Candidates of the Queensland state election, 1920

This is a list of candidates who stood for the 1920 Queensland state election. The election was held on 9 October 1920.

The main parties in the election were the Labor Party, led by Premier Ted Theodore, the Nationalist Party led by Charles Taylor, and the newly formed Country Party, led by William Vowles.

By-elections

• On 20 December 1919, Frank Bulcock (Labor) was elected to succeed T. J. Ryan (Labor), who had resigned on 14 October 1919, as the member for Barcoo.
• On 20 December 1919, Tom Foley (Labor) was elected to succeed Herbert Hardacre (Labor), who had resigned on 14 October 1919, as the member for Leichhardt.
• On 20 December 1919, Thomas Spencer (Nationalist) was elected to succeed John McEwan Hunter (Labor), who had died on 22 October 1919, as the member for Maranoa.
• On 10 April 1920, Percy Pease (Labor) was elected to succeed William Lennon (Labor), who had resigned on 16 January 1920, as the member for Herbert.

Retiring Members

Labor

• Thomas Foley (Mundingburra)
• Edgar Free (South Brisbane)

Nationalist

• Donald Gunn (Carnarvon)
• Edward Macartney (Toowong)
• Henry Plantagenet Somerset (Stanley)

Other

• Francis Grayson (Cunningham)

Candidates

Sitting members at the time of the election are shown in bold text.

Electorate	Held by	Labor candidate	Nationalist candidate	Country candidate	Other party candidate(s)	Independent candidate(s)
Albert	Country	Richard Holden		John Appel
Aubigny	Country	William Brady		Arthur Moore
Balonne	Labor	Edward Land		Richard Nantes
Barcoo	Labor	Frank Bulcock		James Cullen (Northern Country)
Bowen	Labor	Charles Collins			John Leahy (Northern Country)
Bremer	Labor	Frank Cooper	Alfred Tully Stephenson		Albert Welsby (Industrialist)
Brisbane	Labor	Mick Kirwan	Col. Patrick Currie*
Bulimba	Nationalist	George Marriott	Walter Barnes
Bundaberg	Labor	George Barber		John Forgan
Buranda	Labor	John Huxham	Alfred Faulkner
Burke	Labor	Darby Riordan			John Williamson (Northern Country)
Burnett	Country	Francis Hill		Bernard Corser
Burrum	Labor	Albert Whitford		William Brand
Cairns	Labor	William McCormack			Charles Hives (Northern Country)
Carnarvon	Nationalist	Alfred Jones		Edward Costello
Charters Towers	Labor	William Wellington			David Guthrie (Northern Country)
Chillagoe	Labor	Ted Theodore			John George Egerton (Northern Country)
Cook	Labor	Harry Ryan			Frederick Craig (Northern Country)
Cooroora	Country			Harry Walker
Cunningham	Independent			William Deacon
Dalby	Country	James Connolly		William Vowles
Drayton	Country	Lister Hopkins		William Bebbington
Eacham	Labor	William Gillies				James McCarthy (Ind. Country)
East Toowoomba	Nationalist	John Mattingley	Robert Roberts
Enoggera	Nationalist	William Lloyd	Jim Kerr
Fassifern	Nationalist	Jack Quinlan	Ernest Bell
Fitzroy	Labor	Harry Hartley	Frederick Lodge
Flinders	Labor	John Mullan			Eric Huntley (Northern Country)
Fortitude Valley	Labor	Thomas Wilson			James Patrick Forde (National Labor)
Gregory	Labor	George Pollock			Robert Nowland (Northern Country)
Gympie	Labor	Thomas Dunstan	James MacDonnell
Herbert	Labor	Percy Pease			Hedley Gelston (Northern Country)
Ipswich	Labor	David Gledson	James Bottomley
Ithaca	Labor	John Gilday			John Morton (National Labor)
Kennedy	Labor	James O'Sullivan			John Jones (Northern Country)
Keppel	Labor	James Larcombe	Robert Hartley
Kurilpa	Nationalist	John Pringle	James Fry
Leichhardt	Labor	Tom Foley		Charles Kingston
Lockyer	Labor	Robert Butler		George Logan
Logan	Country	Richard Kidston Brown	Reginald King	Alfred James
Mackay	Labor	William Forgan Smith			James McLaren (Northern Country)	Charles Clarke (Ind. Country)
Maranoa	Country	Charles Conroy		Thomas Spencer
Maree	Labor	William Bertram	Field Evans Smith*
Maryborough	Labor	David Weir	James Edward Hatton
Merthyr	Labor	Peter McLachlan	Peter MacGregor
Mirani	Country	Maurice Hynes			Edward Swayne (Northern Country)
Mitchell	Labor	John Payne
Mount Morgan	Labor	James Stopford	Frederick McCarthy
Mundingburra	Labor	John Dash			John Edward Clegg (Northern Country)
Murilla	Country	Jack MacGinley		Godfrey Morgan
Murrumba	Country	John Aloysius Forde	George Pritchard	Richard Warren
Musgrave	Labor	Thomas Armfield		Henry Cattermull
Nanango	Country	Robert Wallace		Robert Hodge		James Edwards
Normanby	Labor	Jens Peterson		Alexander Cameron
Nundah	Nationalist	George Robbins	Hubert Sizer
Oxley	Nationalist	John Reid	Cecil Elphinstone
Paddington	Labor	John Fihelly			Norm McFadden (National Labor)
Pittsworth	Independent			James Roberts		Percy Bayley
Port Curtis	Labor	George Carter	John Fletcher
Queenton	Labor	Vern Winstanley	Herbert Hall
Rockhampton	Labor	Frank Forde	Theodore Kingel
Rosewood	Labor	William Cooper		Arthur Selwyn Ogg
South Brisbane	Labor	Myles Ferricks
Stanley	Nationalist	William Delaney		Frederick Lancelot Nott		Duncan Watson
Toombul	Nationalist	John Taylor Watkins	Andrew Lang Petrie
Toowong	Nationalist	William McCosker	James Maxwell
Toowoomba	Labor	Frank Brennan	James Tolmie			Alexander Dark
Townsville	Labor	Daniel Ryan			William Green (Northern Country)
Warrego	Labor	Harry Coyne		Herbert Yeates
Warwick	Nationalist	Donald Beatson	George Barnes
Wide Bay	Labor	Andrew Thompson		Ernest Clayton
Windsor	Nationalist	Herbert McPhail	Charles Taylor

See also

• Queensland state election, 1920
• Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly, 1918–1920
• Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly, 1920–1923
• List of political parties in Australia

References

• Hughes, Colin A.; Graham, B. D. (1976). Voting for the Queensland Legislative Assembly, 1890-1964. Canberra: Australian National University. ISBN 0-7081-0301-4.