Candidates of the 1950 Western Australian state election

The 1950 Western Australian state election was held on 25 March 1950.

Retiring Members

Labor

• Frederick Smith (MLA) (Brown Hill-Ivanhoe)

LCL

• Ross McDonald (MLA) (West Perth)

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	Country	William Martin	Alistair MacDonald	Leonard Hill	James Bolitho (Ind.)
Avon Valley	LCL		James Mann	Keith Halbert Milford Smith
Blackwood	LCL	William Eastcott	John Hearman	Alwyn Wagner	John Smith (Ind.)
Boulder	Labor	Charlie Oliver
Bunbury	LCL	Frank Guthrie	James Murray	Percy Payne
Canning	LCL	Alfred Reynolds	Arthur Griffith		Carlyle Ferguson (Ind. Country)
Claremont	LCL		Charles North
Collie	Labor	Harry May
Cottesloe	LCL	John Vivian	Ross Hutchinson
Dale	LCL	Ronald Knowler	Gerald Wild	John Ellis
Darling Range	Country	John Rolinson	Colin Cameron	Ray Owen* Frederick Schoch
East Perth	Labor	Herb Graham	Fred Book
Eyre	Labor	Emil Nulsen	Roy Cunningham
Fremantle	Labor	Joseph Sleeman	Lennox Dickson		Kathleen Duff (Ind. Labor) Kevin Healy (Comm.)
Gascoyne	Labor	Frank Wise	Noel Butcher
Geraldton	Country	Bill Sewell		Edmund Hall
Greenough	LCL		David Brand
Guildford-Midland	Labor	John Brady	Irene Seaton		Alexander Jolly (Comm.)
Hannans	Labor	Herbert McCulloch	Roy Cunningham
Harvey	LCL	Robert McCallum	Iven Manning	Walter Eckersley
Kalgoorlie	Labor	Herbert Styants	Albert Rogers
Katanning	Country			Crawford Nalder* Wilhelm Beeck
Kimberley	Labor	Aubrey Coverley
Leederville	Labor	Alexander Panton	George Melville
Maylands	Independent	John Gaffney			Harry Shearn (Ind.)
Melville	Labor	John Tonkin	Helen Brinkley
Merredin-Yilgarn	Labor	Lionel Kelly	Charles Davies
Middle Swan	LCL	James Hegney	Henry Hawkins
Moore	Country			John Ackland
Mount Hawthorn	Labor	Bill Hegney	John Mann		John Plummer-Leitch (Ind. Labor)
Mount Lawley	LCL		Arthur Abbott		James Collins (Ind.)
Mount Marshall	Country			George Cornell
Murchison	Labor	William Marshall
Murray	LCL	Charles Cross	Ross McLarty
Narrogin	Country			Victor Doney
Nedlands	LCL		Norbert Keenan Cyril Bird		David Grayden* (Ind. Liberal) John Symonds (Ind. Liberal)
North Perth	LCL	Ted Needham	Alfred Spencer
Northam	Labor	Albert Hawke		Thomas Letch
Pilbara	Labor	Alec Rodoreda	Leonard Taplin
Roe	Country	Percy Munday		Charles Perkins* Harrie Seward
South Fremantle	Labor	Thomas Fox
South Perth	LCL	Samuel Lynn	George Yates
Stirling	Country			Arthur Watts
Subiaco	LCL	Thomas Henley	Florence Cardell-Oliver
Toodyay	Country	Archibald McNess		Lindsay Thorn
Vasse	LCL		William Bovell	Robert Leiper
Victoria Park	Independent	Hugh Andrew			William Read (Ind.)
Warren	Labor	Ernest Hoar
Wembley Beaches	LCL	Richard Knox	Les Nimmo
West Perth	LCL	Lucien Triat	Joseph Totterdell

See also

• Members of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly, 1947–1950
• Members of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly, 1950–1953
• 1950 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.