Candidates of the 1925 Australian federal election
# Candidates of the 1925 Australian federal election

This article provides information on candidates who stood for the 1925 Australian federal election. The election was held on 14 November 1925.

## By-elections, appointments and defections

### By-elections and appointments

* On 12 September 1923, John Hayes (Nationalist) was appointed as a Tasmanian Senator to succeed Thomas Bakhap (Nationalist).
* On 17 October 1923, Walter Massy-Greene (Nationalist) was appointed as a New South Wales Senator to succeed Edward Millen (Nationalist).
* On 22 July 1924, Joseph Hannan (Labor) was appointed as a Victorian Senator to succeed Stephen Barker (Labor).
* On 10 November 1924, Jack Power (Labor) appointed as a New South Wales Senator to succeed Allan McDougall (Labor).
* On 1 April 1925, William Gibbs (Labor) was appointed as a New South Wales Senator succeed Jack Power (Labor).
* On 29 July 1925, Charles Grant (Nationalist) was appointed as a Tasmanian Senator to succeed George Foster (Nationalist).
* On 25 August 1925, William Plain (Nationalist) was appointed as a Victorian Senator to succeed Edward Russell (Nationalist).
* On 13 November 1925, the day before the election, Charles McDonald (Labor, Kennedy) died, leaving his seat to be won unopposed by the Nationalist candidate.
* Subsequent to the election, but prior to the new Senate taking its place:
   * On 18 December 1925, Sir Henry Barwell (Nationalist) was appointed as a South Australian Senator to replace James O'Loghlin (Labor).
   * On 24 February 1926, Alexander McLachlan (Nationalist was appointed as a South Australian Senator to replace Benjamin Benny (Nationalist).

### Defections

* After Prime Minister Billy Hughes's resignation in 1923, the five Liberal Party members – Malcolm Cameron (Barker), Jack Duncan-Hughes (Boothby), Richard Foster (Wakefield), John Latham (Kooyong) and William Watt (Balaclava) – rejoined the Nationalist Party.
* In 1925, Country MP Percy Stewart (Wimmera) resigned from the party. He contested his seat as an Independent Country candidate.

## Retiring Members and Senators

### Labor

* Senator William Gibbs (NSW)

### Nationalist

* Fred Bamford MP (Herbert, Qld)
* Frederick Francis MP (Henty, Vic)
* Senator Benjamin Benny (SA) (see also above)
* Senator Edmund Drake-Brockman (WA)

### Country

* Joshua Whitsitt MP (Darwin, Tas)

## 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 | Frederick McDonald | Thomas Ley (Nat) | |
| Calare | Nationalist | William Webster | Sir Neville Howse (Nat) | William Southwick (Ind) |
| Cook | Labor | Edward Riley | Arthur Philip (Nat) | |
| Cowper | Country | Lockhart Easton | Earle Page (CP) | |
| Dalley | Labor | William Mahony | James Thomson (Nat) | |
| Darling | Labor | Arthur Blakeley | John Dowling (Nat) | |
| East Sydney | Labor | John West | Richard Orchard (Nat) | |
| Eden-Monaro | Nationalist | Charles Morgan | Sir Austin Chapman (Nat) | |
| Gwydir | Labor | Lou Cunningham | Aubrey Abbott* (CP) Joseph McGowan (Nat) | |
| Hume | Labor | Parker Moloney | Angus Campbell (Nat) Victor Miers (CP) | |
| Hunter | Labor | Matthew Charlton | Alfred Horsfall (Nat) | |
| Lang | Nationalist | George Smith | Sir Elliot Johnson (Nat) | |
| Macquarie | Nationalist | Ben Chifley | Arthur Manning (Nat) | |
| Martin | Nationalist | Henry McDicken | Herbert Pratten (Nat) | |
| New England | Country | John Heiss | Victor Thompson (CP) | |
| Newcastle | Labor | David Watkins | George Waller (Nat) | |
| North Sydney | Nationalist | Joe Lamaro | Billy Hughes (Nat) | |
| Parkes | Nationalist | William Dunn | Charles Marr (Nat) | |
| Parramatta | Nationalist | James Stone | Eric Bowden (Nat) | |
| Reid | Labor | Percy Coleman | Percy Shortland (Nat) | |
| Richmond | Country | Harry Green | Roland Green* (CP) Joseph Greene (Nat) John Williams (CP) | |
| Riverina | Country | James Hoad | William Killen (CP) | |
| Robertson | Nationalist | Gordon Cross | Sydney Gardner (Nat) | |
| South Sydney | Labor | Edward Riley | George Baker (Nat) | |
| Warringah | Nationalist | Thomas Conway | Sir Granville Ryrie (Nat) | |
| Wentworth | Nationalist | William Crick | Walter Marks (Nat) | |
| Werriwa | Labor | Bert Lazzarini | Sir Charles Rosenthal (Nat) | |
| West Sydney | Labor | William Lambert | Lindsay Thompson (Nat) | |

### Northern Territory

| Electorate | Held by | Labor candidate | Nationalist candidate |
| - | - | - | - |
| Northern Territory | Labor | Harold Nelson | Charles Story |

### Queensland

| Electorate | Held by | Labor candidate | Coalition candidate | Other candidates |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| Brisbane | Nationalist | John Fihelly | Donald Cameron (Nat) | Herbert Collie (Ind Lab) |
| Capricornia | Labor | Frank Forde | William Doherty (CP) | |
| Darling Downs | Nationalist | Duncan McInnes | Sir Littleton Groom (Nat) | |
| Herbert | Nationalist | Ted Theodore | Lewis Nott (Nat) | |
| Kennedy | Labor | | Grosvenor Francis (Nat) | |
| Lilley | Nationalist | John Mattingley | George Mackay (Nat) | |
| Maranoa | Country | Samuel Brassington | James Hunter (CP) | |
| Moreton | Nationalist | Horace Lee | Josiah Francis (Nat) | |
| Oxley | Nationalist | James Sharpe | James Bayley (Nat) | |
| Wide Bay | Nationalist | Andrew Thompson | Edward Corser (Nat) | |

### South Australia

| Electorate | Held by | Labor candidate | Nationalist candidate |
| - | - | - | - |
| Adelaide | Labor | George Edwin Yates | George McLeay |
| Angas | Labor | Moses Gabb | Walter Parsons |
| Barker | Liberal | Alwyn Roberts | Malcolm Cameron |
| Boothby | Liberal | Harry Kneebone | Jack Duncan-Hughes |
| Grey | Labor | Andrew Lacey | John Lyons |
| Hindmarsh | Labor | Norman Makin | John Verran |
| Wakefield | Liberal | Even George | Richard Foster |

### Tasmania

| Electorate | Held by | Labor candidate | Nationalist candidate | Country candidate |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| Bass | Nationalist | Harold Holmes John Swain | Syd Jackson | |
| Darwin | Country | Henry Lane | George Bell* Hubert Nichols | |
| Denison | Labor | David O'Keefe | Sir John Gellibrand | |
| Franklin | Nationalist | Eric Ogilvie Douglas Thompson | William McWilliams Alfred Seabrook* | |
| Wilmot | Country | Jens Jensen | Percy Best Atherfield Newman | Llewellyn Atkinson |

### Victoria

| Electorate | Held by | Labor candidate | Coalition candidate | Other candidates |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| Balaclava | Liberal | John McKellar | William Watt (Nat) | |
| Ballaarat | Labor | Charles McGrath | Thomas Ryan (Nat) | |
| Batman | Labor | Frank Brennan | Samuel Dennis (Nat) | |
| Bendigo | Nationalist | Thomas Jude | Geoffry Hurry (Nat) | |
| Bourke | Labor | Frank Anstey | Edward Price (Nat) | |
| Corangamite | Country | William Nicol | William Gibson (CP) | |
| Corio | Nationalist | Peter Randles | John Lister (Nat) | |
| Echuca | Country | Patrick O'Hanlon | William Hill (CP) | |
| Fawkner | Nationalist | Alfred Foster | George Maxwell (Nat) | |
| Flinders | Nationalist | Roy Beardsworth | Stanley Bruce (Nat) | |
| Gippsland | Country | James Bermingham | Thomas Paterson (CP) | George Wise (Ind Nat) |
| Henty | Nationalist | Edward Stewart | Henry Gullett (Nat) | Donald Mackinnon (Ind Nat) |
| Indi | Country | David Black | Robert Cook (CP) | |
| Kooyong | Liberal | Lionel Batten | John Latham (Nat) | |
| Maribyrnong | Labor | James Fenton | Thomas White (Nat) | |
| Melbourne | Labor | William Maloney | William Hendry (Nat) | |
| Melbourne Ports | Labor | James Mathews | Frank Wilcher (Nat) | |
| Wannon | Labor | John McNeill | David Anderson (CP) Arthur Rodgers* (Nat) | |
| Wimmera | Country | | | Lucas de Garis (Ind) Percy Stewart* (Ind CP) |
| Yarra | Labor | James Scullin | Marcus Towler (Nat) | |

### Western Australia

| Electorate | Held by | Labor candidate | Coalition candidate | Independent candidate(s) |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| Forrest | Country | Thomas Lowry | John Prowse (CP) | |
| Fremantle | Independent | John Curtin | | William Watson |
| Kalgoorlie | Labor | Albert Green | John Mullany (Nat) | |
| Perth | Nationalist | Dick Lane | Edward Mann (Nat) | |
| Swan | Country | Ben Davies | Henry Gregory (CP) | |

## Senate

Sitting Senators are shown in bold text. Tickets that elected at least one Senator are highlighted in the relevant colour. Successful candidates are identified by an asterisk (*).

### New South Wales

Five seats were up for election. Two of these were for short-term vacancies: one caused by Nationalist Senator Edward Millen's death, which had been filled in the interim by Nationalist Walter Massy-Greene; and the other caused by Labor Senator Allan McDougall's death, which had been filled first by Jack Power and then by William Gibbs, both members of the Labor Party. The Labor Party was defending two seats. The Nationalist Party was defending three seats. Labor Senator John Grant was not up for re-election.

| Labor candidates | Coalition candidates |
| - | - |
| John Dooley James Dunn John Eldridge Albert Gardiner Donald Grant | Percy Abbott* (CP) Charles Cox* (Nat) Walter Duncan* (Nat) Walter Massy-Greene* (Nat) Josiah Thomas* (Nat) |

### Queensland

Three seats were up for election. The Nationalist Party was defending three seats. Nationalist Senators Thomas Crawford, Harry Foll and Matthew Reid were not up for re-election.

| Labor candidates | Nationalist candidates |
| - | - |
| Harald Jensen Jim Riordan Harry Turley | Thomas Givens* Sir William Glasgow* William Thompson* |

### South Australia

Three seats were up for election. The Nationalist Party was defending three seats. Labor Senators Bert Hoare, Charles McHugh and James O'Loghlin were not up for re-election.

| Labor candidates | Coalition candidates |
| - | - |
| John Daly Herbert George Frank Lundie | John Chapman* (CP) Alexander McLachlan* (Nat) John Newland* (Nat) Victor Wilson (Nat) |

### Tasmania

Four seats were up for election. One of these was a short-term vacancy caused by Nationalist Senator Thomas Bakhap's death; this had been filled in the interim by Nationalist John Hayes. The Nationalist Party was defending four seats. Labor Senator James Ogden and Nationalist Senator Herbert Hays were not up for re-election.

| Labor candidates | Nationalist candidates |
| - | - |
| Richard Crouch Alfred Higgins William Lloyd James McDonald Thomas Wilson | John Earle Charles Grant John Hayes* John Millen* John Ockerby Herbert Payne* Burford Sampson* |

### Victoria

Four seats were up for election. One of these was a short-term vacancy caused by Labor Senator Stephen Barker's death; this had been filled in the interim by Labor's Joseph Hannan. The Nationalist Party was defending three seats. The Labor Party was defending one seat. Labor Senators John Barnes and Edward Findley were not up for re-election.

| Labor candidates | Coalition candidates |
| - | - |
| Albert Blakey Joseph Hannan Jack Holloway Richard Keane | David Andrew* (CP) Harold Elliott* (Nat) James Guthrie* (Nat) William Plain* (Nat) |

### Western Australia

Three seats were up for election. The Nationalist Party was defending three seats. Labor Senators Charles Graham and Ted Needham and Nationalist Senator Walter Kingsmill were not up for re-election.

| Labor candidates | Coalition candidates | Independent candidates |
| - | - | - |
| Ernest Barker Andrew Clementson James Kenneally | William Carroll* (CP) Patrick Lynch* (Nat) George Pearce* (Nat) | James Crawford |
