Candidates of the 1953 South Australian state election explained

The 1953 South Australian state election was held on 7 March 1953.

Retiring Members

Labor

• Richard McKenzie, MHA (Murray)

Liberal and Country

• Shirley Jeffries, MHA (Torrens)

House of 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.^[1]

Electorate	Held by	Labor candidate	LCL candidate	Other candidates
			Sam Lawn		Edward Robertson (Comm)
				Malcolm McIntosh	Robert Upton (Ind) Carl Muller (Ind)
				David Brookman
				Berthold Teusner	Henry Schneider (Ind)
		Frederick Hansford		Geoffrey Clarke	John Parkinson (Ind)
				George Hawker
					William MacGillivray (Ind)
				Arthur Christian	Herbert Hogan (Ind)
		Percy Baillie		Glen Pearson
			Mick O'Halloran
			John Clark		Frank Rieck (Ind)
		Loftus Fenwick		Baden Pattinson
			Frank Walsh	Howard Zelling
		Bernard McEwen		Rufus Goldney
				Thomas Playford	Alan Finger (Comm)
			Cyril Hutchens
		Donald MacLeod		Herbert Michael
				Henry Dunks
		Raphael Mahony			John Fletcher (Ind)
		Robert Moroney			Lawrence McKenzie (Ind) Albert Denman (Ind)
		Gerald Travers		George Jenkins
				Roy Moir
				Howard Shannon
			James Stephens		Peter Symon (Comm)
			Charles Davis		Arthur Pickering (Ind) Thomas Madigan (Ind)
				Elder Whittle
					Tom Stott (Ind.) Henry Schneider (Ind.)
				James Heaslip
			Harold Tapping		Roy Luckman (Ind.)
			Elliot Parker		Percy Quirke
				William Jenkins	William McAnaney (Ind.) Orlando Hutchinson (Ind.)
			Lindsay Riches		Elliott Johnston (Comm)
			Fred Walsh
		Thomas Sexton
		Arthur Savage		Colin Dunnage
				Roy McLachlan
			Hughie McAlees
				Cecil Hincks
				Robert Nicholls

Legislative Council

Sitting members are shown in bold text. Successful candidates are highlighted in the relevant colour and identified by an asterisk (*).

District	Held by	Labor candidates	LCL candidates	Other candidates
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Central No. 1			Ken Bardolph Stan Bevan*
Central No. 2		Patience Howard Leslie Wright		Collier Cudmore Ernest Anthoney*
Midland				Alexander Melrose Colin Rowe*
Northern		C R Hannan G L O'Brien		William Robinson Robert Wilson*
Southern				Jack Bice John Cowan*	Frank Halleday (Ind.)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Jaensch. Dean. History of South Australian Elections 1857 - 2006. State Electoral Office South Australia. 2022-04-14. https://web.archive.org/web/20140302093736/http://www.ecsa.sa.gov.au/publications?view=document&id=480. 2014-03-02. dead.