Candidates of the 1947 Victorian state election explained

The 1947 Victorian state election was held on 8 November 1947.

Retiring Members

Country

• Alfred Kirton MLA (Mornington)

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	Liberal candidates	Country candidates	Other candidates
		Frank Crean
		Thomas Powell	Hector Alcock		Russell White
		James Miller		Thomas Hollway
				Thomas Maltby
			Thomas Nolan		Frederick Cook
					Tom Mitchell
			Bill Galvin	Eric Thomson	Norman Oliver
					Wilfred Mibus	Finlay Cameron (Ind CP)
		Bob Gray				Reginald Cooper (Ind Lib)
				Ray Tovell		Ian Macfarlan (Ind)
			James Jewell	Alfred Wall
				Robert Whately		Walter Fordham (Ind Lib)
			Bill Barry	Stanley Lang
				Alexander Dennett
			Jack Cremean	Neil McKay
		George Henderson	Walter Perse			Charlie Mutton (Ind)
			Bill Towers	William Boughton
		Frank Field			Alexander Caldwell
		Bill Slater
				John Don
		Arthur Drakeford
		Roderick Leeson		William Everard		Patrick McKie (Ind Lib)
			Jack Holland	William Massey
			Fanny Brownbill
		Thomas Parkinson			Albert Lind
		James Johns
		Percy Vagg			Herbert Hyland
		Fred Rush	Basil Morris		Matthew Bennett
						Ian McLaren (Ind)
		Joseph Smith			Cyril Davy
		Horace Hughes			Frederick Holden
		Raymond Hyatt				Alfred Matthey (Ind CP)
				Fred Edmunds		Leslie Hollins (Ind)
						Robert Gardner (Ind) Leighton Weber (Ind Lib)
		Rupert Purchase		Wilfrid Kent Hughes
		Ernest Duus			Albert Dunstan
				Trevor Oldham		Mascotte Brown (Ind) Andrew Sinclair (Ind Lib)
			Tom Hayes	George Crowther
		George White
					Leslie Webster	Jack Gill (Ind Lab)
			Clive Stoneham
		Louis Garlick
			Samuel Merrifield	Wallace Crichton
		Bertram Maslen			Eric Rundle
		Neil Stewart			George Moss
			John Cain	Jack McColl
		Squire Reid
		Edwin Morris			Edward Guye
		Robert Holt	James Lindsey
			Tom Corrigan	Stanley Evans		Ralph Gibson (CPA)
			Bill Quirk	Martin Smith
			William Ruthven	Frederick Lee
		Raymond Peake			Keith Dodgshun
			Stan Keon
		Ernie Morton
			Morton Garner		Richard Brose
				Sir George Knox
		Edward Newman			John McDonald
						Archie Michaelis (Ind Lib)
			Ernie Shepherd	Lindsay Smith
		Philip Meehan			John Hipworth	Stanley Taylor (Ind CP)
				Robert Hamilton		Edgar Morton (Ind Lib) Peter Ryan (Ind)
		Fred Reid			Henry Bailey
			John Lemmon	Clifford Rankine		George Paine (Ind Lab)
		William McKenzie

See also

• 1946 Victorian Legislative Council election

References

• Psephos - Adam Carr's Election Archive