Candidates of the 1959 Western Australian state election

The 1959 Western Australian state election was held on 21 March 1959.

Retiring Members

Labor

• Joseph Sleeman (MLA) (Fremantle)

Country

• Lindsay Thorn (MLA) (Toodyay)

Legislative Assembly

Sitting members 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	LCL candidate	Country candidate	Other candidates
Albany	Labor	Jack Hall	Roy Wellington	Vincent Liddelow	Charles Johnson (Ind.) Ernest Rogers (Ind.)
Avon Valley	LCL		James Mann	John Stratton
Beeloo	Labor	Colin Jamieson	Gordon Clark		Patrick Riordan (DLP)
Blackwood	LCL		John Hearman	Duncan Muir
Boulder	Labor	Arthur Moir
Bunbury	LCL	Forrest Hay	George Roberts
Canning	Labor	Bill Gaffy	Des O'Neil		Michael O'Brien (DLP)
Claremont	LCL		Harold Crommelin
Collie	Labor	Harry May			Norman Coote (Ind.)
Cottesloe	LCL	Edmund Edwards	Ross Hutchinson
Dale	LCL		Gerald Wild	Arthur Mills Andrew McPhail	William Williams (Ind.)
Darling Range	Country	Henry Harris	John Kostera	Ray Owen	Michael Coyne (DLP)
East Perth	Labor	Herb Graham	John Martin		John Deane (DLP)
Eyre	Labor	Emil Nulsen	Orlando Stuart
Fremantle	Labor	Harry Fletcher			Henry Miller (DLP) Paddy Troy (Comm.)
Gascoyne	Labor	Daniel Norton	Thomas Orr
Geraldton	Labor	Bill Sewell	Gerald Throssell		Septimus Waldon (DLP)
Greenough	LCL		David Brand
Guildford-Midland	Labor	John Brady			John Gandini (Comm.)
Harvey	LCL		Iven Manning
Kalgoorlie	Labor	Tom Evans	Percy Millington		Harold Illingworth (Ind.)
Katanning	Country			Crawford Nalder
Kimberley	Labor	John Rhatigan	Nolan McDaniel
Leederville	Labor	Ted Johnson	Guy Henn		John Antill (DLP)
Maylands	Labor	Merv Toms	Walter Bonnett
Melville	Labor	John Tonkin
Merredin-Yilgarn	Labor	Lionel Kelly	Ronald Lee
Middle Swan	Labor	James Hegney	Francis Wilson		Brian Peachey (DLP)
Moore	Country			Edgar Lewis
Mount Hawthorn	Labor	Bill Hegney	Hugh O'Doherty		Edward Zeffertt (Comm.)
Mount Lawley	Independent		Alexander Barras		Edward Oldfield* (Ind.) Ernest Parker (DLP)
Mount Marshall	Country			George Cornell
Murchison	Labor	Everard O'Brien	Richard Burt		George Jensen (DLP)
Murray	LCL		Ross McLarty
Narrogin	Country	Percy Munday		William Manning
Nedlands	LCL		Charles Court
North Perth	Labor	Stan Lapham	Ray O'Connor		William Sawyer (DLP)
Northam	Labor	Albert Hawke	Lawrence Solomon		Brian McGinty (DLP)
Pilbara	Labor	Arthur Bickerton	Neil Radley
Roe	Country			Charles Perkins	Edward Biglin (Ind.)
South Fremantle	Labor	Dick Lawrence			George Kendrick (Comm.)
South Perth	Independent		George Strickland		Bill Grayden (Ind. Lib)
Stirling	Country			Arthur Watts
Subiaco	Labor	Percival Potter	Hugh Guthrie		Ronald Bulbeck (DLP)
Toodyay	Country	John Rolinson		James Craig* Joseph Farrell	John Acott (Ind. Lab)
Vasse	LCL		William Bovell		George Shervington (DLP)
Victoria Park	Labor	Ron Davies	David Hooper		Harold Hawthorne (Ind.) William Carter (DLP)
Warren	Labor	Joseph Rowberry	Walter Muir		Paul Brennan (DLP)
Wembley Beaches	Labor	Frederick Marshall	Les Nimmo		William Coyne (DLP)
West Perth	Labor	Stanley Heal	Raymond Nowland

See also

• Members of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly, 1956–1959
• Members of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly, 1959–1962
• 1960 Western Australian Legislative Council election
• 1959 Western Australian state election

References

• Prescott, David Black with the assistance of Valerie (1997). Election statistics : Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, 1890-1996. Perth, [W.A.]: Western Australian Parliamentary History Project and Western Australian Electoral Commission. ISBN 0730984095.