Candidates of the Queensland state election, 1957
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This is a list of candidates who stood for the 1957 Queensland state election
Queensland state election, 1957
Elections were held in the Australian state of Queensland on 3 August 1957 to elect the 75 members of the state's Legislative Assembly. The major parties contesting the election were the Queensland Labor Party led by Premier Vince Gair, the Australian Labor Party led by former Deputy Premier John...

. The election was held on 3 August 1957.

The election followed a split in April 1957 in the Australian Labor Party
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

, which had been in government for 39 of the previous 42 years. The main parties in the election were the Queensland Labor Party
Queensland Labor Party
The Queensland Labor Party was a political party of Queensland, Australia formed in 1957 by a breakaway group of the then ruling Australian Labor Party Government after the expulsion of Premier Vince Gair...

 (QLP), led by Premier Vince Gair
Vince Gair
Vincent Clare "Vince" Gair was an Australian politician. He served as Premier of Queensland from 1952 until 1957, when his stormy relations with the trade union movement saw him expelled from the Australian Labor Party. He was elected to the Australian Senate and led the Democratic Labor Party...

; the Labor Party
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

, led by former Deputy Premier
Deputy Premier of Queensland
The Deputy Premier of Queensland is a role in the Government of Queensland assigned to a responsible Minister in the Australian state of Queensland. It has second ranking behind the Premier of Queensland in Cabinet, and its holder serves as Acting Premier during absence or incapacity of the Premier...

 John Duggan, the Country Party
National Party of Australia
The National Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Traditionally representing graziers, farmers and rural voters generally, it began as the The Country Party, but adopted the name The National Country Party in 1975, changed to The National Party of Australia in 1982. The party is...

, led by Leader of the Opposition
Leader of the Opposition (Queensland)
This is a list of Leaders of the Opposition in Queensland. Prior to 1898, opposition to the government of the day was less organised. Thus the Queensland Parliamentary Record does not designate Leaders of the Opposition before then....

 Frank Nicklin
Frank Nicklin
Sir George Francis Reuben Nicklin, KCMG, MM was Premier of the Australian state of Queensland from 1957 to 1968, and the first Country Party Premier since 1932.-Early life and career:...

, and the Liberal Party
Liberal Party of Australia
The Liberal Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Founded a year after the 1943 federal election to replace the United Australia Party, the centre-right Liberal Party typically competes with the centre-left Australian Labor Party for political office...

, led by Kenneth Morris
Kenneth Morris (Australian politician)
Sir Kenneth James Morris KBE was an Australian politician. Born in Brisbane, he was educated at Brisbane Grammar School before becoming the director of his family's boot manufacturing firm. In 1931, he married Ettie Louise Dunlop. He served in the military 1939-1944, in Britain , Tobruk and Egypt...

.

By-elections

On 8 December 1956, Pat Hanlon (Labor) was elected to succeed Leonard Eastment
Leonard Eastment
Leonard Eastment was an Australian politician. He was the Labor member for Ithaca in the Queensland Legislative Assembly from 1952 to 1956....

 (Labor), who had died on 29 July 1956, as the member for Ithaca.

QLP

  • George Devries (Gregory
    Electoral district of Gregory
    The district of Gregory is a Queensland Legislative Assembly electoral district in Queensland, Australia.-Members for Gregory:-Election results:-External links:*...

    ) — died before the election.

Country

  • Thomas Plunkett Jr. (Darlington
    Electoral district of Darlington
    Darlington was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales, created in 1894 with the division of the multi-member district of Redfern and named after and including the inner Sydney suburb of Darlington. It was abolished in 1904 with the downsizing of...

    )

Candidates

Sitting members at the time of the election are in bold.
Electorate Held by Labor
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

 Candidate
Country
National Party of Australia
The National Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Traditionally representing graziers, farmers and rural voters generally, it began as the The Country Party, but adopted the name The National Country Party in 1975, changed to The National Party of Australia in 1982. The party is...

 Candidate
Liberal
Liberal Party of Australia
The Liberal Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Founded a year after the 1943 federal election to replace the United Australia Party, the centre-right Liberal Party typically competes with the centre-left Australian Labor Party for political office...

 Candidate
QLP
Queensland Labor Party
The Queensland Labor Party was a political party of Queensland, Australia formed in 1957 by a breakaway group of the then ruling Australian Labor Party Government after the expulsion of Premier Vince Gair...

 Candidate
Other Party Candidate(s)
 
Aubigny
Electoral district of Aubigny
The electoral district of Aubigny was a Legislative Assembly electorate in the state of Queensland. It was first created in a redistribution ahead of the 1873 state election, and existed until the 1972 state election....

 
Country Walter Sparkes
Balonne  Labor John Taylor Edwin Beardmore  A. H. Bunton
Barambah
Electoral district of Barambah
Barambah was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland from 1950 to 2001.The district was based in the South Burnett region. It is best known for being the seat of long-serving Premier, Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen....

 
Country Joh Bjelke-Petersen
Joh Bjelke-Petersen
Sir Johannes "Joh" Bjelke-Petersen, KCMG , was an Australian politician. He was the longest-serving and longest-lived Premier of Queensland, holding office from 1968 to 1987, a period that saw considerable economic development in the state...

T. J. O'Neill
Barcoo  Labor Edward Davis R. E. Paynter S. T. Barry
Baroona  QLP Norman Buchan Robert Thomasson William Power
Belyando  QLP J. Williams C. R. Whyte Tom Foley
Bremer  Labor James Donald George Groth F. Corbutt
Brisbane
Electoral district of Brisbane (Queensland)
Brisbane was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland from 1912 to 1977.Based in inner central Brisbane, north of the Brisbane River, it was first created as a single member constituency for the 1912 state election, largely replacing the dual member...

 
Labor John Henry Mann Roger Moore D. Casey
Bulimba
Electoral district of Bulimba
-External links:*...

 
QLP Jack Houston
Jack Houston
John William "Jack" Houston was an Australian politician. He was the Labor member for Bulimba in the Queensland Legislative Assembly from 1957 to 1980....

 
Bill Lickiss  Robert Gardner H. W. Ricketts
Bundaberg
Electoral district of Bundaberg
The division of Bundaberg is an electoral district of the Queensland Legislative Assembly in central Queensland, Australia.It covers the city of Bundaberg, as well as the immediate surrounding area, hence its name....

 
QLP William Elson-Green Thomas Pulsford Ted Walsh
Buranda  Labor Richard Kidston Brown Keith Hooper  Michael Lyons J. K. Handasyde
Burdekin
Electoral district of Burdekin
Burdekin is an electoral district in the Queensland Legislative Assembly in the state of Queensland, Australia. Centred on the Ayr–Home Hill region, the electorate also includes some of Townsville's southern suburbs as well as the coal-mining town of Collinsville...

 
Independent John Gralton Oliver Andersen Arthur Coburn
Cairns
Electoral district of Cairns
The electoral district of Cairns is an electoral district in the Queensland Legislative Assembly in the state of Queensland, Australia.The division encompasses the central business district and inner-suburbs of Cairns, in Far North Queensland...

 
Labor George Wallace C. J. Cummings J. J. Bidney
Callide
Electoral district of Callide
The district of Callide is an electoral division in Queensland, Australia.It encompasses agricultural and mining towns in the Burnett, Callide and Dawson valleys...

 
Country Vincent Jones
Carnarvon
Electoral district of Carnarvon
Carnarvon was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland that existed from 1873 to 1992.The district took in rural areas in southern Queensland, including the towns of Stanthorpe and Goondiwindi....

 
QLP Douglas Gow Fred Rogers Paul Hilton
Carpentaria  QLP Alex Inch  William Aplin Alfred Smith
Charters Towers
Electoral district of Charters Towers
Charters Towers was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland. It has had three incarnations, most recently being created as part of a redistribution in 1991 and lasting until 2008....

 
QLP R. H. Davies K. S. Siemon Arthur Jones
Chermside
Electoral district of Chermside
Chermside was the name of two incarnations of an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland.Both districts were based in the north-eastern suburbs of Brisbane and named for the suburb of Chermside. The first existed from 1950 to 1960 and the second from...

 
Liberal L. H. Sampson Alexander Dewar J. R. Parry
Clayfield
Electoral district of Clayfield
The district of Clayfield is an electoral division of the Queensland Legislative Assembly. It is centred around the inner northern suburb of Clayfield in the state capital of Brisbane....

 
Liberal Harold Taylor James Ryan (Conservative)
Condamine
Electoral district of Condamine
The district of Condamine is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland.Condamine takes in areas to the north-west, west and south of Toowoomba. It includes the towns of Dalby, Oakey, Pittsworth and Clifton. The district is named for the Condamine River...

 
QLP W. R. Eggington Stewart Keys Leslie Diplock
Cook
Electoral district of Cook
The electoral division of Cook is an electoral district in Queensland, Australia.Cook covers the vast Cape York Peninsula north of Cairns, including the resort town of Port Douglas and the Torres Strait Islands...

 
QLP S. D. E. Chataway Carlisle Wordsworth  Bunny Adair
Cooroora  Country R. A. Smith David Low
Coorparoo  Liberal Bernard Ouston Thomas Hiley
Cunningham
Electoral district of Cunningham
Cunningham was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland from 1888 to 2009.Prior to its abolition, the district occupied an area of the Darling Downs, south and west of Toowoomba. Historically it was centred on the town of Clifton. The eastern portion...

 
Country Alan Fletcher L. T. Ott
Darlington
Electoral district of Darlington
Darlington was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales, created in 1894 with the division of the multi-member district of Redfern and named after and including the inner Sydney suburb of Darlington. It was abolished in 1904 with the downsizing of...

 
Country Charles Knoll Robert Harrison  M. J. Smith
H. Longfield
Fassifern  Country Adolf Muller Kenneth Rawle
Fitzroy  Labor James Clark G. P. Dunn J. W. Norton
Flinders
Electoral district of Flinders (Queensland)
The electoral district of Flinders was formerly a state electorate in the Parliament of Queensland covering parts of central Queensland. It was abolished in a redistribution in 1991, effective 1992. The last sitting member of the seat was Bob Katter, who had held it since December 1974.-Members for...

 
Labor Frank Forde
Frank Forde
Francis Michael Forde PC was an Australian politician and the 15th Prime Minister of Australia. He was the shortest serving Prime Minister in Australia's history, being in office for only eight days.-Early life:...

Bill Lonergan  Bob Katter, Sr.
Bob Katter, Sr.
Robert Cummin "Bob" Katter was an Australian federal politician and Minister for the Army. He was a Country Party member of the Australian House of Representatives for over 23 years.-Early years and background:...

 
C. Corney (Ind. Labor)
Fortitude Valley  QLP Jack Egerton
Jack Egerton
Sir John Alfred Roy Egerton was an Australian trade union organiser and member of the Australian Labor Party. Egerton was born in Emerald, Queensland and was educated at Rockhampton and Mount Morgan High Schools....

 
Robert Windsor  Michael Brosnan
Gregory
Electoral district of Gregory
The district of Gregory is a Queensland Legislative Assembly electoral district in Queensland, Australia.-Members for Gregory:-Election results:-External links:*...

 
QLP John Duggan  Robert Windsor  K. Smith
Haughton  QLP V. J. Owens W. A. Clayton Colin McCathie
Hinchinbrook
Electoral district of Hinchinbrook
The district of Hinchinbrook is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland.The district in its present form is a narrow coastal strip running from just south of Innisfail to just north of Townsville; though neither town is part of the electorate....

 
Labor Cecil Jesson John Row  John William Argaet Francis Curro
Ipswich
Electoral district of Ipswich
The district of Ipswich is a Queensland Legislative Assembly electoral district on the Brisbane River, west of Brisbane in the Australian state of Queensland...

 
Labor Ivor Marsden W. T. Gibbs R. C. Johnstone
Isis  Country Jack Pizzey
Jack Pizzey
Jack Charles Allan Pizzey was a Queensland Country Party politician. He was Premier of Queensland, in a coalition with the Liberal Party, from 17 January 1968 until his death on 31 July that year....

Edward McDonnell
Ithaca  Labor Pat Hanlon Alan Edwards A. D. Machin
Kedron
Electoral district of Kedron
Kedron was the name of two incarnations of an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland.Both districts were based in the northern suburbs of Brisbane and named for the suburb of Kedron. The first existed from 1950 to 1972 and the second from 1992 to...

 
Labor Eric Lloyd J. L. Harris C. W. Uhr
Kelvin Grove  Labor John Albert Turner Douglas Tooth  J. J. Dawson
Keppel
Electoral district of Keppel
The district of Keppel is an electoral district in the state of Queensland, Australia.The electoral district encompasses the central Queensland coast from the mouth of the Fitzroy River in the south to Shoalwater Bay to the north...

 
QLP Mervyn Thackeray  Tom Griffith Viv Cooper Rex Pilbeam
Kurilpa
Electoral district of Kurilpa
Kurilpa was a Legislative Assembly electorate in the state of Queensland from 1912 to 1986. It was named for the Kurilpa Peninsula on the Brisbane River...

 
QLP M. J. Kane Peter Connolly  Thomas Moores G. H. Fry (Ind. Labor)
Landsborough
Electoral district of Landsborough
Landsborough was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland from 1950 to 1992. The district was based on the Sunshine Coast....

 
Country Frank Nicklin
Frank Nicklin
Sir George Francis Reuben Nicklin, KCMG, MM was Premier of the Australian state of Queensland from 1957 to 1968, and the first Country Party Premier since 1932.-Early life and career:...

Lockyer
Electoral district of Lockyer
The district of Lockyer is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland.The district consists primarily of Gatton and Laidley Shires and northern parts of Beaudesert Shire. It includes the major town of Gatton and a number of smaller centres including...

 
Liberal Gordon Chalk
Gordon Chalk
Sir Gordon William Wesley Chalk, KBE was Premier of Queensland for a week, from 1 to 8 August 1968. He was the first, and only, Queensland Premier from the modern Liberal Party of Australia....

Jim Dwyer (Ind. Labor)
Mackay
Electoral district of Mackay
The district of Mackay is a Queensland Legislative Assembly electoral district in North Queensland, Australia, encompassing the inner suburbs of the city of Mackay...

 
Labor Fred Graham W. G. Field J. M. Griffin
Mackenzie  Country W. G. James Neville Hewitt J. T. Cook
Marodian  Country William Weir James Heading
James Heading
James Alfred Heading was an Australian politician. He was the Country Party member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly for Wide Bay from 1947 to 1950 and for Marodian from 1950 to 1960....

Maryborough
Electoral district of Maryborough
The district of Maryborough is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland.The district is centred on the regional city of Maryborough and takes in other surrounding communities....

 
Labor Horace Davies James Dunn C. G. Gott
Merthyr
Electoral district of Merthyr
Merthyr was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland from 1912 to 1992.First created for the 1912 state election, the district was based in inner Brisbane centred on the suburb of New Farm, covering areas that previously belonged to the district of...

 
QLP Tom Campbell Ray Ramsden  Bill Moore
Mirani
Electoral district of Mirani
The district of Mirani is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland.It covers much of the Queensland coast between the cities of Rockhampton and Mackay, as well as the hinterland west of Mackay. Towns include St Lawrence, Carmila, Sarina, and Eungella...

 
Country J. C. Chataway Ernie Evans Walter O'Grady
Mount Coot-tha
Electoral district of Mount Coot-tha
The district of Mount Coot-tha is an electoral district in the Queensland Legislative Assembly in the state of Queensland, Australia.The electoral district encompasses suburbs in Brisbane's inner-west, including Milton, Auchenflower, Paddington, Bardon and parts of the suburbs of Toowong and Ashgrove...

 
Liberal D. E. Raven Kenneth Morris
Kenneth Morris (Australian politician)
Sir Kenneth James Morris KBE was an Australian politician. Born in Brisbane, he was educated at Brisbane Grammar School before becoming the director of his family's boot manufacturing firm. In 1931, he married Ettie Louise Dunlop. He served in the military 1939-1944, in Britain , Tobruk and Egypt...

J. F. Lynch
Mount Gravatt
Electoral district of Mount Gravatt
Mount Gravatt was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland from 1950 to 2009.The district was based in the southern suburbs of Brisbane...

 
Labor Felix Dittmer
Felix Dittmer
Felix Cyril Sigismund Dittmer was an Australian politician. Born in Dugandan, Queensland, he was educated at state schools and then the University of Queensland and the University of Sydney, becoming a doctor. He was an honorary surgeon in Brisbane...

Graham Hart
Graham Hart
Graham Lloyd Hart was an Australian politician. He was the Liberal member for Mount Gravatt in the Queensland Legislative Assembly from 1957 to 1963....

 
C. A. Edwards H. M. Boone
Mourilyan
Electoral district of Mourilyan
Mourilyan was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland from 1950 to 1992.First created for the 1950 state election, the district was based in north Queensland, centred on the town of Mourilyan, taking in areas previously belonging to the abolished...

 
Labor Peter Byrne E. H. Webb A. L. Drew
Mulgrave
Electoral district of Mulgrave (Queensland)
The district of Mulgrave is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland.The district in its present form is a narrow coastal strip running from the southern suburbs of Cairns at its northern end to Innisfail at its southern end. Mulgrave also includes the...

 
QLP L. R. Trembath Robert Watson  Charles English
Mundingburra
Electoral district of Mundingburra
The district of Mundingburra is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland.- Overview :The seat is one of four within the Townsville urban area in North Queensland. Significant utilities within the Mundingburra electorate are the Townsville Hospital,...

 
NQLP Jim Mahony Tom Aikens (NQLP
North Queensland Labor Party
The North Queensland Labor Party was a minor political party in Australia from 1949 to 1974. The Party succeeded the Hermit Park Labor Party in 1949 and was succeeded by the North Queensland Party in 1974....

)
G. F. Evans
Murrumba
Electoral district of Murrumba
The district of Murrumba is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland.The district is based in the outer northern suburbs of Brisbane. It includes the suburbs of Deception Bay, Kippa-Ring, Murrumba Downs and Rothwell...

 
Country B. C. Krause David Nicholson M. H. Ryan
Nash  QLP George Hooper Max Hodges  Greg Kehoe
Greg Kehoe
Gregory Brian "Greg" Kehoe was an Australian politician. He was the member for Nash in the Queensland Legislative Assembly from 1953 to 1957, representing first the Australian Labor Party and then the breakaway Queensland Labor Party.-References:...

Norman  Labor William Baxter George Regan N. M. Tacey
North Toowoomba
Electoral district of North Toowoomba
The electoral district of North Toowoomba was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland. It was created with the 1950 redistribution and removed by the 1960 redistribution....

 
Labor Leslie Wood S. S. Webb F. G. Bowdler
Nundah
Electoral district of Nundah
Nundah was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland from 1888 to 1992.The district was based in the northern suburbs of Brisbane. At the time of its abolition it included the suburbs of Nundah, Eagle Farm, Hendra and Toombul.-Members for Nundah:...

 
QLP Dudley Ryder William Knox
William Knox (Queensland politician)
Sir William Knox was born in Victoria, Australia and was the Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly representing the district of Nundah for the Liberal Party of Australia between from 1956 to 1989....

 
James Hadley
James Hadley (Australian politician)
James William Hadley was an Australian politician. Born in Brisbane, he received a primary education before becoming a timber worker, after which he worked with the railways. He was also an organiser with the Australian Workers' Union...

Port Curtis
Electoral district of Port Curtis
Port Curtis was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland from 1860 to 1992.The district was centred on the regional city of Gladstone. In 1992, it was renamed Gladstone.-Members for Port Curtis:...

 
Labor James Burrows C. A. Wilson Samuel Andrewartha
Rockhampton
Electoral district of Rockhampton
The district of Rockhampton is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland.Wedged between the electoral districts of Keppel to the east and Mirani to the west, Rockhampton encompasses the bulk of the regional city of Rockhampton and many of its outlying...

 
Labor J. N. Fraser J. F. Marshall Robert Gardner Rex Pilbeam
Tom Kelly
Roma  QLP W. Hay William Ewan  Alfred Dohring
Alfred Dohring
Alfred Dohring was an Australian politician. He was the member for Roma in the Queensland Legislative Assembly from 1953 to 1957, representing first the Australian Labor Party and then the breakaway Queensland Labor Party in 1957.-References:...

J. Clarke (Ind. Country)
Sandgate
Electoral district of Sandgate
The district of Sandgate is an electoral division in the state of Queensland, Australia.It is located in the northern suburbs of Brisbane, covering Sandgate, Shorncliffe, Deagon, Brighton, Bracken Ridge, Fitzgibbon, and Taigum...

 
QLP Harold Dean  Thomas Ahearn
Thomas Ahearn
Thomas Ahearn, PC was a Canadian inventor and businessman. Ahearn, a native of Ottawa, was instrumental in the success a vast streetcar system that was once in Ottawa, the Ottawa Electric Railway, and was the first chairman of Canada's Federal District Commission in 1927...

 
Herbert Robinson
Herbert Robinson (Queensland politician)
Herbert Freemont Robinson was an Australian politician, and a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly from 1953 until 1957 representing the seat of Sandgate.-Biography:...

Sherwood
Electoral district of Sherwood
Sherwood was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland from 1950 to 1992.First created for the 1950 state election, the district was based in the south-western suburbs of Brisbane, covering areas that previously belonged to the abolished district of Oxley...

 
Liberal Doug Sherrington  John Herbert Harry Wright
Somerset  QLP Evan Marginson
Evan Marginson
Evan Marginson was an Australian politician. He was a Labor member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly from 1969 to 1977, representing Ipswich East until 1972 and Wolston thereafter....

 
Harold Richter  Alexander Skinner
South Brisbane
Electoral district of South Brisbane
The district of South Brisbane is an electoral district of the Queensland Legislative Assembly. The electorate encompasses suburbs in Brisbane's inner-south, stretching from East Brisbane to West End, and south to Fairfield...

 
QLP Tom Doyle W. N. Henry Vince Gair
Vince Gair
Vincent Clare "Vince" Gair was an Australian politician. He served as Premier of Queensland from 1952 until 1957, when his stormy relations with the trade union movement saw him expelled from the Australian Labor Party. He was elected to the Australian Senate and led the Democratic Labor Party...

Frank Roberts
Frank Roberts (mayor)
Frank Roberts was the Lord Mayor of Brisbane for a single term from 1952 to 1955.He also held the seat of Nundah in the Queensland Legislative Assembly from 1947 to 1956 ....


J. A. Noonan
Southport
Electoral district of Southport
The district of Southport is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland.The district is based in the northern part of the Gold Coast. It is named for the suburb of Southport, and also includes the suburbs of Arundel, Ernest, Labrador, Molendinar and...

 
Country William Belford Eric Gaven
Tablelands
Electoral district of Tablelands
Tablelands was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland.Prior to its abolition, it encompassed towns on the Atherton Tablelands west of Cairns, including Mareeba, Atherton, Ravenshoe, Chillagoe and Mount Molloy. The seat was won by the One Nation Party...

 
QLP S. E. Tullipan Tom Gilmore
Tom Gilmore, senior
Thomas Vernon "Tom" Gilmore was an Australian politician. Born in Wolfram, Queensland, he was educated at state schools before becoming a sugarcane and tobacco grower at Babinda. He served in the military 1942–47...

 
Harold Collins
Harold Collins (politician)
Harold Henry Collins was an Australian politician. He was the Labor member for Cook from 1935 to 1950 and for Tablelands from 1950 to 1957, when he defected to the breakaway Queensland Labor Party.-References:...

Toowong  Liberal Alan Munro
Toowoomba
Electoral district of Toowoomba
The Electoral District of Toowoomba was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland. It was created in 1912 when the old seat of Drayton & Toowoomba split into Toowoomba, East Toowoomba and Drayton...

 
Labor John Duggan Mervyn Anderson  T. D. McCawley V. Lacaze
Townsville
Electoral district of Townsville
The district of Townsville is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland. The seat is one of four within the Townsville urban area in North Queensland, and covers the Eastern and Northern suburbs of the City of Townsville as well as Magnetic Island and...

 
Labor George Keyatta Roy Pope Lionel Tomlins
Warrego
Electoral district of Warrego
The district of Warrego is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland.The electorate lies in the extreme southwest of Queensland, running along the western part of the border with New South Wales...

 
Labor John Dufficy
John Dufficy
John Joseph Dufficy was an Australian politician. He was the Labor member for Warrego in the Queensland Legislative Assembly from 1951 to 1969....

Arnold White J. A. Glynn
Warwick
Electoral district of Warwick
Warwick was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland from 1860 to 2001. It centred on the town of Warwick....

 
Country Otto Madsen G. P. Wilkinson
Whitsunday
Electoral district of Whitsunday
The district of Whitsunday is an electoral division in the Queensland Legislative Assembly, Queensland, Australia.It encompasses the Whitsunday Islands as well as mainland centres from Bowen to the northern suburbs of Mackay, Queensland, including the tourist resort of Airlie Beach and the sugar...

 
Country R. L. Staples Lloyd Roberts
Lloyd Roberts (politician)
Lloyd Henry Scurfield Roberts was an Australian politician. He was the Country Party member for Whitsunday in the Queensland Legislative Assembly from 1950 to 1961....

B. J. Lewis
Windsor
Electoral district of Windsor (Queensland)
Windsor was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland from 1912 to 1992.First created for the 1912 state election, the district was based in the northern suburbs of Brisbane, taking in areas north of Breakfast Creek and south of Kedron Brook...

 
QLP K. M. Kemshead Percy Smith  Thomas Rasey
Thomas Rasey
Thomas William Rasey was an Australian politician. He was the member for Windsor in the Queensland Legislative Assembly from 1950 to 1957, representing the Australian Labor Party until 1957 and the breakaway Queensland Labor Party thereafter....

Wynnum
Electoral district of Wynnum
Wynnum was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland from 1923 to 1986.The district was based in the eastern suburbs of Brisbane and named for the suburb of Wynnum.-Members for Wynnum:...

 
Labor William Gunn P. S. McAdam J. B. Pendergast W. F. St. George-Grambauer
Yeronga
Electoral district of Yeronga
Yeronga was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland from 1950 to 2001.The district was based in the southern suburbs of Brisbane and named for the suburb of Yeronga.-Members for Yeronga:...

 
Liberal R. M. Dent Winston Noble W. A. Quaill

See also

  • Queensland state election, 1957
    Queensland state election, 1957
    Elections were held in the Australian state of Queensland on 3 August 1957 to elect the 75 members of the state's Legislative Assembly. The major parties contesting the election were the Queensland Labor Party led by Premier Vince Gair, the Australian Labor Party led by former Deputy Premier John...

  • Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly, 1956–1957
    Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly, 1956–1957
    This is a list of members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly from 19 May 1956 to 3 August 1957, as elected at the 1956 state election. The term was cut short by a split within the governing Australian Labor Party—the Premier, Vince Gair, and all but one of his ministers were expelled from the...

  • Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly, 1957–1960
    Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly, 1957–1960
    This is a list of members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly from 1957 to 1960, as elected at the 1957 state election:-References:* Waterson, D.B. Biographical register of the Queensland Parliament, 1930-1980 Canberra: ANU Press...

  • List of political parties in Australia
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