AuspolDB: Elections

1951 Federal Election

Electoral System	FPV
Government Type	Majority
Outgoing Government Party	Liberal
Incoming Government Party	Liberal
Government Seats	69
Nongovernment Seats	54
Majority The difference between the number of Government seats and non-government seats.	15
Date	10/12/1951
House Composition	54 Australian Labor Party 52 Liberal 17 The Nationals/Country Party

Candidate	Party	Electorate	Votes	Swing	Status
Arthur Fuller	Australian Labor Party	Hume	18849	1.30	Incoming
Patrick Galvin	Australian Labor Party	Kingston	24834	2.20	Incoming
Alfred Dohring	Australian Labor Party	Maranoa	11989	-2.70	Incoming
Donald Mcleod	Australian Labor Party	Wannon	18427	4.00	Incoming
Henry Bruce	Australian Labor Party	Leichhardt	16827	6.70	Incoming
Frank Crean	Australian Labor Party	Melbourne Ports	26502	3.30	Incoming
Aubrey Luck	Liberal	Darwin	14819	-6.90	Incoming
James Fraser	Australian Labor Party	Australian Capital Territory	5905	6.70	Incoming
Robert Joshua	Australian Labor Party	Ballaarat	20482	1.60	Incoming
Francis Bland	Liberal	Warringah	29362	5.40	Incoming
Billy Snedden	Liberal	Perth	17705	3.10	Incoming
Charles Anderson	The Nationals/Country Party	Hume	18622	-1.30	Outgoing
Herbert Handby	Liberal	Kingston	23614	-0.30	Outgoing
Thomas Gilmore	The Nationals/Country Party	Leichhardt	16163	-2.50	Outgoing
Thomas Burke	Australian Labor Party	Perth	17501	1.20	Outgoing
Charles Russell	Independent	Maranoa	9502	0.00	Outgoing
Daniel Mackinnon	Liberal	Wannon	17601	12.00	Outgoing
Alan Pittard	Liberal	Ballaarat	19517	-1.60	Outgoing
Lewis Nott	Independent	Australian Capital Territory	3265	-3.50	Outgoing

Name	Jurisdiction	Type
Adelaide	SA	Division
Angas	SA	Division
Australian Capital Territory	ACT	Division
Balaclava	VIC	Division
Ballaarat	VIC	Division
Banks	NSW	Division
Barker	SA	Division
Barton	NSW	Division
Bass	TAS	Division
Batman	VIC	Division
Bendigo	VIC	Division
Bennelong	NSW	Division
Blaxland	NSW	Division
Boothby	SA	Division
Bowman	QLD	Division
Bradfield	NSW	Division
Brisbane	QLD	Division
Burke	VIC	Division
Calare	NSW	Division
Canning	WA	Division
Capricornia	QLD	Division
Chisholm	VIC	Division
Cook	NSW	Division
Corangamite	VIC	Division
Corio	VIC	Division
Cowper	NSW	Division
Cunningham	NSW	Division
Curtin	WA	Division
Dalley	NSW	Division
Darebin	VIC	Division
Darling	NSW	Division
Darling Downs	QLD	Division
Darwin	TAS	Division
Dawson	QLD	Division
Deakin	VIC	Division
Denison	TAS	Division
East Sydney	NSW	Division
Eden-Monaro	NSW	Division
Evans	NSW	Division
Farrer	NSW	Division
Fawkner	VIC	Division
Fisher	QLD	Division
Flinders	VIC	Division
Forrest	WA	Division
Franklin	TAS	Division
Fremantle	WA	Division
Gellibrand	VIC	Division
Gippsland	VIC	Division
Grayndler	NSW	Division
Grey	SA	Division
Griffith	QLD	Division
Gwydir	NSW	Division
Henty	VIC	Division
Herbert	QLD	Division
Higgins	VIC	Division
Higinbotham	VIC	Division
Hindmarsh	SA	Division
Hoddle	VIC	Division
Hume	NSW	Division
Hunter	NSW	Division
Indi	VIC	Division
Isaacs	VIC	Division
Kalgoorlie	WA	Division
Kennedy	QLD	Division
Kingsford Smith	NSW	Division
Kingston	SA	Division
Kooyong	VIC	Division
La Trobe	VIC	Division
Lalor	VIC	Division
Lang	NSW	Division
Lawson	NSW	Division
Leichhardt	QLD	Division
Lilley	QLD	Division
Lowe	NSW	Division
Lyne	NSW	Division
Macarthur	NSW	Division
Mackellar	NSW	Division
Macquarie	NSW	Division
Mallee	VIC	Division
Maranoa	QLD	Division
Maribyrnong	VIC	Division
Martin	NSW	Division
McMillan	VIC	Division
McPherson	QLD	Division
Melbourne	VIC	Division
Melbourne Ports	VIC	Division
Mitchell	NSW	Division
Moore	WA	Division
Moreton	QLD	Division
Murray	VIC	Division
New England	NSW	Division
Newcastle	NSW	Division
North Sydney	NSW	Division
Northern Territory	NT	Division
Oxley	QLD	Division
Parkes	NSW	Division
Parramatta	NSW	Division
Paterson	NSW	Division
Perth	WA	Division
Petrie	QLD	Division
Phillip	NSW	Division
Port Adelaide	SA	Division
Reid	NSW	Division
Richmond	NSW	Division
Riverina	NSW	Division
Robertson	NSW	Division
Ryan	QLD	Division
Shortland	NSW	Division
St George	NSW	Division
Sturt	SA	Division
Swan	WA	Division
Wakefield	SA	Division
Wannon	VIC	Division
Warringah	NSW	Division
Watson	NSW	Division
Wentworth	NSW	Division
Werriwa	NSW	Division
West Sydney	NSW	Division
Wide Bay	QLD	Division
Wills	VIC	Division
Wilmot	TAS	Division
Wimmera	VIC	Division
Yarra	VIC	Division

Candidate	Party	State	Votes	Elected
Richard Dixon	Communist	NSW	54902	No
James Healy	Communist	NSW	2356	No
Joseph Bailes	Communist	NSW	836	No
Edgar Ross	Communist	NSW	1197	No
Mary Simm	Communist	NSW	738	No
Cecil Connors	Communist	NSW	1684	No
Ronald Sarina	Protestant People`s Party	NSW	11733	No
James Fowler	Protestant People`s Party	NSW	1357	No
William Ashley	Australian Labor Party	NSW	748924	Yes (2)
John Armstrong	Australian Labor Party	NSW	4511	Yes (4)
James Arnold	Australian Labor Party	NSW	1336	Yes (6)
Donald Grant	Australian Labor Party	NSW	2268	Yes (8)
Stanley Amour	Australian Labor Party	NSW	1812	Yes (10)
William Large	Australian Labor Party	NSW	1537	No
William Spooner	Liberal	NSW	801544	Yes (1)
Albert Reid	The Nationals/Country Party	NSW	3163	Yes (3)
John Mccallum	Liberal	NSW	2485	Yes (5)
John Tate	Liberal	NSW	758	Yes (7)
Alister Mcmullin	Liberal	NSW	602	Yes (9)
Thelma Kirkby	The Nationals/Country Party	NSW	5290	No
Edward Spensley	Independent	NSW	3069	No
Robert Anstee	Independent	NSW	3514	No
Jack Lang	Lang Labor	NSW	60549	No
William Webb	Independent	NSW	1345	No
Don Cameron	Australian Labor Party	VIC	615098	Yes (1)
Charles Sandford	Australian Labor Party	VIC	1759	Yes (3)
James Sheehan	Australian Labor Party	VIC	2741	Yes (5)
John Devlin	Australian Labor Party	VIC	1285	Yes (7)
Albion Hendrickson	Australian Labor Party	VIC	821	Yes (9)
Frederick Katz	Australian Labor Party	VIC	1187	No
Ralph Gibson	Communist	VIC	16645	No
William Bird	Communist	VIC	508	No
William Tregear	Communist	VIC	204	No
Agnes Doig	Communist	VIC	179	No
Ted Bull	Communist	VIC	122	No
Arthur O`Donoghue	Communist	VIC	606	No
John Spicer	Liberal	VIC	585694	Yes (2)
George Rankin	The Nationals/Country Party	VIC	3395	Yes (4)
John Gorton	Liberal	VIC	643	Yes (6)
Ivy Wedgwood	Liberal	VIC	1822	Yes (8)
Magnus Cormack	Liberal	VIC	430	Yes (10)
William Moss	The Nationals/Country Party	VIC	2298	No
Leslie Bawden	Henry George Justice Party	VIC	4614	No
Lancelot Hutchinson	Henry George Justice Party	VIC	447	No
Walter Tindall	Henry George Justice Party	VIC	954	No
Walter Cooper	The Nationals/Country Party	QLD	358028	Yes (1)
Neil O`Sullivan	Liberal	QLD	2312	Yes (3)
Annabelle Rankin	Liberal	QLD	3464	Yes (5)
Edmund Maher	The Nationals/Country Party	QLD	1019	Yes (7)
Ian Wood	Liberal	QLD	1173	Yes (9)
Roy Kendall	Liberal	QLD	764	Yes (10)
Fred Paterson	Communist	QLD	8276	No
Max Julius	Communist	QLD	164	No
Alexander Macdonald	Communist	QLD	204	No
William Falls	Communist	QLD	66	No
Thomas Millar	Communist	QLD	71	No
James Peterson	Communist	QLD	215	No
Benjamin Courtice	Australian Labor Party	QLD	255437	Yes (2)
Archibald Benn	Australian Labor Party	QLD	397	Yes (4)
Gordon Brown	Australian Labor Party	QLD	1113	Yes (6)
Condon Byrne	Australian Labor Party	QLD	633	Yes (8)
Samuel Martin	Australian Labor Party	QLD	209	No
Robert Elliott	Australian Labor Party	QLD	1281	No
John Barnes	Independent	QLD	7437	No
Clifford Banks	Independent	QLD	2794	No
Agnes Robertson	Liberal	WA	137247	Yes (1)
Victor Vincent	Liberal	WA	4023	Yes (3)
Edmund Piesse	The Nationals/Country Party	WA	3950	Yes (5)
Malcolm Scott	Liberal	WA	1146	Yes (7)
Harrie Seward	The Nationals/Country Party	WA	2662	Yes (9)
Shane Paltridge	Liberal	WA	1719	Yes (10)
Kevin Healy	Communist	WA	2174	No
Patricia Hurd	Communist	WA	126	No
John Coleman	Communist	WA	243	No
Dorothy Tangney	Australian Labor Party	WA	114628	Yes (2)
Donald Willesee	Australian Labor Party	WA	1721	Yes (4)
James Fraser	Australian Labor Party	WA	1408	Yes (6)
Richard Nash	Australian Labor Party	WA	1078	Yes (8)
Joseph Cooke	Australian Labor Party	WA	1377	No
John Harris	Australian Labor Party	WA	1056	No
Carlyle Ferguson	All Parties Government League	WA	2149	No
Robert Salter	Independent	WA	502	No
Edward Mattner	Liberal	SA	190874	Yes (2)
George Mcleay	Liberal	SA	5422	Yes (3)
Douglas Hannaford	Liberal	SA	1120	Yes (5)
Rex Pearson	Liberal	SA	1171	Yes (7)
Keith Laught	Liberal	SA	558	Yes (9)
Basil Proctor	Liberal	SA	871	No
Sidney O`Flaherty	Australian Labor Party	SA	194637	Yes (1)
Theophilus Nicholls	Australian Labor Party	SA	1250	Yes (4)
John Critchley	Australian Labor Party	SA	980	Yes (6)
Alexander Finlay	Australian Labor Party	SA	502	Yes (8)
John Ryan	Australian Labor Party	SA	426	Yes (10)
Frederick Ward	Australian Labor Party	SA	1749	No
Henry Schneider	Independent	SA	678	No
John Sendy	Communist	SA	1467	No
John Gartner	Independent	SA	1096	No
John Chamberlain	Liberal	TAS	22303	Yes (2)
James Guy	Liberal	TAS	8948	Yes (4)
Denham Henty	Liberal	TAS	6343	Yes (5)
John Marriott	Liberal	TAS	5111	No
Robert Wordsworth	Liberal	TAS	5063	Yes (10)
Reginald Wright	Liberal	TAS	25272	Yes (1)
William Lynch	Communist	TAS	451	No
Max Bound	Communist	TAS	127	No
William Morrow	Australian Labor Party	TAS	9814	Yes (7)
Nicholas Mckenna	Australian Labor Party	TAS	19687	Yes (3)
Charles Lamp	Australian Labor Party	TAS	3253	No
Justin O`Byrne	Australian Labor Party	TAS	8530	Yes (9)
William Aylett	Australian Labor Party	TAS	7829	Yes (8)
George Cole	Australian Labor Party	TAS	11149	Yes (6)
Reginald Murray	Australian Labor Party	TAS	6328	No

1951 Federal Election

Incoming/Outgoing Members

Lower House

Upper House