Candidates of the 1927 Victorian state election explained

The 1927 Victorian state election was held on 9 April 1927.

Seat changes

• Abbotsford Labor MLA Gordon Webber contested Heidelberg.
• Ballarat East Labor MLA William McAdam contested Ballarat.
• Ballarat West Nationalist MLA Matthew Baird contested Ballarat.
• Bendigo West Labor MLA Arthur Cook contested Bendigo.
• Boroondara Nationalist MLA Edmund Greenwood contested Nunawading.
• Bulla Labor MLA Ralph Hjorth contested Grant.
• Castlemaine and Maldon Nationalist MLA Harry Lawson contested Castlemaine and Kyneton.
• Dalhousie Labor MLA Reg Pollard contested Bulla and Dalhousie.
• Daylesford Labor MLA James McDonald contested Mildura.
• Eaglehawk Country Progressive MLA Albert Dunstan contested Eaglehawk.
• East Melbourne Nationalist MLA Alfred Farthing contested Caulfield.
• Essendon Labor MLA Frank Keane contested Coburg.
• Fitzroy Labor MLA Maurice Blackburn contested Clifton Hill.
• Glenelg Labor MLA Ernie Bond contested Port Fairy and Glenelg.
• Grenville Labor MLA Arthur Hughes contested Hampden.
• Jika Jika Labor MLA John Cain contested Northcote.
• Kara Kara Nationalist MLA John Pennington contested Kara Kara and Borung.
• Korong Country MLA Isaac Weaver contested Korong and Eaglehawk.
• Maryborough Labor MLA George Frost contested Maryborough and Daylesford.
• North Melbourne Labor MLA George Prendergast contested Footscray.
• Port Fairy Labor MLA Henry Bailey contested Warrnambool.
• Wangaratta Country MLA Sir John Bowser contested Wangaratta and Ovens.
• Warrenheip Labor MLA Edmond Hogan contested Warrenheip and Grenville.

Retiring Members

• Note: Warrnambool Nationalist MLA James Deany died a month before the election; no by-election was held due to the proximity of the general election.

Labor

• Luke Clough MLA (Bendigo East)

Nationalist

• Alfred Billson MLA (Ovens)
• John Gordon MLA (Waranga)

Country

• David Allison MLA (Borung)

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 candidates	Nationalist candidates	Country candidates	Other candidates
		Arthur Wallace				Charles Merrett (Lib)
		William McGrath		Sir Alexander Peacock
			William McAdam	Matthew Baird
		John Jensen		Edward Morley
				Patrick Connell		John Carlisle (Ind) Edward Cleary* (CPP)
				Henry Beardmore
			Arthur Cook	William Ewing
		Robert Dodman				David Evans (Ind) Victor Ginn (Lib) Louis Holmes (Ind Nat) Robert Sylvester (Ind Nat)
						Oswald Snowball (Ind Nat)
			James Jewell	Leonard Smith
			Reg Pollard	Andrew Rowan	Alexander Wilson	John Murphy (Lib)
			Robert Solly			Roderick McSolvin (Lib)
				Harry Lawson
			Alfred Farthing			Frederick Forrest (Lib) John Packer (Lib)
			Maurice Blackburn	Charles Miller
			Frank Keane	Henry Richards
			Tom Tunnecliffe	Ralph Stredwick
		James O'Keefe		Frank Groves		Archibald Wilson (Lib)
			Bill Slater	Gilbert Smith
				Robert Gilbertson
		Edward Hodges				William Everard (Ind Nat) Joseph Smith (Lib)
			Jack Holland	Arthur Fenton
			George Prendergast
			William Brownbill	Julius Solomon
					Albert Lind	Frederick Blight (Ind)
				John Buchan		James McLachlan (Ind)
		Michael Buckley	Walter West	Thomas Anderson David White		Henry Bodman (Ind)
		Thomas Houlihan	James Wilson		Arthur Walter	Arthur a'Beckett (Ind) John Dowd (CPP) Robert Garlick (Lib)
					Murray Bourchier
			Ralph Hjorth	Francis Connelly		James Farrer (Ind)
						Henry Angus (Ind Nat) Farquhar Matheson (CPP)
			Arthur Hughes	David Oman
		Edward Cummins		Sir William McPherson
			Gordon Webber
				John Pennington	William Pearce	Finlay Cameron (CPP)
						William Clark (Lib) Wilfrid Kent Hughes* (Prog Nat)
				Isaac Weaver		Albert Dunstan (CPP)
					Marcus Wettenhall	George Clyne (CPP)
			George Frost
			Tom Hayes			Carlyle Ferguson (Lib)
				James Lochhead		Albert Allnutt (CPP)
					Alfred Downward	Cyril Croskell (Lib)
			John Cain
		John Toohey		Edmund Greenwood Garnet Soilleux		Robert Halliday (Lib) Stephen Thompson (Lib)
				Robert Knox		Thomas Riley (Lib)
		Francis Williamson		Henry Pickering		Harold Glowrey (CPP)
				James McDonald
			Ernie Bond	William Shaw
			James Murphy
			Arthur Jackson
			Ted Cotter
					John Allan	Percy Bryce (Lib) Frederick Churches (CPP)
			Frederic Eggleston			Burnett Gray (Lib) Florence Johnson (Ind Lab)
		Robert McCracken		Richard Toutcher
					Francis Old	Ernest Gray (CPP) William Sullivan (Ind)
		Charles Cope		Stanley Argyle		Horace Mason (Lib)
		Edward Withers	George Wilson		Edwin Mackrell
		Henry Courtney				Henry Glynn (Ind) George Ingram (Lib) John Mahony (Ind Nat)
		James Bermingham	Samuel Barnes
					Sir John Bowser	William Higgins (Lib)
		Gerald Honan		Ernest Coyle Henry Thomas	John McKee
			Edmond Hogan
			Henry Bailey	James Swan		William Downing (Lib)
			John Lemmon	Francis Wilcher
				William Walker		William Easton (Lib)

See also

• 1928 Victorian Legislative Council election

References

• Psephos - Adam Carr's Election Archive