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1951

Senate

Sitting Senators are shown in bold text. Since this was a double dissolution, all senators were up for re-election, with the first five from each state elected to six-year terms and the remaining five to three-year terms. Tickets that elected at least one Senator are highlighted in the relevant colour. Successful candidates are identified by an asterisk (*).

New South Wales

Ten seats were up for election. The Labor Party was defending six seats. The Liberal-Country Coalition was defending four seats.

Labor candidates Coalition candidates Communist candidates PPP candidates Ungrouped candidates




 
  1. Bill Ashley*
  2. John Armstrong*
  3. James Arnold*
  4. Donald Grant*
  5. Stan Amour*
  6. William Large
  1. Bill Spooner* (Lib)
  2. Albert Reid* (CP)
  3. John McCallum* (Lib)
  4. John Tate* (Lib)
  5. Alister McMullin* (Lib)
  6. Thelma Kirkby (CP)
  1. Richard Dixon
  2. Jim Healy
  3. Joe Bailes
  4. Edgar Ross
  5. Nellie Simm
  6. Cecil Connors
  1. Ronald Sarina
  2. James Fowler

Edward Spensley (Ind)
Robert Anstee (Ind)
Jack Lang (LL)
William Webb (Ind)

Queensland[edit]

Ten seats were up for election. The Labor Party was defending three seats. The Liberal-Country Coalition was defending seven seats.

Labor candidates Coalition candidates Communist candidates Ungrouped candidates



 
  1. Ben Courtice*
  2. Archie Benn*
  3. Gordon Brown*
  4. Condon Byrne*
  5. Samuel Martin
  6. Austin Elliott
  1. Walter Cooper* (CP)
  2. Neil O'Sullivan* (Lib)
  3. Annabelle Rankin* (Lib)
  4. Ted Maher* (CP)
  5. Ian Wood* (Lib)
  6. Roy Kendall* (Lib)
  1. Fred Paterson
  2. Max Julius
  3. Alex Macdonald
  4. Frank Falls
  5. Tom Millar
  6. Jim Peterson

Frank Barnes
Clifford Banks

South Australia

Ten seats were up for election. The Labor Party was defending seven seats. The Liberal Party was defending three seats.

Labor candidates Liberal candidates Ungrouped candidates


 
  1. Sid O'Flaherty*
  2. Theo Nicholls*
  3. Jack Critchley*
  4. Alex Finlay*
  5. John Ryan*
  6. Frederick Ward
  1. Ted Mattner*
  2. George McLeay*
  3. Clive Hannaford*
  4. Rex Pearson*
  5. Keith Laught*
  6. Basil Proctor

Henry Schneider
John Sendy (CPA)
John Gartner

Tasmania

Ten seats were up for election. The Labor Party was defending six seats. The Liberal Party was defending four seats.

Labor candidates Liberal candidates Communist candidates


 
  1. Bill Morrow*
  2. Nick McKenna*
  3. Charles Lamp
  4. Justin O'Byrne*
  5. Bill Aylett*
  6. George Cole*
  7. Reg Murray
  1. Jack Chamberlain*
  2. Allan Guy*
  3. Denham Henty*
  4. John Marriott
  5. Robert Wordsworth*
  6. Reg Wright*
  1. Jack Lynch
  2. Max Bound

Victoria

Ten seats were up for election. The Labor Party was defending six seats. The Liberal-Country Coalition was defending four seats.

Labor candidates Coalition candidates Communist candidates HGJP candidates



 
  1. Don Cameron*
  2. Charles Sandford*
  3. Jim Sheehan*
  4. Jack Devlin*
  5. Bert Hendrickson*
  6. Fred Katz
  1. John Spicer* (Lib)
  2. George Rankin* (CP)
  3. John Gorton* (Lib)
  4. Ivy Wedgwood* (Lib)
  5. Magnus Cormack* (Lib)
  6. William Moss (CP)
  1. Ralph Gibson
  2. Bill Bird
  3. Bill Tregear
  4. Agnes Doig
  5. Ted Bull
  6. Paddy O'Donoghue
  1. Leslie Bawden
  2. Lance Hutchinson
  3. Walter Tindall

Western Australia

Ten seats were up for election. The Labor Party was defending six seats. The Liberal-Country Coalition was defending four seats.

Labor candidates Coalition candidates Communist candidates Ungrouped candidates



 
  1. Dorothy Tangney*
  2. Don Willesee*
  3. James Fraser*
  4. Richard Nash*
  5. Joe Cooke
  6. John Harris
  1. Agnes Robertson* (Lib)
  2. Seddon Vincent* (Lib)
  3. Edmund Piesse* (CP)
  4. Malcolm Scott* (Lib)
  5. Harrie Seward* (CP)
  6. Shane Paltridge* (Lib)
  1. Kevin Healy
  2. Pat Hurd
  3. Jack Coleman

Carlyle Ferguson (APA)
Robert Salter