This is a list of members of the 31st Legislative Assembly of Queensland from 1947 to 1950, as elected at the 1947 state election held on 3 May 1947.
During the term, the Queensland People's Party became the Queensland division of the Liberal Party of Australia.
Name Party Electorate Term in office Tom Aikens NQLP Mundingburra 1944–1977 Frank Barnes Ind. Labor Bundaberg 1941–1950 Joh Bjelke-Petersen Country Nanango 1947–1987 William Brand Country Isis 1920–1950 Hon Samuel Brassington Labor Fortitude Valley 1927–1932, 1933–1950 Dick Brown Labor Buranda 1947–1957 Hon Harry Bruce Labor The Tableland 1923–1950 Jim Burrows Labor Port Curtis 1947–1963 Gordon Chalk QPP/Liberal East Toowoomba 1947–1976 Jim Clark Labor Fitzroy 1935–1960 Hon Harold Collins Labor Cook 1935–1957 Kerry Copley Labor Kurilpa 1932–1949 Thomas Crowley Labor Cairns 1947–1956 Ned Davis Labor Barcoo 1943–1961 Eric Decker Country/QPP Sandgate 1941–1953 Hon George Devries Labor Gregory 1941–1957 Jim Donald Labor Bremer 1946–1969 Hon Jack Duggan Labor Toowoomba 1935–1957, 1958–1969 Thomas Dunstan Labor Gympie 1915–1929, 1935–1953 Ernie Evans Country Mirani 1947–1965 David Farrell Labor Maryborough 1938–1953 Hon Tom Foley Labor Normanby 1919–1960 Hon Vince Gair Labor South Brisbane 1932–1960 Hon David Gledson Labor Ipswich 1915–1929, 1932–1949 Fred Graham Labor Mackay 1943–1969 Bill Gunn Labor Wynnum 1944–1966 Hon Ned Hanlon Labor Ithaca 1926–1952 James Heading Country Wide Bay 1947–1960 Thomas Hiley QPP/Liberal Logan 1944–1966 Paul Hilton Labor Carnarvon 1935–1963 Walter Ingram Labor Keppel 1944–1952 Cecil Jesson Labor Kennedy 1935–1960 Hon Arthur Jones Labor Charters Towers 1929–1932, 1939–1960 Tom Kerr QPP/Liberal Oxley 1943–1956 George Keyatta Labor Townsville 1939–1960 Hon James Larcombe Labor Rockhampton 1912–1929, 1932–1956 David Low Country Cooroora 1947–1974 Louis Luckins QPP/Liberal Maree 1941–1953 Duncan MacDonald Country Stanley 1938–1953 Malcolm McIntyre Country Cunningham 1944–1953 Otto Madsen Country Warwick 1947–1963 Ted Maher Country West Moreton 1929–1949 Johnno Mann Labor Brisbane 1936–1969 George Marriott Ind. Labor Bulimba 1938–1950 Ivor Marsden Labor Ipswich 1949–1966 Hon Bill Moore Labor Merthyr 1940–1957 Tom Moores Labor Kurilpa 1949–1957 Kenneth Morris QPP/Liberal Enoggera 1944–1963 Alf Muller Country Fassifern 1935–1969 Frank Nicklin Country Murrumba 1932–1968 Harry O'Shea Labor Warrego 1941–1950 Fred Paterson Communist Bowen 1944–1950 Bruce Pie QPP/Liberal Windsor 1941–1943, 1944–1951 Tom Plunkett Country Albert 1929–1957 Hon Bill Power Labor Baroona 1935–1960 Frank Roberts Labor Nundah 1947–1956 Charles Russell Country Dalby 1947–1949 Norm Smith Labor Carpentaria 1941–1960 Jim Sparkes Country Aubigny 1932–1935, 1941–1960 Harold Taylor QPP/Liberal Hamilton 1947–1963 John Taylor Labor Maranoa 1944–1957 Stephen Theodore Labor Herbert 1940–1950 Bert Turner Labor Kelvin Grove 1941–1957 Charles Wanstall QPP/Liberal Toowong 1944–1950
On 14 May 1949, the Labor member for Ipswich, David Gledson, died. Labor candidate Ivor Marsden won the resulting by-election on 10 September 1949. On 18 July 1949, the Labor member for Kurilpa, Kerry Copley, died. Labor candidate Tom Moores won the resulting by-election on 10 September 1949. On 27 October 1949, Ted Maher, the Country member for West Moreton resigned to contest a seat in the Australian Senate at the 1949 federal election. The following day, Charles Russell, the member for Dalby, resigned to contest the seat of Maranoa. No by-elections were held due to the proximity of the 1950 state election
See also 1947 Queensland state election Hanlon Ministry (Labor) (1946–1952)
References
Waterson, D.B. Biographical register of the Queensland Parliament, 1930-1980 Canberra: ANU Press (1982)