Candidates of the Victorian state election, 1927

This is a list of candidates who stood for the 1927 Victorian state election. The election was held on 9 April 1927.

Seat changes

• Abbotsford Labor MLA Gordon Webber contested Heidelberg.
• Ballarat East Labor MLA William McAdam contested Ballarat.
• Ballarat West Nationalist MLA Matthew Baird contested Ballarat.
• Bendigo West Labor MLA Arthur Cook contested Bendigo.
• Boroondara Nationalist MLA Edmund Greenwood contested Nunawading.
• Bulla Labor MLA Ralph Hjorth contested Grant.
• Castlemaine and Maldon Nationalist MLA Harry Lawson contested Castlemaine and Kyneton.
• Dalhousie Labor MLA Reg Pollard contested Bulla and Dalhousie.
• Daylesford Labor MLA James McDonald contested Mildura.
• Eaglehawk Country Progressive MLA Albert Dunstan contested Eaglehawk.
• East Melbourne Nationalist MLA Alfred Farthing contested Caulfield.
• Essendon Labor MLA Frank Keane contested Coburg.
• Fitzroy Labor MLA Maurice Blackburn contested Clifton Hill.
• Glenelg Labor MLA Ernie Bond contested Port Fairy and Glenelg.
• Grenville Labor MLA Arthur Hughes contested Hampden.
• Jika Jika Labor MLA John Cain contested Northcote.
• Kara Kara Nationalist MLA John Pennington contested Kara Kara and Borung.
• Korong Country MLA Isaac Weaver contested Korong and Eaglehawk.
• Maryborough Labor MLA George Frost contested Maryborough and Daylesford.
• North Melbourne Labor MLA George Prendergast contested Footscray.
• Port Fairy Labor MLA Henry Bailey contested Warrnambool.
• Wangaratta Country MLA Sir John Bowser contested Wangaratta and Ovens.
• Warrenheip Labor MLA Edmond Hogan contested Warrenheip and Grenville.

Retiring Members

• Note: Warrnambool Nationalist MLA James Deany died a month before the election; no by-election was held due to the proximity of the general election.

Labor

• Luke Clough MLA (Bendigo East)

Nationalist

• Alfred Billson MLA (Ovens)
• John Gordon MLA (Waranga)

Country

• David Allison MLA (Borung)

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 candidates	Nationalist candidates	Country candidates	Other candidates
Albert Park	Labor	Arthur Wallace	Robert Cuthbertson		Charles Merrett (Lib)
Allandale	Nationalist	William McGrath	Sir Alexander Peacock
Ballarat	Labor	William McAdam	Matthew Baird
Barwon	Nationalist	John Jensen	Edward Morley
Benalla	Country			Patrick Connell	John Carlisle (Ind) Edward Cleary* (CPP)
Benambra	Nationalist		Henry Beardmore
Bendigo	Labor	Arthur Cook	William Ewing
Boroondara	Nationalist	Robert Dodman	Richard Linton		David Evans (Ind) Victor Ginn (Lib) Louis Holmes (Ind Nat) Robert Sylvester (Ind Nat)
Brighton	Liberal				Oswald Snowball (Ind Nat)
Brunswick	Labor	James Jewell	Leonard Smith
Bulla and Dalhousie	Labor	Reg Pollard	Andrew Rowan	Alexander Wilson	John Murphy (Lib)
Carlton	Labor	Robert Solly			Roderick McSolvin (Lib)
Castlemaine and Kyneton	Nationalist	Joseph Hannan	Harry Lawson
Caulfield	Nationalist		Alfred Farthing		Frederick Forrest* (Lib) John Packer (Lib)
Clifton Hill	Labor	Maurice Blackburn	Charles Miller
Coburg	Labor	Frank Keane	Henry Richards
Collingwood	Labor	Tom Tunnecliffe	Ralph Stredwick
Dandenong	Nationalist	James O'Keefe	Frank Groves		Archibald Wilson (Lib)
Dundas	Labor	Bill Slater	Gilbert Smith
Essendon	Labor	Arthur Drakeford	Robert Gilbertson
Evelyn	Liberal	Edward Hodges			William Everard* (Ind Nat) Joseph Smith (Lib)
Flemington	Labor	Jack Holland	Arthur Fenton
Footscray	Labor	George Prendergast
Geelong	Labor	William Brownbill	Julius Solomon
Gippsland East	Country			Albert Lind	Frederick Blight (Ind)
Gippsland North	Independent			John Buchan	James McLachlan (Ind)
Gippsland South	Nationalist	Michael Buckley	Walter West	Thomas Anderson David White	Henry Bodman (Ind)
Gippsland West	Country	Thomas Houlihan	James Wilson	Arthur Walter	Arthur a'Beckett (Ind) John Dowd (CPP) Robert Garlick (Lib)
Goulburn Valley	Country			Murray Bourchier
Grant	Labor	Ralph Hjorth	Francis Connelly	David Gibson	James Farrer (Ind)
Gunbower	Liberal				Henry Angus* (Ind Nat) Farquhar Matheson (CPP)
Hampden	Nationalist	Arthur Hughes	David Oman
Hawthorn	Nationalist	Edward Cummins	Sir William McPherson
Heidelberg	Labor	Gordon Webber	Henry Zwar
Kara Kara and Borung	Nationalist		John Pennington	William Pearce	Finlay Cameron (CPP)
Kew	Nationalist	Frederick Riley	Edward Reynolds		William Clark (Lib) Wilfrid Kent Hughes* (Prog Nat)
Korong and Eaglehawk	Country			Isaac Weaver	Albert Dunstan (CPP)
Lowan	Country			Marcus Wettenhall	George Clyne (CPP)
Maryborough and Daylesford	Labor	George Frost	Edmund Jowett
Melbourne	Labor	Tom Hayes			Carlyle Ferguson (Lib)
Mildura	Labor	James McDonald		James Lochhead	Albert Allnutt (CPP)
Mornington	Country		Alfred Kirton	Alfred Downward	Cyril Croskell (Lib)
Northcote	Labor	John Cain
Nunawading	Nationalist	John Toohey	Edmund Greenwood* Garnet Soilleux		Robert Halliday (Lib) Stephen Thompson (Lib)
Oakleigh	Labor	Squire Reid	Robert Knox		Thomas Riley (Lib)
Ouyen	Country	Francis Williamson		Henry Pickering	Harold Glowrey (CPP)
Polwarth	Nationalist		James McDonald
Port Fairy and Glenelg	Labor	Ernie Bond	William Shaw
Port Melbourne	Labor	James Murphy
Prahran	Labor	Arthur Jackson	Thomas White
Richmond	Labor	Ted Cotter
Rodney	Country			John Allan	Percy Bryce (Lib) Frederick Churches (CPP)
St Kilda	Nationalist		Frederic Eggleston		Burnett Gray* (Lib) Florence Johnson (Ind Lab)
Stawell and Ararat	Nationalist	Robert McCracken	Richard Toutcher
Swan Hill	Country			Francis Old	Ernest Gray (CPP) William Sullivan (Ind)
Toorak	Nationalist	Charles Cope	Stanley Argyle		Horace Mason (Lib)
Upper Goulburn	Country	Edward Withers	George Wilson	Edwin Mackrell
Upper Yarra	Nationalist	Henry Courtney	George Knox	John Dedman	Henry Glynn (Ind) George Ingram (Lib) John Mahony (Ind Nat)
Walhalla	Nationalist	James Bermingham	Samuel Barnes	William Moncur
Wangaratta and Ovens	Country			Sir John Bowser* Lot Diffey	William Higgins (Lib)
Waranga	Nationalist	Gerald Honan	Ernest Coyle* Henry Thomas	John McKee
Warrenheip and Grenville	Labor	Edmond Hogan	Robert McGregor
Warrnambool	Nationalist	Henry Bailey	James Swan		William Downing (Lib)
Williamstown	Labor	John Lemmon	Francis Wilcher
Wonthaggi	Labor	William McKenzie	William Walker	Peter Hudson Herbert Hyland	William Easton (Lib)

See also

• Victorian Legislative Council election, 1928

References

• Psephos - Adam Carr's Election Archive