Candidates of the 1929 Australian federal election

This article provides information on candidates who stood for the 1929 Australian federal election. The election was held on 12 October 1929. There was no election for the Senate.

By-elections, appointments and defections

By-elections and appointments

On 3 August 1929, Thomas White (Nationalist) was elected to succeed William Watt (Nationalist) as the member for Balaclava.

Defections

In 1929, Nationalist MPs Billy Hughes (North Sydney), Edward Mann (Perth), Walter Marks (Wentworth) and George Maxwell (Fawkner) crossed the floor to bring down the Bruce government. All were expelled from the Nationalist Party. The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Nationalist MP Sir Littleton Groom (Darling Downs), refused to use his casting vote to save the Government and was also expelled. All five contested the election as independents.

Retiring Members

No members retired in 1929.

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	Other candidates

Barton	Labor	James Tully	William Myhill (Nat)
Calare	Nationalist	George Gibbons	Sir Neville Howse (Nat)
Cook	Labor	Edward Riley	William Pickup (Nat)
Cowper	Country		Earle Page (CP)
Dalley	Labor	Ted Theodore	Thomas Morrow (Nat)
Darling	Labor	Arthur Blakeley	Brian Doe (Nat)
East Sydney	Labor	John West	Hyman Diamond (Nat)
Eden-Monaro	Nationalist	John Cusack	John Perkins (Nat)
Gwydir	Country	Lou Cunningham	Aubrey Abbott (CP)
Hume	Labor	Parker Moloney	Thomas Fitzpatrick (CP)
Hunter	Labor	Rowley James
Lang	Labor	William Long	Dick Dein (Nat)
Macquarie	Labor	Ben Chifley	Charles Dash (Nat)
Martin	Nationalist	John Eldridge	Graham Pratten (Nat)	Edward Beeby (APP)
New England	Country	Thomas Wilson	Victor Thompson (CP)
Newcastle	Labor	David Watkins
North Sydney	Nationalist		Lewis Nott (Nat)	Clifford Banks (Ind Lab) Billy Hughes* (Ind Nat) Ernie Judd (Soc Lab)
Parkes	Nationalist	Edward McTiernan	Charles Marr (Nat)
Parramatta	Nationalist	Albert Rowe	Eric Bowden (Nat)
Reid	Labor	Percy Coleman	Ernest Carr (Nat)
Richmond	Country		Robert Gibson (CP) Roland Green* (CP)
Riverina	Country	William Nulty	William Killen* (CP) Horace Nock (CP)
Robertson	Nationalist	Michael Fitzgerald	Sydney Gardner (Nat)
South Sydney	Labor	Edward Riley	William Adkins (Nat)
Warringah	Nationalist		Archdale Parkhill (Nat)	Richard Windeyer (Ind PP)
Wentworth	Nationalist		Arthur Manning (Nat)	Walter Marks* (Ind Nat)
Werriwa	Labor	Bert Lazzarini	Bernard Grogan (Nat)
West Sydney	Labor	Jack Beasley	Lindsay Thompson (Nat)

Northern Territory

Electorate	Held by	Labor candidate

Northern Territory	Labor	Harold Nelson

Queensland

Electorate	Held by	Labor candidate	Coalition candidate	Other candidates

Brisbane	Nationalist	Myles Ferricks	Donald Cameron (Nat)
Capricornia	Labor	Frank Forde	Robert Staines (Nat)
Darling Downs	Nationalist	Evan Llewelyn	Arthur Morgan (Nat)	Sir Littleton Groom (Ind Nat)
Herbert	Labor	George Martens	William Amiet (Nat)
Kennedy	Nationalist	Darby Riordan	Grosvenor Francis (Nat)
Lilley	Nationalist		George Mackay (Nat)	Frederick O'Keefe (Ind)
Maranoa	Country	Robert Munro	James Hunter (CP)
Moreton	Nationalist	Robert Taylor	Josiah Francis (Nat)
Oxley	Nationalist	Francis Baker	James Bayley (Nat)
Wide Bay	Country	John O'Keefe	Bernard Corser (CP)

South Australia

Electorate	Held by	Labor candidate	Coalition candidate

Adelaide	Labor	George Edwin Yates	Arthur Wreford (Nat)
Angas	Nationalist	Moses Gabb	Walter Parsons (Nat)
Barker	Nationalist	Frank Nieass	Malcolm Cameron (Nat)
Boothby	Labor	John Price	Bill McCann (Nat)
Grey	Labor	Andrew Lacey	Oliver Badman (CP)
Hindmarsh	Labor	Norman Makin
Wakefield	Country	Sydney McHugh	Maurice Collins (CP) Charles Hawker* (Nat)

Tasmania

Electorate	Held by	Labor candidate	Nationalist candidate	Independent candidate(s)

Bass	Nationalist	Allan Guy	Syd Jackson
Darwin	Nationalist	Thomas d'Alton Henry Lane	George Bell
Denison	Labor	Charles Culley	Hubert Brettingham-Moore John Gage Sir John Gellibrand Horace Walch	David Blanchard
Franklin	Independent		Alfred Seabrook	William McWilliams
Wilmot	Nationalist	Joseph Lyons	Llewellyn Atkinson

Victoria

Electorate	Held by	Labor candidate	Coalition candidate	Other candidates

Balaclava	Nationalist	Don Cameron	Thomas White (Nat)
Ballaarat	Labor	Charles McGrath	Fred Edmunds (Nat)
Batman	Labor	Frank Brennan	Cecil Keeley (Nat)
Bendigo	Nationalist	Richard Keane	Geoffry Hurry (Nat)
Bourke	Labor	Frank Anstey	Lionel Hahn (Nat)
Corangamite	Country	Richard Crouch	William Gibson (CP)
Corio	Nationalist	Arthur Lewis	John Lister (Nat)
Echuca	Country	Edward Hill	William Hill (CP)
Fawkner	Nationalist		Sir Arthur Robinson (Nat)	George Maxwell* (Ind Nat) James Ronald (Ind)
Flinders	Nationalist	Jack Holloway	Stanley Bruce (Nat)	Joseph Burch (Ind Lib)
Gippsland	Country	Michael Buckley	Thomas Paterson (CP)
Henty	Nationalist	Billy Duggan	Henry Gullett (Nat)	William Bolton (Ind Nat)
Indi	Labor	Paul Jones	Robert Cook (CP) Leslie Sambell (CP) Arthur Walter (CP)
Kooyong	Nationalist	Albert Langker	John Latham (Nat)
Maribyrnong	Labor	James Fenton	Percy Anderson (Nat)
Melbourne	Labor	William Maloney
Melbourne Ports	Labor	James Mathews
Wannon	Nationalist	John McNeill	Arthur Rodgers (Nat)
Wimmera	CPP		John Harris (CP)	Percy Stewart (CPP)
Yarra	Labor	James Scullin

Western Australia

Electorate	Held by	Labor candidate	Coalition candidate	Independent candidate(s)

Forrest	Country		John Prowse (CP)
Fremantle	Labor	John Curtin	Keith Watson (Nat)
Kalgoorlie	Labor	Albert Green	William Greenard (Nat) William Pickering (CP)
Perth	Nationalist	Ted Needham	Walter Nairn (Nat)	John McCoo (Ind) Edward Mann (Ind Nat)
Swan	Country		Henry Gregory (CP)

References

Adam Carr's Election Archive - House of Representatives 1929