Candidates of the 1922 Australian federal election

This article provides information on candidates who stood for the 1922 Australian federal election. The election was held on 16 December 1922.

By-elections, appointments and defections

By-elections and appointments

• On 10 July 1920, Charles McGrath (Labor) was elected to succeed Edwin Kerby (Nationalist) as the member for Ballaarat, after the latter's election in 1919 was declared void.
• On 18 December 1920, George Foley (Nationalist) was elected to succeed Hugh Mahon (Labor) as the member for Kalgoorlie following the latter's expulsion from the House.
• On 16 February 1921, Edward Vardon (Nationalist) was appointed as a South Australian Senator to succeed Robert Guthrie (Nationalist).
• On 30 July 1921, James Hunter (Country) was elected to succeed Jim Page (Labor) as the member for Maranoa.
• On 3 September 1921, William Lambert (Labor) was elected to succeed T. J. Ryan (Labor) as the member for West Sydney.
• On 10 December 1921, Herbert Pratten (Nationalist) was elected to succeed Sir Joseph Cook (Nationalist) as the member for Parramatta.
• On 15 December 1921, Henry Garling (Nationalist) was appointed as a New South Wales Senator to succeed Herbert Pratten (Nationalist).
• On 18 February 1922, James Scullin (Labor) was elected to succeed Frank Tudor (Labor) as the member for Yarra.
• On 26 May 1922, John MacDonald (Labor) was appointed as a Queensland Senator to succeed John Adamson (Nationalist).

Defections

• In 1920, Labor MP William Higgs (Capricornia) was expelled from the Labor Party. After a period as an Independent, he joined the Nationalist Party later that year.
• In 1920, the Australian Country Party was formed by the various state organisations. It was also joined by a number of Nationalist MPs: Llewellyn Atkinson (Wilmot), William Fleming (Robertson), Henry Gregory (Dampier), Alexander Hay (New England), Edmund Jowett (Echuca) and William McWilliams (Franklin).
• In 1922, Nationalists disaffected with Prime Minister Billy Hughes's leadership formed the Liberal Party. It was joined by Nationalists Richard Foster (Wakefield), William Watt (Balaclava), Senator James Rowell (South Australia) and Senator Edward Vardon (South Australia).
• In 1922, Country MP Alexander Hay (New England) was expelled from the party. He sat as an Independent.
• In 1922, Independent MP Frederick Francis (Henty) joined the Nationalist Party.
• In 1922, Labor MP James Catts (Cook) was expelled from the party. He contested the election for the Majority Labor Party.

Redistributions and seat changes

• Redistributions of electoral boundaries occurred in all states.
  • In New South Wales, the Independent-held seat of Barrier and the Nationalist-held seats of Illawarra and Nepean were abolished. Four new seats were created: Barton, Martin and Warringah were notionally Nationalist, and Reid was notionally Labor.
    • The member for Barrier, Michael Considine (Industrial Socialist Labor), contested Darling.
    • The member for Illawarra, Hector Lamond (Nationalist), contested Barton.
    • The member for Nepean, Eric Bowden (Nationalist), contested Parramatta.
    • The member for North Sydney, Sir Granville Ryrie (Nationalist), contested Warringah. (See also Victoria below.)
    • The member for Parramatta, Herbert Pratten (Nationalist), contested Martin.
  • In Victoria, the Country-held seat of Grampians was abolished.
    • The member for Bendigo, Prime Minister Billy Hughes (Nationalist), contested the New South Wales seat of North Sydney.
    • The member for Grampians, Edmund Jowett (Country), contested Bendigo.
  • In Queensland, the Nationalist-held seat of Brisbane became notionally Labor.
  • In Western Australia, the Country-held seat of Dampier was abolished. One new seat, Forrest (notionally Country), was created.
    • The member for Dampier, Henry Gregory (Country), contested Swan.
    • The member for Swan, John Prowse (Country), contested Forrest.
  • There were minimal changes in South Australia and Tasmania.
  • A new seat was created for the Northern Territory.

Retiring Members and Senators

Nationalist

• Reginald Burchell MP (Fremantle, WA)
• John Livingston MP (Barker, SA)
• Arnold Wienholt MP (Moreton, Qld)
• Senator George Fairbairn (Vic)

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	Nationalist candidate	Country candidate	Other candidate(s)
Barton	Nationalist	Frederick McDonald	Hector Lamond
Calare	Labor	Thomas Lavelle	Sir Neville Howse	Henry Pigott Selina Siggins
Cook	Labor	Edward Riley	William Pritchard		James Catts (MLP)
Cowper	Country		John Thomson	Earle Page
Dalley	Labor	William Mahony	William Simpson		Herbert Mitchell (MLP)
Darling	Labor	Arthur Blakeley	Walter Wright		Michael Considine (ISLP)
East Sydney	Labor	John West	Sir Benjamin Fuller
Eden-Monaro	Nationalist	Ulric Walsh	Austin Chapman
Gwydir	Labor	Lou Cunningham	William Ashford	Gordon Wilkins
Hume	Labor	Parker Moloney	Fred Belbridge	Cyril James
Hunter	Labor	Matthew Charlton
Lang	Nationalist	George Smith	Sir Elliot Johnson		Percy Evans (MLP)
Macquarie	Labor	Samuel Nicholls	Arthur Manning		John Miller (Ind)
Martin	Nationalist		Herbert Pratten
Newcastle	Labor	David Watkins	John Willings		Arthur Gardiner (Ind Lab)
New England	Nationalist	Sydney Kearney		Victor Thompson	Alexander Hay (Ind)
North Sydney	Nationalist		Billy Hughes		Albert Piddington (Const)
Parkes	Nationalist	Edward Cohen	Charles Marr
Parramatta	Nationalist	James Stone	Eric Bowden
Reid	Labor	Percy Coleman	Frederick Reed		Howard Fowles (MLP)
Richmond	Nationalist		Walter Massy-Greene	Roland Green	John Steel (Ind)
Riverina	Nationalist	Essell Hoad	John Chanter	William Bartram William Killen* John Lorimer
Robertson	Nationalist	Alfred Roberts	Sydney Gardner	William Fleming
South Sydney	Labor	Edward Riley	Robert Moore		Vivian Deacon (MLP)
Warringah	Nationalist		Sir Granville Ryrie
Wentworth	Nationalist	William Fitzgerald	Walter Marks		Henry Morton (Ind Nat)
Werriwa	Labor	Bert Lazzarini	Henry Bate	James Newman
West Sydney	Labor	William Lambert			Thomas Bryde (PLP) Arthur O'Donnell (MLP)

Northern Territory

Electorate	Held by	Labor candidate	Other candidate(s)
Northern Territory	None	Harold Nelson	William Byrne (Ind) Arthur Love (NTRL) George Stevens (Ind) Frederick Thompson (Ind) Walter Young (Ind)

Queensland

Electorate	Held by	Labor candidate	Nationalist candidate	Country candidate	Independent candidate(s)
Brisbane	Labor	Frank Burke	Donald Cameron
Capricornia	Labor	Frank Forde	William Higgs	Albert Gorrie
Darling Downs	Nationalist	James MacDougall	Littleton Groom
Herbert	Nationalist	Maurice Hynes	Fred Bamford
Kennedy	Labor	Charles McDonald		Robert Nowland
Lilley	Nationalist		George Mackay		Alexander Costello
Maranoa	Country	John Durkin		James Hunter
Moreton	Nationalist	Horace Lee	Josiah Francis	Francis Brewer
Oxley	Nationalist	James Sharpe	James Bayley
Wide Bay	Nationalist	Joseph Johnston	Edward Corser	James Heading

South Australia

Electorate	Held by	Labor candidate	Nationalist candidate	Liberal candidate	Country candidate
Adelaide	Nationalist	George Edwin Yates	Reginald Blundell	George McLeay
Angas	Labor	Moses Gabb		George Ritchie
Barker	Nationalist	Eric Shepherd		Malcolm Cameron	Ronald Hunt
Boothby	Nationalist	Harry Kneebone	William Story	Jack Duncan-Hughes
Grey	Nationalist	Andrew Lacey	Alexander Poynton
Hindmarsh	Labor	Norman Makin	Charles Hayter
Wakefield	Nationalist	Edward Stokes		Richard Foster	Henry Queale

Tasmania

Electorate	Held by	Labor candidate	Nationalist candidate	Country candidate	Other candidates
Bass	Nationalist	Alfred Higgins	Syd Jackson		John Hegarty (Ind Nat) King O'Malley (Ind Lab)
Darwin	Nationalist		George Bell	Joshua Whitsitt	James Campbell (Ind)
Denison	Nationalist	David O'Keefe	Leopold Broinowski Edward Mulcahy William Laird Smith		David Blanshard (Ind)
Franklin	Nationalist	Benjamin Watkins	Alfred Seabrook	William McWilliams
Wilmot	Nationalist	John Palamountain	George Pullen	Llewellyn Atkinson* Norman Cameron John Campbell

Victoria

Electorate	Held by	Labor candidate	Nationalist candidate	Country-Liberal candidate	Other candidates
Balaclava	Nationalist			William Watt (Lib)
Ballaarat	Labor	Charles McGrath	Russell Coldham	Sydney King (Lib)
Batman	Labor	Frank Brennan	George Mackay		Martin Hannah (Ind Lab)
Bendigo	Nationalist	Thomas Jude	Geoffry Hurry	Edmund Jowett (CP)
Bourke	Labor	Frank Anstey	John March
Corangamite	Country	Richard Crouch	Allan McDonald	William Gibson (CP)
Corio	Nationalist	Alfred Hampson	John Lister
Echuca	Country		James Stewart	William Hill (CP)
Fawkner	Nationalist	Alfred Foster	George Maxwell	John Murphy (Lib)
Flinders	Nationalist		Stanley Bruce	Stephen Thompson (Lib)
Gippsland	Nationalist	James Bermingham	George Wise	Thomas Paterson (CP)
Henty	Independent	Roy Beardsworth	James Boyd Frederick Francis*	Eleanor Glencross (Lib) Henry Gullett (Lib)
Indi	Country	John Minogue	Donald Mackinnon	Robert Cook (CP)
Kooyong	Nationalist	Jean Daley	Sir Robert Best	John Latham (Lib)
Maribyrnong	Labor	James Fenton	James Stephens
Melbourne	Labor	William Maloney	Ernest Nicholls
Melbourne Ports	Labor	James Mathews	Selwyn Neale
Wannon	Nationalist	John McNeill	Arthur Rodgers	David Gibson (CP)
Wimmera	Country			Percy Stewart (CP)	Alfred Shaw (UCP)
Yarra	Labor	James Scullin	Thomas Fitzgerald

Western Australia

Electorate	Held by	Labor candidate	Nationalist candidate	Country candidate	Independent candidate(s)
Forrest	Country		Peter Wedd	John Prowse
Fremantle	Nationalist	John Holman	William Hedges		William Watson
Kalgoorlie	Nationalist	Albert Green	George Foley
Perth	Nationalist	Andrew Clementson	Harry Bolton Alfred Carson James Fowler Edward Mann*
Swan	Country			Henry Gregory

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

Three seats were up for election. The Nationalist Party was defending three seats. Labor Senator Albert Gardiner and Nationalist Senators Charles Cox and Walter Duncan were not up for re-election.

Labor candidates	Nationalist candidates	Country candidates	Other candidates
James Dunn John Grant* Allan McDougall*	Henry Garling Edward Millen* Josiah Thomas	Percy Abbott John Crapp William Hedges	John Powell (MLP) Arthur Rae (ISLP)

Queensland

Four seats were up for election. One of these was a short-term vacancy caused by Nationalist Senator John Adamson's death; this seat had been filled in the interim by Labor's John MacDonald. The Nationalist Party was defending four seats. Nationalist Senators Thomas Givens and Sir William Glasgow were not up for re-election.

Labor candidates	Nationalist candidates	Country candidates	Independent candidates
Harry Bruce Harald Jensen John MacDonald George Martens	Thomas Crawford* Harry Foll* Matthew Reid* William Thompson*	John Austin William Fielding	James Petersen Herbert Yeates

South Australia

Three seats were up for election. The Nationalist Party was defending three seats. Nationalist Senators Benjamin Benny, John Newland and Victor Wilson were not up for re-election.

Labor candidates	Nationalist candidates	Liberal candidates	Other candidates
Bert Hoare* Charles McHugh* James O'Loghlin*	Henry Chesson William Senior John Verran	Alexander McLachlan James Rowell Edward Vardon	Frederic Andrews (Ind Nat)

Tasmania

Three seats were up for election. The Nationalist Party was defending three seats. Nationalist Senators George Foster, John Millen and Herbert Payne were not up for re-election.

Labor candidates	Nationalist candidates	Country candidates
James Ogden*	Thomas Bakhap* John Earle Henry Goodluck Herbert Hays* John Keating William Williams	William Dixon

Victoria

Three seats were up for election. The Nationalist Party was defending three seats. Nationalist Senators Harold Elliott, James Guthrie and Edward Russell were not up for re-election.

Labor candidates	Nationalist candidates	Country-Liberal candidates	Independent candidates
Stephen Barker* John Barnes* Edward Findley*	William Bolton William Plain George Swinburne	David Andrew (CP) Charles Merrett (Lib) Andrew White (CP)	John Foran

Western Australia

Three seats were up for election. The Nationalist Party was defending three seats. Nationalist Senators Edmund Drake-Brockman, Patrick Lynch and George Pearce were not up for re-election.

Labor candidates	Nationalist candidates	Country candidates	Independent candidates
Charles Graham* Ted Needham* Charles Williams	Joseph Allen Richard Buzacott Hugh de Largie George Henderson Walter Kingsmill* Emanuel Lazarus James Rogers	William Carroll Leonard Darlot Archibald Sanderson	Patrick Stone

See also

• 1922 Australian federal election
• Members of the Australian House of Representatives, 1919–1922
• Members of the Australian House of Representatives, 1922–1925
• Members of the Australian Senate, 1920–1923
• Members of the Australian Senate, 1923–1926
• List of political parties in Australia

References

• Adam Carr's Election Archive - House of Representatives 1922
• Adam Carr's Election Archive - Senate 1922