He held the seat until 1943, when he was defeated, having been demoted to fourth place on the ballot to make way for Tasmanian state minister Nick McKenna.

[4] Darcey was a financial backer of the Daily Post, which supported the Australian Labor Party (ALP), and was an ally of its editor Edmund Dwyer-Gray.

He first stood for parliament at the 1934 federal election, as one of four endorsed ALP candidates in the seat of Denison.

[1] Darcey was a prominent advocate of reforming Australia's monetary system along social credit lines.

He spoke "at great length and often repetitively on social credit, so much so that, as he admitted, he sometimes emptied the chamber".