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This article provides information on candidates who stood for the 1955 Australian federal election. The election was held on 10 December 1955.
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.
Electorate | Held by | Labor candidate | Liberal candidate |
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Australian Capital Territory | Labor | Jim Fraser | Robert Greenish |
Electorate | Held by | Labor candidate |
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Northern Territory | Labor | Jock Nelson |
Electorate | Held by | Labor candidate | Liberal candidate | Other candidates |
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Adelaide | Labor | Cyril Chambers | James Maitland | Olaf Alland (ALPAC) Jim Moss (CPA) |
Angas | Liberal | Darcy Nielsen | Alick Downer | Frank Rieck (Ind) |
Barker | Liberal | Ralph Dettman | Archie Cameron | |
Bonython | Labor | Norman Makin | John Mathwin | |
Boothby | Liberal | Rex Mathews | John McLeay | John Sutherland (ALPAC) |
Grey | Labor | Edgar Russell | George Bockelberg | |
Hindmarsh | Labor | Clyde Cameron | Frank Potter | Francis Moran (ALPAC) |
Kingston | Labor | Pat Galvin | Jim Forbes | |
Port Adelaide | Labor | Albert Thompson | Peter Symon (CPA) | |
Sturt | Liberal | Frederick Hansford | Keith Wilson | |
Wakefield | Liberal | Robert Bruce | Sir Philip McBride | Hector Henstridge (Ind) |
Electorate | Held by | Labor candidate | Liberal candidate | Other candidates |
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Bass | Labor | Lance Barnard | Frederick White | Leslie Duke (ALPAC) |
Braddon | Liberal | Reg Murray | Aubrey Luck | |
Denison | Liberal | Brian Miller | Athol Townley | Max Bound (CPA) |
Franklin | Liberal | Brian Crawford | Bill Falkinder | Henry Roberts (ALPAC) |
Wilmot | Labor | Gil Duthie | Robert Bethell | Owen Doherty (ALPAC) |
Electorate | Held by | Labor candidate | Coalition candidate | Other candidates |
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Canning | Country | Len Hamilton (CP) | ||
Curtin | Liberal | Paul Hasluck (Lib) | ||
Forrest | Liberal | Gordon Freeth (Lib) | ||
Fremantle | Labor | Kim Beazley | Vernon Hubbard (Lib) | Paddy Troy (CPA) |
Kalgoorlie | Labor | Herbert Johnson | Harold Illingworth (Ind) | |
Moore | Country | Hugh Leslie (CP) | ||
Perth | Labor | Tom Burke | Fred Chaney (Lib) | |
Stirling | Labor | Harry Webb | Frederick Payne (Lib) | |
Swan | Liberal | Thomas Williams | Richard Cleaver (Lib) |
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 (*).
Five seats were up for election. The Labor Party was defending two seats. The Liberal-Country Coalition was defending three seats. Senators Stan Amour (Labor), Ken Anderson (Liberal), James Arnold (Labor), Donald Grant (Labor) and Alister McMullin (Liberal) were not up for re-election.
Labor candidates | Coalition candidates | Communist candidates | Ungrouped candidates |
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Donald Skelton |
Five seats were up for election. The Labor Party was defending two seats. The Liberal-Country Coalition was defending three seats. Senators Gordon Brown (Labor), Condon Byrne (Labor), Roy Kendall (Liberal), Ted Maher (Country) and Ian Wood (Liberal) were not up for re-election.
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Five seats were up for election. The Labor Party was defending two seats. The Liberal Party was defending three seats. Senators Jack Critchley (Labor), Keith Laught (Liberal), Rex Pearson (Liberal), John Ryan (Labor) and Jim Toohey (Labor) were not up for re-election.
Labor candidates | Liberal candidates | Anti-Communist candidates | Communist candidates |
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Five seats were up for election. The Labor Party was defending one seat. The Liberal Party was defending four seats. Senators Bill Aylett (Labor), George Cole (Labor), John Marriott (Liberal), Justin O'Byrne (Labor) and Robert Wordsworth (Liberal) were not up for re-election.
Labor candidates | Liberal candidates | Anti-Communist candidates | Ungrouped candidates |
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Five seats were up for election. The Labor Party was defending three seats. The Liberal-Country Coalition was defending two seats. Senators Jack Devlin (Labor), John Gorton (Liberal), Bert Hendrickson (Labor), Pat Kennelly (Labor) and Ivy Wedgwood (Liberal) were not up for re-election.
Labor candidates | Coalition candidates | Anti-Communist candidates | Communist candidates | HGJP candidates | Ungrouped candidates |
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John Dunstan |
Five seats were up for election. The Labor Party was defending two seats. The Liberal Party was defending three seats (although Senator Agnes Robertson had defected to the Country Party). Senators Joe Cooke (Labor), James Fraser (Labor), John Harris (Labor), Malcolm Scott (Liberal) and Harrie Seward (Country) were not up for re-election.
Labor candidates | Liberal candidates | Country candidates | Anti-Communist candidates | Communist candidates |
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PEP candidates | Ungrouped candidates | |||
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Carlyle Ferguson (APA) |
Beside each party is the number of seats contested by that party in the House of Representatives for each state, as well as an indication of whether the party contested Senate elections in each state.
Party | NSW | Vic | Qld | WA | SA | Tas | ACT | NT | Total | |||||||
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HR | S | HR | S | HR | S | HR | S | HR | S | HR | S | HR | HR | HR | S | |
Australian Labor Party | 42 | * | 33 | * | 15 | * | 5 | * | 11 | * | 5 | * | 1 | 1 | 113 | 6 |
Liberal Party of Australia | 38 | * | 30 | * | 10 | * | 6 | * | 10 | * | 5 | * | 1 | 100 | 6 | |
Australian Country Party | 9 | * | 3 | * | 8 | * | 2 | * | 22 | 4 | ||||||
Australian Labor Party (Anti-Communist) | 33 | * | * | 3 | * | 3 | * | 39 | 4 | |||||||
Communist Party of Australia | 14 | * | 4 | * | 6 | * | 1 | * | 2 | * | 1 | 28 | 5 | |||
Henry George Justice Party | * | 1 | ||||||||||||||
Progress Enterprise Party | * | 1 | ||||||||||||||
All Parties Administration | * | 1 | ||||||||||||||
Independent and other | 8 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 12 | |||||||||||
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