Candidates of the 1953 Western Australian state election

The 1953 Western Australian state election was held on 14 February 1953.

Retiring Members

Labor

• Ted Needham (MLA) (North Perth)

Independent

• William Read (MLA) (Victoria Park)

Legislative Assembly

Sitting members are shown in bold text. Successful candidates are highlighted in the relevant colour. Where there is possible confusion, an asterisk (*) is also used.

Electorate	Held by	Labor candidate	LCL candidate	Country candidate	Other candidates
Albany	Country	Karl Schulze		Leonard Hill
Avon Valley	LCL		James Mann
Blackwood	LCL		John Hearman
Boulder	Labor	Arthur Moir
Bunbury	Labor	Frank Guthrie
Canning	LCL	Colin Jamieson	Arthur Griffith
Claremont	LCL	Clifton Scott	Charles North
Collie	Labor	Harry May
Cottesloe	LCL	Diana Hart	Ross Hutchinson
Dale	LCL	Ronald Knowler	Gerald Wild
Darling Range	Country	John Rolinson		Ray Owen	Herbert Small (Ind. Lib)
East Perth	Labor	Herb Graham
Eyre	Labor	Emil Nulsen
Fremantle	Labor	Joseph Sleeman			Paddy Troy (Comm.)
Gascoyne	Ind. Lib	Daniel Norton	Robert Iles		Noel Butcher (Ind. Lib)
Geraldton	Labor	Bill Sewell	James McAleer Samuel Davey		Joyce Webber (Ind.)
Greenough	LCL	James Clune	David Brand
Guildford-Midland	Labor	John Brady			Albert Marks (Comm.)
Hannans	Labor	Herbert McCulloch			Harold Illingworth (Ind.)
Harvey	LCL	Robert McCallum	Iven Manning
Kalgoorlie	Labor	Herbert Styants
Katanning	Country			Crawford Nalder
Kimberley	Labor	Aubrey Coverley
Leederville	Labor	Ted Johnson	Jessie Robertson
Maylands	LCL	Owen Hanlon	Edward Oldfield		Samuel Spence (Ind.)
Melville	Labor	John Tonkin			James Collins (Ind.) James Hart (Ind.)
Merredin-Yilgarn	Labor	Lionel Kelly
Middle Swan	Labor	James Hegney
Moore	Country			John Ackland
Mount Hawthorn	Labor	Bill Hegney	Leonard Seaton
Mount Lawley	LCL		Arthur Abbott		Edward Zeffertt (Ind.)
Mount Marshall	Country			George Cornell
Murchison	Labor	Everard O'Brien	John Porteus John Thompson
Murray	LCL	Frederick Kidby	Ross McLarty
Narrogin	Country			Victor Doney
Nedlands	Ind. Lib	Margaret Pitt Morison	Charles Court* Peter Aldred Sidney Bedells		David Grayden (Ind. Lib) Noel Symington (Ind.)
North Perth	Labor	Stan Lapham	Florence Hummerston
Northam	Labor	Albert Hawke
Pilbara	Labor	Alec Rodoreda	Rowland Charlton
Roe	Country			Charles Perkins
South Fremantle	Labor	Dick Lawrence
South Perth	LCL	Francis French	George Yates		Carlyle Ferguson (Ind.)
Stirling	Country			Arthur Watts
Subiaco	LCL	Thomas Henley	Florence Cardell-Oliver
Toodyay	Country			Lindsay Thorn
Vasse	LCL		William Bovell
Victoria Park	Ind. Lib	Hugh Andrew	George Kerr		Harold Hawthorne (Ind.) Neil Payne (Comm.)
Warren	Labor	Ernest Hoar
Wembley Beaches	LCL	Eric Hall	Les Nimmo
West Perth	LCL	Stanley Heal	Joseph Totterdell

See also

• Members of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly, 1950–1953
• Members of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly, 1953–1956
• 1953 Western Australian state election

References

• Prescott, David Black with the assistance of Valerie (1997). Election statistics : Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, 1890-1996. Perth, [W.A.]: Western Australian Parliamentary History Project and Western Australian Electoral Commission. ISBN 0730984095.