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1934


Senate

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 (*).

New South Wales

Three seats were up for election. The Labor Party was defending three seats (although Senators Dunn and Rae had joined the Lang Labor breakaway). United Australia Party Senators Charles Cox and Sir Walter Massy-Greene and Country Party Senator Charles Hardy were not up for re-election.

Labor candidates Coalition candidates NSW Labor candidates Social Credit candidates Other candidates




 
Gordon Anderson
John Dooley
Alex Hogan
Mac Abbott* (CP)
Lionel Courtenay* (UAP)
Dick Dein* (UAP)
James Dunn
Patrick Mooney
Arthur Rae
Stanley Allen
Lillie Beirne
John White
Lance Sharkey (CPA)

Queensland

Three seats were up for election. The United Australia Party was defending three seats. Labor Senators Gordon Brown, Joe Collings and John MacDonald were not up for re-election.

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Frank Byrne
Robert Carroll
Lewis McDonald
Walter Cooper* (CP)
Thomas Crawford* (UAP)
Harry Foll* (UAP)
John Harding
William Hartley
Joanna Helbach
Theo Kissick (Ind Lab)
Fred Paterson (CPA)
Sydney Williams (LL)

South Australia

Three seats were up for election. The Labor Party was defending three seats. United Australia Party Senators Jack Duncan-Hughes and Alexander McLachlan and Country Party Senator Oliver Badman were not up for re-election.

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Edgar Dawes
Bert Hoare
Mick O'Halloran
James McLachlan*
George McLeay*
Oliver Uppill*
Ted Moyle (CPA)

Tasmania

Three seats were up for election. The United Australia Party was defending three seats. Note that, apart from Group A, all candidates appeared in the ungrouped column. United Australia Party Senators John Millen, Herbert Payne and Burford Sampson were not up for re-election.

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Eric Howroyd
Henry Lane
John Palamountain
Basil Plummer
Andrew Cooper
Charles Grant*
John Hayes*
Herbert Hays*
William Judd
Henry McFie
Percy Best
Stephen Broad
Alfred Seabrook
William Daft (CPA)

Victoria

Three seats were up for election. The United Australia Party-Country Party Coalition was defending two seats. The Labor Party was defending one seat. United Australia Party Senators Tom Brennan, James Guthrie and William Plain were not up for re-election.

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John Barnes
Charlie Crofts
Parker Moloney
Charles Brand* (UAP)
William Gibson* (CP)
John Leckie* (UAP)
Robert Elliott (Ind)
Gerry O'Day (CPA)

Western Australia

Three seats were up for election. The United Australia Party-Country Party Coalition was defending three seats. United Australia Party Senators Patrick Lynch and Sir George Pearce and Country Party Senator William Carroll were not up for re-election.

Labor candidates Coalition candidates Social Credit candidates Other candidates



 
Reginald Bourke
Louis Greive
Edward Holman
Herbert Collett* (UAP)
Bertie Johnston* (CP)
Allan MacDonald* (UAP)
John Clements
Ormond Cook
Alfred Jacobs
Richard Fitzgerald (Nat. Sec.)
Bill Mountjoy (CPA)
Edwin Murphy (Ind)
Oliver Strang (Nat. Sec.)