Candidates of the 1918 Queensland state election explained

The 1918 Queensland state election was held on 16 March 1918.

Since the previous election, the Liberal Party had reconstituted itself as the National Party. The five members of the Queensland Farmers' Union elected in 1915 contested this election as part of the National Party.

By-elections

• On 18 August 1915, George Pollock (Labor) replaced William Hamilton (Labor) as the member for Gregory after the latter's appointment to the Queensland Legislative Council on 10 July 1915.
• On 1 April 1916, Thomas Wilson (Labor) replaced David Bowman (Labor) as the member for Fortitude Valley after the latter's death on 25 February 1916.
• On 31 March 1917, David Weir (Labor) replaced Alfred Jones (Labor) as the member for Maryborough after the latter's appointment to the Queensland Legislative Council on 15 February 1917.
• On 12 May 1917, Frank Forde (Labor) replaced John Adamson (Labor/Independent) as the member for Rockhampton after the latter's resignation to run for the Australian Senate on 21 March 1917.

Retiring Members

• Note: Flinders Labor MLA John May died before the election; no by-election was held.

National

• Thomas Bridges MLA (Nundah)
• James Forsyth MLA (Murrumba)
• James Stodart MLA (Logan)

Candidates

Sitting members at the time of the election are shown in bold text.

Electorate	Held by	Labor candidate	National candidate	Other candidates
		William Lawson		John Appel
		James Desmond		Arthur Moore
			Edward Land	David Roberts
			T. J. Ryan	Henry Buchanan
			Charles Collins
			Frank Cooper	Edwin Little
			Mick Kirwan	Norman Warrall
		Hugh McMinn			Joseph Marconi (Ind)
			George Barber	William Foster
			John Huxham	William Sparkes
					William Murphy (Ind)
		Joseph Warmington		Bernard Corser
				Colin Rankin
			William McCormack	William Griffin
				Donald Gunn
			William Wellington
			Ted Theodore	William Worley
			Henry Ryan	Walter Anderson
		Hector Spratt		Harry Walker
		John Moir	James Purcell		Francis Grayson (Ind Nat)
		Austin McKeon		William Vowles
		Michael Alke		William Bebbington
			William Gillies	William Sloan
		James MacDougall		Robert Roberts
			William Lloyd	William Wright
		Joseph Sweeney		Ernest Bell
			Harry Hartley
				William Little
			Thomas Wilson	Bernard Revenall-Holland
			George Pollock	Eric Anning
			Thomas Dunstan	Alexander Glasgow
			William Lennon	Ralph Johnson
			David Gledson
			John Gilday	John Morton
			James O'Sullivan	Andrew Taylor
			James Larcombe
		William Hartley
			Herbert Hardacre	William Smout
				William Drayton Armstrong
			William Forgan Smith	William Manning
			John Hunter	Robert Swan
			William Bertram	Pearce Douglas	Victor Cross (Ind)
			David Weir	Charles McGhie
			Peter McLachlan
			John Payne	Alfred Watts
				Edward Swayne
			James Stopford	Alexander Cameron
			Thomas Foley	Charles Pennger
		John Durkin		Godfrey Morgan
		Arthur Sampson
			Thomas Armfield
		Walter Burton		Robert Hodge
			Jens Peterson	Harry Hill
		Sid Cook
		Thomas Jones
			John Fihelly		John Adamson (Ind)
		James Mahony	David Edwards		Percy Bayley (Ind Nat)
			George Carter
			Vern Winstanley	Alfred Smith	William Morgan (Ind Nat)
			Frank Forde	John Egerton
				Henry Stevens
			Edgar Free	Albert Harte
		Bill Heffernan		Henry Somerset
		Alexander McDonald		Andrew Petrie
		William McCosker		Edward Macartney
				James Tolmie
			Daniel Ryan	Hedley Gelston
			Harry Coyne	Jerry Tamblyn
		David Swiss-Davies		George Barnes
				Charles Booker
		Herbert McPhail

See also

• 1918 Queensland state election
• Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly, 1915–1918
• Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly, 1918–1920
• List of political parties in Australia

References

• Book: Hughes, Colin A.. Voting for the Queensland legislative assembly, 1890–1964. 1974. Dept. of Political Science, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University. Canberra. 0-7081-0301-4.