Candidates of the Queensland state election, 1941

This is a list of candidates who stood for the 1941 Queensland state election. The election was held on 29 March 1941.

The main parties in the election were the Labor Party, led by Premier William Forgan Smith, the Country Party, led by Leader of the Opposition Ted Maher, and the United Australia Party, 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.
• On 27 May 1939, Charles Brown (Independent) was elected to succeed George Pollock, who had died on 24 March, as the member for Gregory.
• On 27 May 1939, George Keyatta (Labor) was elected to succeed Maurice Hynes, who had died on 27 March, as the member for Townsville.
• 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.
• 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.

Retiring Members

Labor

• John Mullan (Carpentaria)

Country

• Arthur Edward Moore (Aubigny)

Candidates

Sitting members at the time of the election are shown in bold text. All of the candidates standing as "Independent Socialists" were actually members of the Communist Party of Australia 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 candidate	Country candidate	UAP candidate	Other party candidate(s)	Independent candidate(s)
Albert	Country	John Bray	Thomas Plunkett Jr.
Aubigny	Country	Adolphus Baker	Walter Sparkes
Barcoo	Labor	Frank Bulcock	Robert McGeoch
Baroona	Labor	William Power		Cecil Noble
Bowen	Labor	Ernest Riordan			Fred Paterson (Communist)
Bremer	Labor	Frank Cooper				Geordie Burns (Ind. Soc.)
Brisbane	Labor	John Henry Mann		Neville Fogerty	Claude Jones (Communist)
Bulimba	Labor	George Marriott		Daniel Miller
Bundaberg	Labor	Bernard McLean				Frank Barnes (Ind. Labor)
Buranda	Labor	Edward Hanson		Hector Annat
Cairns	Labor	John O'Keefe	William Griffen			Alan Tucker
Carnarvon	Labor	Paul Hilton
Carpentaria	Labor	Alfred Smith				James Boyd
Charters Towers	Labor	Arthur Jones			Syd Williams (Protestant Labor)
Cook	Labor	Harold Collins	James McDonald
Cooroora	Country		Harry Walker
Cunningham	Country	John Hilton	Herbert Castles			William Deacon (Ind. Country)
Dalby	Labor	Aubrey Slessar	Godfrey Morgan
East Toowoomba	Labor	James Kane	Herbert Yeates
Enoggera	Labor	George Taylor		Ernest Lanham		Mabel Matyear
Fassifern	Country	Peter Nelson	Adolf Muller
Fitzroy	Labor	James Clark
Fortitude Valley	Labor	Samuel Brassington		Ernest Downey
Gregory	Independent	George Devries				Charles Brown
Gympie	Labor	Thomas Dunstan	William Kidd, Sr.	Ronald Witham
Hamilton	UAP			Hugh Russell		Arthur Bruce Pie (Ind. Democrat)
Herbert	Labor	Stephen Theodore	Alfred Moule			Jack Wells (Ind. Soc.)
Ipswich	Labor	David Gledson	John Cantwell			Merv Welsby (Ind. Soc.)
Isis	Country	William Ivey	William Brand
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)
Keppel	Country	Walter Ingram	David Daniel			Ezra Shorley
Kurilpa	Labor	Patrick Copley		Norman Brandon		Ruby McGrorty (Ind. Soc.)
Logan	Labor	John Brown		Albert Pro-Copis
Mackay	Labor	William Forgan Smith				John Mulherin
Maranoa	Labor	Charles Conroy	Leslie Brown
Maree	Labor	William King		Louis Luckins
Maryborough	Labor	David Farrell			Robert McDowell (Protestant Labor)
Merthyr	Labor	Bill Moore		Samuel Glassey
Mirani	Labor	Ted Walsh	Alexander Kippen
Mundingburra	Labor	John Dash			Lionel Parsons (Protestant Labor)	Doug Olive (Ind. Soc.)
Murrumba	Country	George Watson	Frank Nicklin
Nanango	Country	Cecil Tracey	James Edwards			George Anderson
Normanby	Labor	Tom Foley				George Hamilton
Nundah	Labor	John Hayes		William Cook
Oxley	UAP	Henry Herbert		Thomas Nimmo
Port Curtis	Labor	Thomas Williams	Geoffrey Nichols
Rockhampton	Labor	James Larcombe				Robert Nicholls (Ind. Soc.)
Sandgate	Labor	Ronald Hislop	Eric Decker	James Fry
South Brisbane	Labor	Vince Gair		Daniel Rowley
Stanley	Country	Jim Hogan	Duncan MacDonald
The Tableland	Labor	Harry Bruce	Robert Griffiths			Jim Slater (Ind. Soc.)
Toowong	UAP	Tom Laws		Harry Massey
Toowoomba	Labor	Jack Duggan	John Leahy
Townsville	Labor	George Keyatta
Warrego	Labor	Randolph Bedford
Warwick	Labor	John Healy	Richard Matthews
West Moreton	Country	Fred Howman	Ted Maher
Wide Bay	Country	Thomas Thorpe	Ernest Clayton
Windsor	Labor	Herbert Williams		Neil O'Sullivan		Harry Moorhouse (Ind. Democrat)
Wynnum	UAP	William Laracy		William Dart		Joseph Bailes (Ind. Soc.)

See also

• Queensland state election, 1941
• Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly, 1938–1941
• Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly, 1941–1944
• 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.
• Results as published variously in 1941 Government Gazette