Candidates of the Queensland state election, 1941

This is a list of candidates who stood for the 1941 Queensland state election
Queensland state election, 1941
Elections were held in the Australian state of Queensland on 29 March 1941 to elect the 62 members of the state's Legislative Assembly. The Labor government of Premier William Forgan Smith was seeking a fourth term in office.-Key dates:-Results:...

. The election was held on 29 March 1941.

The main parties in the election were the Labor Party

Australian Labor Party

The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

, led by Premier William Forgan Smith

William Forgan Smith

William Forgan Smith , generally known as Forgan Smith, was Premier of the Australian state of Queensland from 1932 to 1942. He came to dominate politics in the state during the 1930s, and his populism, firm leadership, defence of states' rights and interest in state development make him something...

, the Country Party

National Party of Australia

The National Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Traditionally representing graziers, farmers and rural voters generally, it began as the The Country Party, but adopted the name The National Country Party in 1975, changed to The National Party of Australia in 1982. The party is...

, led by Leader of the Opposition

Leader of the Opposition (Queensland)

This is a list of Leaders of the Opposition in Queensland. Prior to 1898, opposition to the government of the day was less organised. Thus the Queensland Parliamentary Record does not designate Leaders of the Opposition before then....

Ted Maher, and the United Australia Party

United Australia Party

The United Australia Party was an Australian political party that was founded in 1931 and dissolved in 1945. It was the political successor to the Nationalist Party of Australia and predecessor to the Liberal Party of Australia...

, led by Hugh Russell.

By-elections

On 27 May 1939, Arthur Jones (Labor) was elected to succeed William Wellington (Labor), who had died on 2 March, as the member for Charters Towers
Electoral district of Charters Towers
Charters Towers was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland. It has had three incarnations, most recently being created as part of a redistribution in 1991 and lasting until 2008....

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On 27 May 1939, Charles Brown
Charles Brown (Australian politician)
Charles Victor Watson Brown was an Australian politician. He was the Independent member for Gregory in the Queensland Legislative Assembly from 1939 to 1941....

(Independent) was elected to succeed George Pollock, who had died on 24 March, as the member for Gregory
Electoral district of Gregory
The district of Gregory is a Queensland Legislative Assembly electoral district in Queensland, Australia.-Members for Gregory:-Election results:-External links:*...

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On 27 May 1939, George Keyatta (Labor) was elected to succeed Maurice Hynes
Maurice Hynes
Maurice Patrick Hynes was an Australian politician. He was the Labor member for Townsville in the Queensland Legislative Assembly from 1923 to 1939. He was also Secretary of Labour and Industry from 1932 to 1939 in William Forgan Smith's government....

, who had died on 27 March, as the member for Townsville
Electoral district of Townsville
The district of Townsville is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland. The seat is one of four within the Townsville urban area in North Queensland, and covers the Eastern and Northern suburbs of the City of Townsville as well as Magnetic Island and...

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On 9 November 1940, Bill Moore (Labor) was elected to succeed James Keogh, who had died on 31 August 1940, as the member for Merthyr
Electoral district of Merthyr
Merthyr was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland from 1912 to 1992.First created for the 1912 state election, the district was based in inner Brisbane centred on the suburb of New Farm, covering areas that previously belonged to the district of...

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On 9 November 1940, Stephen Theodore (Labor) was elected to succeed Percy Pease, who had died on 17 September 1940, as the member for Herbert.

Labor

John Mullan
John Mullan (Australian politician)
John Mullan was an Irish-born Australian politician. Born in Dublin, where he was educated, he migrated to Australia in 1889, becoming a clerk, railway worker and miner. He was an organiser of the Charters Towers Miners' Union and the Australian Workers' Union...

(Carpentaria)

Candidates

Sitting members at the time of the election are in bold. All of the candidates standing as "Independent Socialists" were actually members of the Communist Party of Australia

Communist Party of Australia

The Communist Party of Australia was founded in 1920 and dissolved in 1991; it was succeeded by the Socialist Party of Australia, which then renamed itself, becoming the current Communist Party of Australia. The CPA achieved its greatest political strength in the 1940s and faced an attempted...

who could not stand under their party label due to illegality. Those marked as standing as Communists are sourced from Hughes & Graham (p. 192-198).

Electorate	Held by	Labor Australian Labor Party The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia... Candidate	Country National Party of Australia The National Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Traditionally representing graziers, farmers and rural voters generally, it began as the The Country Party, but adopted the name The National Country Party in 1975, changed to The National Party of Australia in 1982. The party is... Candidate	UAP United Australia Party The United Australia Party was an Australian political party that was founded in 1931 and dissolved in 1945. It was the political successor to the Nationalist Party of Australia and predecessor to the Liberal Party of Australia... Candidate	Other Party Candidate(s)	Independent Independent (politician) In politics, an independent or non-party politician is an individual not affiliated to any political party. Independents may hold a centrist viewpoint between those of major political parties, a viewpoint more extreme than any major party, or they may have a viewpoint based on issues that they do... Candidate(s)

Albert Electoral district of Albert The electoral district of Albert is a Legislative Assembly electorate in the state of Queensland. Albert is named for the Albert River, which runs through the electorate and separates Logan City from Gold Coast City...	Country	John Bray	Thomas Plunkett Jr.
Aubigny Electoral district of Aubigny The electoral district of Aubigny was a Legislative Assembly electorate in the state of Queensland. It was first created in a redistribution ahead of the 1873 state election, and existed until the 1972 state election....	Country	Adolphus Baker	Walter Sparkes
Barcoo	Labor	Frank Bulcock	Robert McGeoch
Baroona	Labor	William Power		Cecil Noble
Bowen Electoral district of Bowen Bowen was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland from 1873 to 1950 and at various times until 1992....	Labor	Ernest Riordan			Fred Paterson Fred Paterson Frederick Woolnough Paterson was an Australian politician, activist, unionist and lawyer. He was the only member of a Communist Party ever to be elected to a parliament anywhere in the Commonwealth of Australia.... (Communist Communist Party of Australia The Communist Party of Australia was founded in 1920 and dissolved in 1991; it was succeeded by the Socialist Party of Australia, which then renamed itself, becoming the current Communist Party of Australia. The CPA achieved its greatest political strength in the 1940s and faced an attempted... )
Bremer	Labor	Frank Cooper				Geordie Burns (Ind. Soc.)
Brisbane Electoral district of Brisbane (Queensland) Brisbane was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland from 1912 to 1977.Based in inner central Brisbane, north of the Brisbane River, it was first created as a single member constituency for the 1912 state election, largely replacing the dual member...	Labor	John Henry Mann		Neville Fogerty	Claude Jones (Communist Communist Party of Australia The Communist Party of Australia was founded in 1920 and dissolved in 1991; it was succeeded by the Socialist Party of Australia, which then renamed itself, becoming the current Communist Party of Australia. The CPA achieved its greatest political strength in the 1940s and faced an attempted... )
Bulimba Electoral district of Bulimba -External links:*...	Labor	George Marriott		Daniel Miller
Bundaberg Electoral district of Bundaberg The division of Bundaberg is an electoral district of the Queensland Legislative Assembly in central Queensland, Australia.It covers the city of Bundaberg, as well as the immediate surrounding area, hence its name....	Labor	Bernard McLean				Frank Barnes (Ind. Labor)
Buranda	Labor	Edward Hanson Edward Hanson Edward William Hanson was a United States Navy Rear admiral and the 28th Governor of American Samoa from June 26, 1938 to July 30, 1940. Hanson was born and lived in Alexandria, Minnesota. Hanson served at the Naval War College. He was the commanding officer of the USS Indianapolis ...		Hector Annat
Cairns Electoral district of Cairns The electoral district of Cairns is an electoral district in the Queensland Legislative Assembly in the state of Queensland, Australia.The division encompasses the central business district and inner-suburbs of Cairns, in Far North Queensland...	Labor	John O'Keefe John O'Keefe (Australian politician) John O'Keefe was an Australian politician. He was a Labor member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly, representing Chillagoe from 1926 to 1929 and Cairns from 1930 to 1942....	William Griffen			Alan Tucker
Carnarvon Electoral district of Carnarvon Carnarvon was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland that existed from 1873 to 1992.The district took in rural areas in southern Queensland, including the towns of Stanthorpe and Goondiwindi....	Labor	Paul Hilton
Carpentaria	Labor	Alfred Smith				James Boyd
Charters Towers Electoral district of Charters Towers Charters Towers was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland. It has had three incarnations, most recently being created as part of a redistribution in 1991 and lasting until 2008....	Labor	Arthur Jones			Syd Williams (Protestant Labor)
Cook Electoral district of Cook The electoral division of Cook is an electoral district in Queensland, Australia.Cook covers the vast Cape York Peninsula north of Cairns, including the resort town of Port Douglas and the Torres Strait Islands...	Labor	Harold Collins Harold Collins (politician) Harold Henry Collins was an Australian politician. He was the Labor member for Cook from 1935 to 1950 and for Tablelands from 1950 to 1957, when he defected to the breakaway Queensland Labor Party.-References:...	James McDonald
Cooroora	Country		Harry Walker
Cunningham Electoral district of Cunningham Cunningham was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland from 1888 to 2009.Prior to its abolition, the district occupied an area of the Darling Downs, south and west of Toowoomba. Historically it was centred on the town of Clifton. The eastern portion...	Country	John Hilton	Herbert Castles			William Deacon (Ind. Country)
Dalby Electoral district of Dalby Dalby was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland. It existed from 1873 to 1949 and centred on the town of Dalby.-Members for Dalby:...	Labor	Aubrey Slessar	Godfrey Morgan
East Toowoomba Electoral district of East Toowoomba The Electoral District of East Toowoomba was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland. It was created in 1912 when the old seat of Drayton & Toowoomba split into East Toowoomba, Toowoomba and Drayton...	Labor	James Kane James Kane James David Kane was an Australian politician. He was the Labor member for East Toowoomba in the Queensland Legislative Assembly from 1935 to 1938....	Herbert Yeates Herbert Yeates Herbert Yeates was an Australian politician. He was the Country Party member for East Toowoomba in the Queensland Legislative Assembly from 1938 to 1945....
Enoggera	Labor	George Taylor		Ernest Lanham		Mabel Matyear
Fassifern	Country	Peter Nelson	Adolf Muller
Fitzroy	Labor	James Clark
Fortitude Valley	Labor	Samuel Brassington Samuel Brassington Samuel John Brassington was an Australian politician. He was a Labor member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly, serving as the member for Balonne from 1927 to 1932 and for Fortitude Valley from 1933 to 1950. He served as Speaker of the Queensland Legislative Assembly from 1944 to...		Ernest Downey
Gregory Electoral district of Gregory The district of Gregory is a Queensland Legislative Assembly electoral district in Queensland, Australia.-Members for Gregory:-Election results:-External links:*...	Independent	George Devries				Charles Brown Charles Brown (Australian politician) Charles Victor Watson Brown was an Australian politician. He was the Independent member for Gregory in the Queensland Legislative Assembly from 1939 to 1941....
Gympie Electoral district of Gympie The district of Gympie is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland The electorate is centred on the city of Gympie and stretches north to Rainbow Beach and as far south to Pomona....	Labor	Thomas Dunstan	William Kidd, Sr.	Ronald Witham
Hamilton Electoral district of Hamilton (Queensland) Hamilton was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland from 1932 to 1950.The district was based in the inner northeastern suburbs of Brisbane, and included the suburbs of Albion, Ascot, Eagle Farm, Hamilton and Hendra. It was a safe seat for the...	UAP			Hugh Russell		Arthur Bruce Pie Arthur Bruce Pie Arthur Bruce Pie was an Australian politician who served in the Queensland Legislative Assembly.He was born in Coburg, Victoria and attended Caulfield Grammar School... (Ind. Democrat)
Herbert	Labor	Stephen Theodore	Alfred Moule			Jack Wells (Ind. Soc.)
Ipswich Electoral district of Ipswich The district of Ipswich is a Queensland Legislative Assembly electoral district on the Brisbane River, west of Brisbane in the Australian state of Queensland...	Labor	David Gledson	John Cantwell			Merv Welsby (Ind. Soc.)
Isis	Country	William Ivey	William Brand William Brand Sir William Alfred Brand, CBE was an Australian politician. Born in Childers, Queensland, he was educated at state schools before becoming a sugarcane grower. He was president of the Australian Sugar Growers Association...
Ithaca	Labor	Ned Hanlon				Alexander Jolly Ted Bacon (Ind. Soc.)
Kelvin Grove	Independent	John Albert Turner				George Morris Richard Hill (Ind. UAP)
Kennedy	Labor	Cecil Jesson	Aubrey Jurd		Florence Milburn (Communist Communist Party of Australia The Communist Party of Australia was founded in 1920 and dissolved in 1991; it was succeeded by the Socialist Party of Australia, which then renamed itself, becoming the current Communist Party of Australia. The CPA achieved its greatest political strength in the 1940s and faced an attempted... )
Keppel Electoral district of Keppel The district of Keppel is an electoral district in the state of Queensland, Australia.The electoral district encompasses the central Queensland coast from the mouth of the Fitzroy River in the south to Shoalwater Bay to the north...	Country	Walter Ingram	David Daniel			Ezra Shorley
Kurilpa Electoral district of Kurilpa Kurilpa was a Legislative Assembly electorate in the state of Queensland from 1912 to 1986. It was named for the Kurilpa Peninsula on the Brisbane River...	Labor	Patrick Copley		Norman Brandon		Ruby McGrorty (Ind. Soc.)
Logan Electoral district of Logan The district of Logan is an electoral division in southern Queensland, Australia.Logan encompasses urban and semi-rural environments on the southern outskirts of the Brisbane metropolitan area...	Labor	John Brown		Albert Pro-Copis
Mackay Electoral district of Mackay The district of Mackay is a Queensland Legislative Assembly electoral district in North Queensland, Australia, encompassing the inner suburbs of the city of Mackay...	Labor	William Forgan Smith William Forgan Smith William Forgan Smith , generally known as Forgan Smith, was Premier of the Australian state of Queensland from 1932 to 1942. He came to dominate politics in the state during the 1930s, and his populism, firm leadership, defence of states' rights and interest in state development make him something...				John Mulherin
Maranoa	Labor	Charles Conroy	Leslie Brown
Maree	Labor	William King		Louis Luckins
Maryborough Electoral district of Maryborough The district of Maryborough is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland.The district is centred on the regional city of Maryborough and takes in other surrounding communities....	Labor	David Farrell			Robert McDowell (Protestant Labor)
Merthyr Electoral district of Merthyr Merthyr was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland from 1912 to 1992.First created for the 1912 state election, the district was based in inner Brisbane centred on the suburb of New Farm, covering areas that previously belonged to the district of...	Labor	Bill Moore		Samuel Glassey
Mirani Electoral district of Mirani The district of Mirani is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland.It covers much of the Queensland coast between the cities of Rockhampton and Mackay, as well as the hinterland west of Mackay. Towns include St Lawrence, Carmila, Sarina, and Eungella...	Labor	Ted Walsh	Alexander Kippen
Mundingburra Electoral district of Mundingburra The district of Mundingburra is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland.- Overview :The seat is one of four within the Townsville urban area in North Queensland. Significant utilities within the Mundingburra electorate are the Townsville Hospital,...	Labor	John Dash			Lionel Parsons (Protestant Labor)	Doug Olive (Ind. Soc.)
Murrumba Electoral district of Murrumba The district of Murrumba is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland.The district is based in the outer northern suburbs of Brisbane. It includes the suburbs of Deception Bay, Kippa-Ring, Murrumba Downs and Rothwell...	Country	George Watson	Frank Nicklin Frank Nicklin Sir George Francis Reuben Nicklin, KCMG, MM was Premier of the Australian state of Queensland from 1957 to 1968, and the first Country Party Premier since 1932.-Early life and career:...
Nanango Electoral district of Nanango The district of Nanango is an electoral division in the state of Queensland, Australia.Nanango was the original seat of Sir Joh-Bjelke Petersen . In the 2006 legislative election, incumbent member Dorothy Pratt beat off a strong challenge by the late Bjelke-Petersen's son John to retain the seat...	Country	Cecil Tracey	James Edwards			George Anderson
Normanby	Labor	Tom Foley				George Hamilton
Nundah Electoral district of Nundah Nundah was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland from 1888 to 1992.The district was based in the northern suburbs of Brisbane. At the time of its abolition it included the suburbs of Nundah, Eagle Farm, Hendra and Toombul.-Members for Nundah:...	Labor	John Hayes		William Cook
Oxley	UAP	Henry Herbert		Thomas Nimmo
Port Curtis Electoral district of Port Curtis Port Curtis was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland from 1860 to 1992.The district was centred on the regional city of Gladstone. In 1992, it was renamed Gladstone.-Members for Port Curtis:...	Labor	Thomas Williams	Geoffrey Nichols
Rockhampton Electoral district of Rockhampton The district of Rockhampton is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland.Wedged between the electoral districts of Keppel to the east and Mirani to the west, Rockhampton encompasses the bulk of the regional city of Rockhampton and many of its outlying...	Labor	James Larcombe James Larcombe James Larcombe was a labor politician from Queensland, Australia.-Biography:James Larcombe was born in Rockhampton, Queensland on 25 April 1884. His father, also named James Larcombe, was a butcher, and his mother was Mary Lee. As a young man, he worked as a butcher with his father and was...				Robert Nicholls (Ind. Soc.)
Sandgate Electoral district of Sandgate The district of Sandgate is an electoral division in the state of Queensland, Australia.It is located in the northern suburbs of Brisbane, covering Sandgate, Shorncliffe, Deagon, Brighton, Bracken Ridge, Fitzgibbon, and Taigum...	Labor	Ronald Hislop	Eric Decker	James Fry
South Brisbane Electoral district of South Brisbane The district of South Brisbane is an electoral district of the Queensland Legislative Assembly. The electorate encompasses suburbs in Brisbane's inner-south, stretching from East Brisbane to West End, and south to Fairfield...	Labor	Vince Gair Vince Gair Vincent Clare "Vince" Gair was an Australian politician. He served as Premier of Queensland from 1952 until 1957, when his stormy relations with the trade union movement saw him expelled from the Australian Labor Party. He was elected to the Australian Senate and led the Democratic Labor Party...		Daniel Rowley
Stanley	Country	Jim Hogan	Duncan MacDonald
The Tableland	Labor	Henry Bruce	Robert Griffiths			Jim Slater (Ind. Soc.)
Toowong	UAP	Tom Laws		Harry Massey
Toowoomba Electoral district of Toowoomba The Electoral District of Toowoomba was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland. It was created in 1912 when the old seat of Drayton & Toowoomba split into Toowoomba, East Toowoomba and Drayton...	Labor	John Duggan	John Leahy
Townsville Electoral district of Townsville The district of Townsville is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland. The seat is one of four within the Townsville urban area in North Queensland, and covers the Eastern and Northern suburbs of the City of Townsville as well as Magnetic Island and...	Labor	George Keyatta
Warrego Electoral district of Warrego The district of Warrego is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland.The electorate lies in the extreme southwest of Queensland, running along the western part of the border with New South Wales...	Labor	Randolph Bedford Randolph Bedford Randolph Bedford was an Australian poet, novelist, short story writer and Queensland state politician.-Early life:...
Warwick Electoral district of Warwick Warwick was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland from 1860 to 2001. It centred on the town of Warwick....	Labor	John Healy	Richard Matthews
West Moreton Electoral district of West Moreton (Queensland) West Moreton was the name of two incarnations of an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland.The original district, named for the region it covered, took in all of the Brisbane River catchment area as well as Ipswich and Laidley, bordering New South Wales...	Country	Fred Howman	Ted Maher
Wide Bay	Country	Thomas Thorpe	Ernest Clayton
Windsor Electoral district of Windsor (Queensland) Windsor was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland from 1912 to 1992.First created for the 1912 state election, the district was based in the northern suburbs of Brisbane, taking in areas north of Breakfast Creek and south of Kedron Brook...	Labor	Herbert Williams		Neil O'Sullivan		Harry Moorhouse (Ind. Democrat)
Wynnum Electoral district of Wynnum Wynnum was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland from 1923 to 1986.The district was based in the eastern suburbs of Brisbane and named for the suburb of Wynnum.-Members for Wynnum:...	UAP	William Laracy		William Dart		Joseph Bailes (Ind. Soc.)

By-elections

Labor

Candidates

See also