			Ernest Hoar
		Richard Knox		Les Nimmo
		Lucien Triat

See also

• Members of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly, 1947–1950
• Members of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly, 1950–1953
• 1950 Western Australian state election

References

• Book: Prescott, David Black with the assistance of Valerie. Election statistics : Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, 1890-1996. 1997. Western Australian Parliamentary History Project and Western Australian Electoral Commission. Perth, [W.A.]. 0730984095.