Candidates of the 1963 Australian federal election explained

This article provides information on candidates who stood for the 1963 Australian federal election. The election was held on 30 November 1963.

By-elections, appointments and defections

By-elections and appointments

• On 1 September 1962, Sam Benson (Labor) was elected to replace Alan Bird (Labor) as the member for Batman.
• On 9 October 1962, George Whiteside (Labor) was appointed a Queensland Senator to replace Max Poulter (Labor).
• On 1 June 1963, Jack Mortimer (Labor) was elected to replace Edgar Russell (Labor) as the member for Grey.
• On 28 September 1963, Len Devine (Labor) was elected to replace Eddie Ward (Labor) as the member for East Sydney.

Retiring Members

Labor

• Norman Makin MP (Bonython, SA)
• Victor Kearney MP (Cunningham, NSW)
• Albert Thompson MP (Port Adelaide, SA)

Country

• Charles Davidson MP (Dawson, Qld)
• David Drummond MP (New England, NSW)
• Hugh Leslie MP (Moore, WA)

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

Electorate	Held by	Labor candidate	Coalition candidate	DLP candidate	Other candidates
			Eric Costa	Milovan Kovjanic (Lib)		Pat Clancy (CPA)
			Len Reynolds	Jack Manning (Lib)	Norma Boyle
		William Baird		John Cramer (Lib)	Allan Dwyer	Joseph Woodhouse (NGP)
			Jim Harrison	Terence Morrish (Lib)	Kevin Davis
		Lawrence McCulloch		Harry Turner (Lib)	Dominique Droulers
				John England (CP)	George Boland
		Frank McGuren		Ian Robinson (CP)
				Jack Hough (Lib)		Bill McDougall (CPA)
			William O'Connor		Peter Keogh
			Joe Clark	Frederick Harding (CP)
			Len Devine	William Foster (Lib)		Bill Brown (CPA)
			Allan Fraser	Dugald Munro (Lib)	John Donohue
		James Monaghan		Malcolm Mackay (Lib)		Stanislaus Kelly (Ind) Harold O'Reilly (Ind)
				David Fairbairn (Lib)	Lawrence Esler
			Fred Daly	Robert Leech (Lib)		Joyce Stevens (CPA)
		Kenneth Green		Ian Allan (CP)
			Les Johnson	William Cover (Lib)	George Apap	John Mantova (Ind) John Phillips (NGP)
		Arthur Fuller		Geoffrey Ashton (Lib) Ian Pettitt* (CP)	Charles Rowe
			Bert James	John Wassell (Lib)	Aubrey Barr	Evan Phillips (CPA)
			Dan Curtin	Sidney Pitkethly (Lib)		Jim Baird (CPA)
			Frank Stewart	Russell Carter (Lib)		Frank Ball (Ind)
		John Canobi		Laurie Failes (CP)	Mario Morandini
		John Holland		William McMahon (Lib)	Reginald Lawson
		John Allan		Philip Lucock (CP)		Joe Cordner (Ind)
		Don Nilon		Jeff Bate (Lib)	Albert Perish	Ronald Sarina (Ind)
		Mabel Elliott		Bill Wentworth (Lib)	Philip Cohen	Hugh Begg (CPA)
			Tony Luchetti	John Heesh (Lib)
		John Armitage		Les Irwin (Lib)	Malcolm Towner	Albert Ackerman (NGP) John Ashe (Ind)
		Donald White		Ian Sinclair (CP)		James Gordon (Ind) Andrew Monley (Ind)
			Charles Jones	Eric Cupit (Lib)	Jack Collins
		Maurice Isaacs		William Jack (Lib)	Michael Fitzpatrick
		Les Haylen		Tom Hughes (Lib)	Vincent Couch
		Maxwell McLaren		Sir Garfield Barwick (Lib)	Edward Beck
		Archibald Jones		Allen Fairhall (Lib)
		Syd Einfeld		William Aston (Lib)	John Antill
			Tom Uren	Thomas Reeves (Lib)	Mick Carroll
		Matthew Walsh		Doug Anthony (CP)		Peter Bray (Ind)
		Jack Ward		Hugh Roberton (CP)	Victor Groutsch
				Roger Dean (Lib)	George Britton
			Charles Griffiths	William Gilchrist (Lib)	Robert Burke	Barbara Curthoys (CPA)
		Lionel Clay		Len Bosman (Lib)	John Vandergriff
		John Lancaster		John Cockle (Lib)	John Plunkett
			Jim Cope	Louis Mamo (Lib)	Bernard Atkinson	Harry Hatfield (CPA)
		Nell Simpson		Les Bury (Lib)		Arthur Bergman (Ind)
			Gough Whitlam	Kevin Byrne (Lib)	Harry Cole
			Dan Minogue		William Doherty	Charles Kilduff (NGP) Maurice Law (Ind)

Queensland

Electorate	Held by	Labor candidate	Coalition candidate	DLP candidate	Other candidates
		Jack Comber		Wylie Gibbs (Lib)
			Manfred Cross	Leith Sinclair (Lib)	John O'Connell	Warren Bowden (CPA)
			George Gray	Maurice South (Lib)	Alphonsus Schleger
		Cyril Mitchell		Reginald Swartz (Lib)	Kenneth Rawle
				George Shaw (CP)	Edwin Eshmann
		William Weir		Charles Adermann (CP)	Geoffrey Traill
			Wilfred Coutts	Keith Grant (Lib)	Paul Tucker
			Ted Harding	Roy Pope (Lib)		Frank Bishop (CPA)
			Bill Riordan	Keith Siemon (CP)	John Judge
			Bill Fulton	Robert Norman (CP)	Arthur Trembath
		Don Cameron		Kevin Cairns (Lib)	Frank Andrews
		Trevor Alexander		Wilfred Brimblecombe (CP)	Mervyn Eunson
				Charles Barnes (CP)	Michael O'Connor
		John O'Donnell		James Killen (Lib)	Eric Allingham
			Bill Hayden	Arthur Chresby (Lib)	Terence Burns
		Reginald O'Brien		Alan Hulme (Lib)	Brian Balaam	Francis O'Mara (Ind)
		Raymond McCreath		Nigel Drury (Lib)	Brian O'Brien	Robert Hooker (SCP)
			Brendan Hansen	Albert White (CP)	Rogers Judge	Geoffrey Nichols (SCP)

South Australia

Electorate	Held by	Labor candidate	Liberal candidate	DLP candidate	Other candidates
			Joe Sexton	Karl-Juergen Liebetrau	Patrick Coffey
		Robert Nielsen		Alick Downer		Elliott Johnston (CPA)
		Norman Alcock		Jim Forbes		Harvey Burns (Ind)
					Edward Timlin	Alan Miller (CPA)
		Ronald Basten		Sir John McLeay	Ted Farrell
			Jack Mortimer	Vern Dyason	William Ahern
			Clyde Cameron		Richard Mills
			Pat Galvin		Brian Crowe
					George Basisovs	Jim Moss (CPA)
				Keith Wilson	Walter Doran
		John Penrose		Bert Kelly

Tasmania

Electorate	Held by	Labor candidate	Liberal candidate	DLP candidate	Other candidates
			Lance Barnard	James Wardlaw	Frederick Kaye
			Ron Davies	Paul Fenton	Frances Lane
		Donald Finlay		Athol Townley	Brian Bresnehan	Max Bound (CPA) Bruce Brown (Ind)
		John Parsons		Bill Falkinder	Andrew Defendini
			Gil Duthie	Donald Paterson	Alastair Davidson

Victoria

Electorate	Held by	Labor candidate	Coalition candidate	DLP candidate	Other candidates
		Ephraim Briskman		Ray Whittorn (Lib)	John Ryan	Edith Jewell (Ind)
		Allan Williams		Dudley Erwin (Lib)
			Sam Benson	Bruce Skeggs (Lib)
			Noel Beaton	Fred Grimwade (Lib)	Bill Drechsler
				Billy Snedden (Lib)	Henri de Sachau	Brian Crossley (Ind) Tom Gilhoooley (Ind)
				Sir Wilfrid Kent Hughes (Lib)	John Duffy
		Fred Black		Dan Mackinnon (Lib)	Francis O'Brien
				Hubert Opperman (Lib)	James Mahoney
			Frank Courtnay	Peter Coupe (Lib)
		Pat Hubbard		Frank Davis (Lib)	Maurice Weston
		Gwendolyn Noad		Peter Howson (Lib)	John Speed	George Gabriel (Ind)
				Robert Lindsay (Lib)	Martin Curry
			Hector McIvor	Harley Price (Lib)	Jan Roszkowski	David Davies (CPA)
		Sydney Evans		Peter Nixon (CP)	John Hansen
		George Taylor		Max Fox (Lib)	Joseph McHugh	Herbert Viney (Ind Lab)
		Roger Kirby		Harold Holt (Lib)	Celia Laird
		Reginald Butler		Don Chipp (Lib)	William Cameron
		Mervyn Huggins		Ian Foyster (Lib) Mac Holten* (CP)	Christopher Cody
		Paul Court		William Haworth (Lib)	John Hughes
		Robert White		Sir Robert Menzies (Lib)		Ralph Gibson (CPA)
			Reg Pollard	Bernard Treseder (Lib)	Jim Marmion
				John Jess (Lib)	Kevin Adamson
		Maurice Hinton		Winton Turnbull (CP)	Michael Howley
		Neil Armour		Philip Stokes (Lib)		John Murray (ARP) Edwin Ryan (Ind)
				Alex Buchanan (Lib)	Les Hilton
			Arthur Calwell	Charles Hider (Lib)
			Frank Crean	James Pond (Lib)	George O'Dwyer	Roger Wilson (CPA)
		Neil Frankland		John McEwen (CP)	Brian Lacey
			Ted Peters	John Harrison (Lib)	James Abikhair	Ron Hearn (CPA)
				Malcolm Fraser (Lib)	Terence Callander
			Gordon Bryant	James Muntz (Lib)	John Hardy
		Thomas Windsor		Robert King (CP) Howard Rodda (Lib)	Adrian Cahill
			Jim Cairns	Anthony Hearder (Lib)

Western Australia

Electorate	Held by	Labor candidate	Coalition candidate	DLP candidate	Other candidates
		Charles Edwards		John Hallett (CP) Neil McNeill (Lib)		Ronald Batey (Ind)
				Paul Hasluck (Lib)	Francis Dwyer	John Gandini (CPA)
		Robert Smithson		Gordon Freeth (Lib)		Frank Oates (Ind CP)
			Kim Beazley	John Waghorne (Lib)		James Collins (Ind) Paddy Troy (CPA)
			Fred Collard	Peter Browne (Lib)	James Ardagh Antonius Berkhout
		Wilbur Bennett		Hugh Halbert (Lib) Don Maisey* (CP)
		Edward Halse		Fred Chaney (Lib)	Arthur White
			Harry Webb	Doug Cash (Lib)	Brian Peachey
				Richard Cleaver (Lib)	Gerardus Sappelli	Warwick Hill (Ind)

Senate

Sitting Senators are shown in bold text. Tickets that elected at least one Senator are highlighted in the relevant colour. Successful candidates are identified by an asterisk (*).

Queensland

A special election was held in Queensland to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Labor Senator Max Poulter. George Whiteside, also of the Labor Party, had been appointed to this vacancy in the interim period.

Summary by party

Beside each party is the number of seats contested by that party in the House of Representatives for each state, as well as an indication of whether the party contested the special Senate election in Queensland.

Party	NSW	Vic	Qld		WA	SA	Tas	ACT	NT	Total
	HR	HR	HR	S	HR	HR	HR	HR	HR	HR	S
Australian Labor Party	47	33	18		8	11	5	1	1	124	1
Liberal Party of Australia	36	30	11		9	8	5	1		100	1
Australian Country Party	10	5	7		2					24
Democratic Labor Party	32	33	18		6	8	5			102	1
Communist Party of Australia	9	4	2		2	3	1			21
New Guinea Party	4									4
Social Credit Party			2							2
Australian Republican Party		1								1
Independent and other	12	6	1		4	1	1			25

See also

• 1963 Australian federal election
• Members of the Australian House of Representatives, 1961–1963
• Members of the Australian House of Representatives, 1963–1966
• List of political parties in Australia

References

• Adam Carr's Election Archive - House of Representatives 1963
• Adam Carr's Election Archive - Senate 1963