Candidates of the Australian federal election, 1913

This article provides information on candidates who stood for the 1913 Australian federal election. The election was held on 31 May 1913.

Contents 1 By-elections, appointments and defections 1.1 By-elections and appointments 1.2 Defections 2 Redistributions and seat changes 3 Retiring Members and Senators 3.1 Labor 3.2 Liberal 4 House of Representatives 4.1 New South Wales 4.2 Queensland 4.3 South Australia 4.4 Tasmania 4.5 Victoria 4.6 Western Australia 5 Senate 5.1 New South Wales 5.2 Queensland 5.3 South Australia 5.4 Tasmania 5.5 Victoria 5.6 Western Australia 6 See also 7 References

By-elections, appointments and defections

By-elections and appointments

• On 24 August 1910, Robert Best (Liberal) was elected to replace William Knox (Liberal) as the member for Kooyong.
• On 8 February 1911, Frank Brennan (Labour) was elected to replace Henry Beard (Labour) as the member for Batman.
• On 11 March 1911, Granville Ryrie (Liberal) was elected to replace George Edwards (Liberal) as the member for North Sydney.
• On 11 November 1911, David Gordon (Liberal) was elected to replace Lee Batchelor (Labour) as the member for Boothby.
• On 1 June 1912, Benjamin Bennett (Labor) was elected to replace David Hall (Labor) as the member for Werriwa.
• On 31 July 1912, John Shannon (Liberal) was appointed as a South Australian Senator to replace William Russell (Labor).

Defections

• Liberal Senator Cyril Cameron (Tasmania) lost pre-selection and contested the election as an Independent.

Redistributions and seat changes

• Redistributions of electoral boundaries occurred in New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland and Western Australia.
  • In New South Wales, no seats were created or abolished. The Liberal-held seat of Illawarra became notionally Labor, while the Labor-held seats of Nepean and Robertson became notionally Liberal.
  • In Victoria, Laanecoorie and Mernda (both Liberal-held) were abolished and Henty (notionally Liberal) was created. The Liberal-held seats of Fawkner and Grampians became notionally Labor.
    • The member for Laanecoorie, Charles Salmon (Liberal), contested the Senate.
  • In Queensland, the seat of Lilley (notionally Liberal) was created.
  • In Western Australia, Coolgardie was re-named Dampier.
    • The member for Coolgardie, Hugh Mahon (Labor), contested Dampier.

Retiring Members and Senators

Labor

• Benjamin Bennett MP (Werriwa, NSW)

Liberal

• Alfred Deakin MP (Ballaarat, Vic)
• Richard Edwards MP (Oxley, Qld)
• Robert Harper MP (Mernda, Vic)
• Senator Simon Fraser (Vic)
• Senator James Walker (NSW)

House of Representatives

Sitting members at the time of the election are in bold. 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	Liberal Candidate	Independent Candidate(s)
Barrier	Labor	Josiah Thomas	Arthur Harrison
Calare	Labor	Thomas Brown	Henry Pigott
Cook	Labor	James Catts	David Doull	Thomas Walsh
Cowper	Liberal	Cornelius Hogan	John Thomson
Dalley	Labor	Robert Howe	Harry Scott
Darling	Labor	William Spence	Edwin Townsend
East Sydney	Labor	John West	John Willson
Eden-Monaro	Liberal	Henry Lestrange	Austin Chapman
Gwydir	Labor	William Webster	John Blackney
Hume	Independent		Robert Patten	William Lyne
Hunter	Labor	Matthew Charlton	John Fegan
Illawarra	Labor	George Burns	George Fuller
Lang	Liberal	Hector Lamond	Elliot Johnson
Macquarie	Labor	Ernest Carr	Robert Moore	Henry Fletcher
Nepean	Liberal	George Cann	Richard Orchard	Alexander Huie
Newcastle	Labor	David Watkins	Thomas Collins
New England	Labor	Francis Foster	Percy Abbott
North Sydney	Liberal	Martin Shannon	Granville Ryrie
Parkes	Liberal	William Russell	Bruce Smith
Parramatta	Liberal	Oscar Zieman	Joseph Cook
Richmond	Liberal	Percy Tighe	Walter Massy-Greene
Riverina	Labor	John Chanter	Franc Falkiner
Robertson	Liberal	William Johnson	William Fleming
South Sydney	Labor	Edward Riley	Douglas Cooper
Wentworth	Liberal	Sydney Green	William Kelly
Werriwa	Labor	Alfred Cornish	Alfred Conroy
West Sydney	Labor	Billy Hughes	John Sutton

Queensland

Electorate	Held by	Labor Candidate	Liberal Candidate
Brisbane	Labor	William Finlayson	Osborne Fenwick
Capricornia	Labor	William Higgs	Francis Dyer
Darling Downs	Liberal	Frank Allen	Littleton Groom
Herbert	Labor	Fred Bamford	John Mann
Kennedy	Labor	Charles McDonald	Edward Edwards
Lilley	Liberal	Arthur Lilley	Jacob Stumm
Maranoa	Labor	James Page	Herbert Yeates
Moreton	Liberal	John Sherlock	Hugh Sinclair
Oxley	Liberal	James Sharpe	David Hunter
Wide Bay	Labor	Andrew Fisher	Arnold Wienholt

South Australia

Electorate	Held by	Labor Candidate	Liberal Candidate	Independent Candidate(s)
Adelaide	Labor	Ernest Roberts	James Craig	Edward Craigie
Angas	Liberal		Patrick Glynn
Barker	Liberal	William Sampson	John Livingston
Boothby	Liberal	George Dankel	David Gordon
Grey	Labor	Alexander Poynton	Arthur McDonald
Hindmarsh	Labor	William Archibald
Wakefield	Liberal	William Harvey	Richard Foster

Tasmania

Electorate	Held by	Labor Candidate	Liberal Candidate	Independent Candidate(s)
Bass	Labor	Jens Jensen	Stephen Margetts
Darwin	Labor	King O'Malley	Alexander Marshall
Denison	Labor	William Laird Smith	William Trenwith	Alicia Petersen
Franklin	Liberal	William Shoobridge	William McWilliams
Wilmot	Liberal	Henry McFie	Llewellyn Atkinson

Victoria

Electorate	Held by	Labor Candidate	Liberal Candidate	Independent Candidate(s)
Balaclava	Liberal	Louis Holmes	Agar Wynne
Ballaarat	Liberal	Charles McGrath	Hugh McKay
Batman	Labor	Frank Brennan	Frederick O'Neill
Bendigo	Liberal	John Arthur	John Quick	Cyril James
Bourke	Labor	Frank Anstey	Alexander Robb
Corangamite	Labor	James Scullin	Chester Manifold
Corio	Labor	Alfred Ozanne	William Kendell	John Reed
Echuca	Liberal	Christopher Fitzgerald	Albert Palmer	Egbert England
Fawkner	Labor	Joseph Hannan	George Fairbairn
Flinders	Liberal	David Russell	William Irvine
Gippsland	Independent		James Bennett	George Wise
Grampians	Labor	Archibald Stewart	Hans Irvine
Henty	Liberal	William Miles	James Boyd	Joseph Hewison
Indi	Labor	Parker Moloney	Cornelius Ahern	Joseph Brown
Kooyong	Liberal		Robert Best	Vida Goldstein
Maribyrnong	Labor	James Fenton	James Hume Cook
Melbourne	Labor	William Maloney		Ellen Mulcahy
Melbourne Ports	Labor	James Mathews	Charles Merrett
Wannon	Labor	John McDougall	Arthur Rodgers
Wimmera	Liberal	Thomas Carey	Sydney Sampson
Yarra	Labor	Frank Tudor	Edwin Purbrick

Western Australia

Electorate	Held by	Labor Candidate	Liberal Candidate
Dampier	Liberal	Hugh Mahon	Henry Gregory
Fremantle	Liberal	Reginald Burchell	William Hedges
Kalgoorlie	Labor	Charles Frazer
Perth	Liberal	Alick McCallum	James Fowler
Swan	Liberal	Peter O'Loghlen	John Forrest

Senate

Sitting senators are in bold. 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 Liberal Party was defending three seats.

Labor Candidates	Liberal Candidates	Independent Candidates
John Grant Isaac Smith David Watson	Albert Gould* Edward Millen* Charles Oakes*	Thomas Batho James Moroney Henry Ostler

Queensland

Three seats were up for election. The Liberal Party was defending three seats.

Labor Candidates	Liberal Candidates
Myles Ferricks* William Maughan* John Mullan*	Thomas Chataway Robert Sayers Anthony St Ledger

South Australia

Three seats were up for election. The Liberal Party was defending three seats.

Labor Candidates	Liberal Candidates	Independent Candidates
John Newland* James O'Loghlin* William Senior*	Peter Allen John Shannon Joseph Vardon	Josiah Symon

Tasmania

Three seats were up for election. The Liberal Party was defending three seats.

Labor Candidates	Liberal Candidates	Independent Candidates
James Guy James Hurst James Ogden	Thomas Bakhap* John Clemons* John Keating*	Cyril Cameron

Victoria

Three seats were up for election. The Liberal Party was defending two seats. The Labor Party was defending one seat.

Labor Candidates	Liberal Candidates	Independent Candidates
John Barnes* Andrew McKissock* Edward Russell*	James McColl Samuel Mauger Charles Salmon	William Renwick

Western Australia

Three seats were up for election. The Labor Party was defending three seats.

Labor Candidates	Liberal Candidates
Patrick Lynch* Ted Needham* George Pearce*	William Butcher Charles Davies William Nairn

See also

• Australian federal election, 1913
• Members of the Australian House of Representatives, 1910–1913
• Members of the Australian House of Representatives, 1913–1914
• Members of the Australian Senate, 1910–1913
• Members of the Australian Senate, 1913–1914
• List of political parties in Australia

References

• Adam Carr's Election Archive - House of Representatives 1913
• Adam Carr's Election Archive - Senate 1913

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