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Results of the 1938 New South Wales state election

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New South Wales state election, 26 March 1938
Legislative Assembly
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Enrolled voters 1,607,833[a]
Votes cast 1,183,257 Turnout 95.79 –0.27
Informal votes 32,237 Informal 2.65 –0.39
Summary of votes by party
Party Primary votes % Swing Seats Change
  United Australia 424,275 35.86 +2.76 37 – 1
  Labor 412,063 34.82 –7.60 28 –1
  Country 164,045 13.86 +0.94 22 –1
  Industrial Labor 43,735 3.70 +3.70 2 +2
  Communist 10,386 0.88 –0.6 0 ±0
  Independents 128,753 10.88 +6.4 1 +1
Total 1,183,257     90  

The 1938 New South Wales state election was for 90 electoral districts each returning a single member with compulsory preferential voting.[1]

Results by electoral district

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Albury

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1938 New South Wales state election: Albury [2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
United Australia Alexander Mair 7,356 57.8 −1.2
Labor Edward Jones 5,380 42.2 +1.2
Total formal votes 12,736 99.3 +0.9
Informal votes 91 0.7 −0.9
Turnout 12,827 95.7 +0.2
United Australia hold Swing −1.2

Annandale

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1938 New South Wales state election: Annandale [3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Bob Gorman unopposed
Labor hold  

Armidale

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1938 New South Wales state election: Armidale [4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country David Drummond 7,264 56.3 −43.7
Independent Charles Hobbs 4,248 33.0 +33.0
Independent William Broun 1,380 10.7 +10.7
Total formal votes 12,892 97.8
Informal votes 294 2.2
Turnout 13,186 96.5
Country hold Swing N/A
  • Preferences were not distributed.

Arncliffe

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1938 New South Wales state election: Arncliffe [5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Joseph Cahill 9,885 51.9 +5.8
United Australia Ernest Barton 9,156 48.1 +4.2
Total formal votes 19,041 98.5 +1.0
Informal votes 297 1.5 −1.0
Turnout 19,338 97.2 −0.4
Labor hold Swing +0.3

Ashburnham

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1938 New South Wales state election: Ashburnham [6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Hilton Elliott 6,409 48.4 −4.5
Labor Edgar Dring 5,779 43.6 −3.5
Independent William Gibbons 1,065 8.0 +8.0
Total formal votes 13,253 98.7 −0.2
Informal votes 175 1.3 +0.2
Turnout 13,428 96.8 0.0
Two-party-preferred result
Country Hilton Elliott 6,963 52.5 −0.4
Labor Edgar Dring 6,290 47.5 +0.4
Country hold Swing −0.4

Ashfield

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1938 New South Wales state election: Ashfield [7]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
United Australia Athol Richardson 8,921 53.7 +0.9
Independent Thomas Cavill 7,692 46.3 +46.3
Total formal votes 16,613 97.1 −1.4
Informal votes 498 2.9 +1.4
Turnout 17,111 95.7 −1.0
United Australia hold Swing N/A

Auburn

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1938 New South Wales state election: Auburn [8]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Jack Lang 10,771 59.2 +2.6
Industrial Labor Jack Hooke 7,416 40.8 +40.8
Total formal votes 18,187 95.2 −3.1
Informal votes 906 4.8 +3.1
Turnout 19,093 95.9 −0.4
Labor hold Swing N/A

Balmain

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1938 New South Wales state election: Balmain [9]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor John Quirk 11,763 72.1 +8.2
Independent John O'Carroll 3,089 18.9 +18.9
Communist Thomas Payne 1,459 8.9 +3.7
Total formal votes 16,311 95.1 −2.1
Informal votes 844 4.9 +2.1
Turnout 17,155 96.6 −0.5
Labor hold Swing N/A
  • Preferences were not distributed.

Bankstown

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1938 New South Wales state election: Bankstown [10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor James McGirr unopposed
Labor hold  

Barwon

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1938 New South Wales state election: Barwon [11]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Ben Wade 8,016 55.4 −2.5
Labor Thomas Kane 6,452 44.6 +2.5
Total formal votes 14,468 98.8 +1.7
Informal votes 174 1.2 −1.7
Turnout 14,642 95.1 +1.9
Country hold Swing −2.5

Bathurst

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1938 New South Wales state election: Bathurst [12]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Gus Kelly 7,455 54.2 +16.2
United Australia Thomas Mutch 4,789 34.8 +34.8
Country Roland Green 1,504 10.9 −33.2
Total formal votes 13,748 98.3 −0.1
Informal votes 236 1.7 +0.1
Turnout 13,984 96.6 −1.0
Labor hold Swing N/A
  • Preferences were not distributed.

Bondi

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1938 New South Wales state election: Bondi [13]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
United Australia Norman Thomas 12,223 52.3 −11.5
Labor Henry Collins 5,946 25.4 −10.8
Independent Thomas Hogan 4,357 18.6 +18.6
Independent Richard Brown 851 3.6 +3.6
Total formal votes 23,377 98.0 −0.3
Informal votes 474 2.0 +0.3
Turnout 23,851 95.8 −0.2
United Australia hold Swing N/A
  • Preferences were not distributed.

Botany

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1938 New South Wales state election: Botany [14]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Industrial Labor Bob Heffron 13,865 60.3
Labor Francis Kelly 9,118 39.7
Total formal votes 22,983 95.2
Informal votes 1,150 4.8
Turnout 24,133 96.8
Member changed to Industrial Labor from Labor Swing N/A

Bulli

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1938 New South Wales state election: Bulli [15]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor John Sweeney 7,380 54.6 −26.1
Independent Edward Ryan 3,413 25.2 +25.2
Communist Jack Miles 2,731 20.2 +0.9
Total formal votes 13,524 95.4 +13.7
Informal votes 655 4.6 −13.7
Turnout 14,179 95.1 −1.3
Labor hold Swing N/A
  • Preferences were not distributed.

Burwood

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1938 New South Wales state election: Burwood [16]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
United Australia Harrie Mitchell 9,199 51.0 +51.0
United Australia Gordon Jackett 8,853 49.0 −13.4
Total formal votes 18,052 92.3 −6.2
Informal votes 1,503 7.7 +6.2
Turnout 19,555 95.6 −0.9
United Australia hold Swing N/A

Byron

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1938 New South Wales state election: Byron [17]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Arthur Budd 7,986 57.7 +5.5
Independent Frederick Stuart 5,849 42.3 +19.9
Total formal votes 13,835 97.6 −0.8
Informal votes 340 2.4 +0.8
Turnout 14,175 94.8 +0.3
Country hold Swing N/A

Canterbury

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1938 New South Wales state election: Canterbury [18]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Arthur Tonge 10,690 54.3 +3.7
United Australia Edward Hocking 8,991 45.7 0.0
Total formal votes 19,681 98.7 +0.3
Informal votes 266 1.3 −0.3
Turnout 19,947 97.1 −0.5
Labor hold Swing N/A

Casino

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1938 New South Wales state election: Casino [19]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country John Reid unopposed
Country hold  

Castlereagh

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1938 New South Wales state election: Castlereagh [20]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Alfred Yeo 6,821 51.4 −0.2
Labor Les Murphy 6,454 48.6 +0.2
Total formal votes 13,275 98.1 −0.3
Informal votes 260 1.9 +0.3
Turnout 13,535 94.1 −0.9
Country hold Swing −0.2

Cessnock

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1938 New South Wales state election: Cessnock [21]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Jack Baddeley 12,106 69.3 +0.9
Industrial Labor Eugene O'Neill 5,360 30.7 +30.7
Total formal votes 17,466 97.6 0.0
Informal votes 435 2.4 0.0
Turnout 17,901 96.6 +0.4
Labor hold Swing N/A

Clarence

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1938 New South Wales state election: Clarence [22]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Cecil Wingfield 7,754 51.9 +51.9
Country Alfred Henry 7,194 48.1 −13.2
Total formal votes 14,948 98.3 +1.9
Informal votes 254 1.7 −1.9
Turnout 15,202 95.9 −0.1
Country hold Swing N/A

Cobar

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1938 New South Wales state election: Cobar [23]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Mat Davidson unopposed
Labor hold  

Concord

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1938 New South Wales state election: Concord [24]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
United Australia Stan Lloyd 10,489 56.4 +5.5
Labor Leonard Thompson 8,121 43.6 +3.6
Total formal votes 18,610 98.3 +0.4
Informal votes 317 1.7 −0.4
Turnout 18,927 96.7 −1.0
United Australia hold Swing N/A

Coogee

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1938 New South Wales state election: Coogee [25]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
United Australia John Dunningham 16,039 71.3 +4.2
Independent Mark Foots 6,470 28.7 +28.7
Total formal votes 22,509 96.5 −1.5
Informal votes 812 3.5 +1.5
Turnout 23,321 94.2 −0.7
United Australia hold Swing N/A

Cootamundra

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1938 New South Wales state election: Cootamundra [26]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Bill Ross 6,698 51.2 −1.5
Labor Ken Hoad 6,382 48.8 +1.5
Total formal votes 13,080 98.5 0.0
Informal votes 205 1.5 0.0
Turnout 13,285 96.5 −1.3
Country hold Swing −1.5

Corowa

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1938 New South Wales state election: Corowa [27]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent Christopher Lethbridge 6,333 52.2 +52.2
Country Ebenezer Kendell 4,973 41.0 −59.0
Independent Clive Walker 833 6.9 +6.9
Total formal votes 12,139 98.5
Informal votes 185 1.5
Turnout 12,324 94.4
Independent gain from Country Swing N/A

Christopher Lethbridge (Independent) had won the seat at the 1937 by-election following the death of Richard Ball (Country).

Croydon

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1938 New South Wales state election: Croydon [28]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
United Australia Bertram Stevens 11,765 69.6 +5.1
Independent Garry Gordon 5,142 30.4 +30.4
Total formal votes 16,907 93.9 −4.5
Informal votes 1,104 6.1 +4.5
Turnout 18,011 94.7 −1.2
United Australia hold Swing N/A

Drummoyne

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1938 New South Wales state election: Drummoyne [29]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
United Australia John Lee 11,299 60.1 +0.1
Labor Ray Maher 7,497 39.9 −0.1
Total formal votes 18,796 97.8 +0.3
Informal votes 429 2.2 −0.3
Turnout 19,225 96.6 −0.8
United Australia hold Swing +0.1

Dubbo

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1938 New South Wales state election: Dubbo [30]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country George Wilson 7,656 55.1 +0.1
Labor Leo Taylor 6,242 44.9 −0.1
Total formal votes 13,898 97.9 −0.5
Informal votes 292 2.1 +0.5
Turnout 14,190 95.4 −1.2
Country hold Swing +0.1

Dulwich Hill

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1938 New South Wales state election: Dulwich Hill [31]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
United Australia Guy Arkins 7,364 36.7 −25.2
Labor Leslie Morrow 6,992 34.9 −3.2
United Australia Ronald McCredie 5,686 28.4 +28.4
Total formal votes 20,042 98.4 +0.2
Informal votes 326 1.6 −0.2
Turnout 20,368 96.5 −0.2
Two-party-preferred result
United Australia Guy Arkins 12,497 62.3 +0.4
Labor Leslie Morrow 7,545 37.7 −0.4
United Australia hold Swing +0.4

Georges River

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1938 New South Wales state election: Georges River [32]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
United Australia Cecil Monro 13,222 57.4 +5.7
Labor Albert Kealman 9,811 42.6 −2.1
Total formal votes 23,033 97.3 −0.2
Informal votes 633 2.7 +0.2
Turnout 23,666 96.3 −0.3
United Australia hold Swing N/A

Glebe

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1938 New South Wales state election: Glebe [33]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Bill Carlton 7,023 46.0 −13.0
Industrial Labor Horace Foley 6,218 40.7 +40.7
Independent Bertie Lewis 2,021 13.2 +13.2
Total formal votes 15,262 96.8 −1.0
Informal votes 500 3.2 +1.0
Turnout 15,762 95.9 +0.3
Two-candidate-preferred result
Labor Bill Carlton 7,899 51.8
Industrial Labor Horace Foley 7,363 48.2
Labor hold Swing N/A

Gloucester

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1938 New South Wales state election: Gloucester [34]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
United Australia Charles Bennett 7,732 54.3 −45.7
Independent Ray Fitzgerald 5,010 35.2 +35.2
Independent Henry Rooke 1,492 10.5 +10.5
Total formal votes 14,234 98.4
Informal votes 238 1.6
Turnout 14,472 96.2
United Australia hold Swing N/A
  • Preferences were not distributed.

Gordon

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1938 New South Wales state election: Gordon [35]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
United Australia Harry Turner 10,557 50.02
United Australia William Milne 10,548 49.98
Total formal votes 21,105 96.6
Informal votes 739 3.4
Turnout 21,844 95.1
United Australia hold Swing N/A

Goulburn

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1938 New South Wales state election: Goulburn [36]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Jack Tully 6,284 51.3 +0.8
United Australia Peter Loughlin 3,200 26.1 −23.4
Country Frederick Davies 2,702 22.0 +22.0
Independent Robert Tatham 66 0.5 +0.5
Total formal votes 12,252 98.2 +0.6
Informal votes 221 1.8 −0.6
Turnout 12,473 97.7 +0.1
Labor hold Swing N/A
  • Preferences were not distributed.

Granville

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1938 New South Wales state election: Granville [37]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Bill Lamb 10,999 51.8 +8.2
United Australia Claude Fleck 10,227 48.2 +5.0
Total formal votes 21,226 97.9 +0.9
Informal votes 449 2.1 −0.9
Turnout 21,675 97.0 −0.9
Labor gain from United Australia Swing +2.0

Hamilton

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1938 New South Wales state election: Hamilton [38]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Joshua Arthur unopposed
Labor hold  

Hartley

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1938 New South Wales state election: Hartley [39]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Hamilton Knight unopposed
Labor hold  

Hawkesbury

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1938 New South Wales state election: Hawkesbury [40]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
United Australia Bruce Walker Jr 8,676 56.0 −13.7
Independent Victor Gillespie 6,803 44.0 +44.0
Total formal votes 15,479 97.4 +0.4
Informal votes 406 2.6 −0.4
Turnout 15,885 95.9 +0.1
United Australia hold Swing −13.7

Hornsby

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1938 New South Wales state election: Hornsby [41]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
United Australia James Shand 8,238 39.4 −41.9
United Australia Sydney Storey 6,012 28.7 +28.7
United Australia William Henson 4,936 23.6 +23.6
Independent Howard Miscamble 1,741 8.3 +8.3
Total formal votes 20,927 95.4 +8.1
Informal votes 1,010 4.6 −8.1
Turnout 21,937 95.6 +0.3
Two-candidate-preferred result
United Australia James Shand 11,082 53.0
United Australia Sydney Storey 9,845 47.0
United Australia hold Swing N/A

Hurstville

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1938 New South Wales state election: Hurstville [42]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
United Australia James Webb 11,493 56.1 +5.8
Labor Michael Croot 8,983 43.9 −2.5
Total formal votes 20,476 97.9 −0.3
Informal votes 440 2.1 +0.3
Turnout 20,916 97.1 −0.4
United Australia hold Swing N/A

Illawarra

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1938 New South Wales state election: Illawarra [43]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Billy Davies unopposed
Labor hold  

King

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1938 New South Wales state election: King [44]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Daniel Clyne 7,841 51.1 −0.5
United Australia Rowland Bowen 5,581 36.4 −7.2
Independent Josiah Trenerry 1,488 9.7 +9.7
Independent Patrick McDonnell 431 2.8 +2.8
Total formal votes 15,341 96.1 −0.7
Informal votes 626 3.9 +0.7
Turnout 15,967 90.9 −0.8
Labor hold Swing N/A
  • Preferences were not distributed.

Kogarah

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1938 New South Wales state election: Kogarah [45]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
United Australia James Ross 11,633 53.2 −0.4
Labor John Hibberd 8,368 38.3 −2.2
Independent John Battye 1,863 8.5 +8.5
Total formal votes 21,864 98.3 +0.1
Informal votes 371 1.7 −0.1
Turnout 22,235 97.1 −0.5
United Australia hold Swing N/A
  • Preferences were not distributed.

Kurri Kurri

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1938 New South Wales state election: Kurri Kurri [46]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor George Booth unopposed
Labor hold  

Lachlan

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1938 New South Wales state election: Lachlan [47]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor John Grace 5,393 39.5 +4.1
Country Griffith Evans 4,090 30.0 −34.6
Country John Parker 1,661 12.2 +12.2
Country Charles Thomas 1,475 10.8 +10.8
Independent George Berry 1,032 7.6 +7.6
Total formal votes 13,651 97.8 −0.6
Informal votes 306 2.2 +0.6
Turnout 13,957 94.9 +0.2
Two-party-preferred result
Country Griffith Evans 7,644 56.0 −8.6
Labor John Grace 6,007 44.0 +8.6
Country hold Swing −8.6

Lakemba

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1938 New South Wales state election: Lakemba [48]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Fred Stanley 11,796 61.9 +5.1
Independent William Dowe 7,276 38.1 +38.1
Total formal votes 19,072 96.6 −1.3
Informal votes 672 3.4 +1.3
Turnout 19,744 97.0 −0.1
Labor hold Swing N/A

Lane Cove

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1938 New South Wales state election: Lane Cove [49]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
United Australia Herbert FitzSimons unopposed
United Australia hold  

Leichhardt

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1938 New South Wales state election: Leichhardt [50]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Claude Matthews 9,822 60.5 +3.4
Industrial Labor James Dunn 3,870 23.8 +23.8
Independent Arthur Doughty 2,542 15.7 +15.7
Total formal votes 16,234 96.0 −1.7
Informal votes 668 4.0 +1.7
Turnout 16,902 96.5 −1.1
Labor hold Swing N/A
  • Preferences were not distributed.

Lismore

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1938 New South Wales state election: Lismore [51]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country William Frith unopposed
Country hold  

Liverpool Plains

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1938 New South Wales state election: Liverpool Plains [52]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Harry Carter 7,489 60.1 −1.0
Labor Thomas Ryan 4,975 39.9 +1.0
Total formal votes 12,464 98.5 −0.1
Informal votes 194 1.5 +0.1
Turnout 12,658 95.2 −0.6
Country hold Swing −1.0

Maitland

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1938 New South Wales state election: Maitland [53]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
United Australia Walter Howarth 7,861 61.2 +3.9
Labor Walter O'Hearn 4,988 38.8 −3.9
Total formal votes 12,849 98.9 +0.3
Informal votes 137 1.1 −0.3
Turnout 12,986 97.9 −0.2
United Australia hold Swing +3.9

Manly

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1938 New South Wales state election: Manly [54]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
United Australia Alfred Reid 13,538 57.4 −16.4
United Australia Robert Miller 6,589 27.9 +27.9
Independent Richard Fitzgerald 2,491 10.6 +10.6
United Australia Alfred Seller 956 4.1 +4.1
Total formal votes 23,574 97.0 +6.3
Informal votes 729 3.0 −6.3
Turnout 24,303 95.8 +0.5
United Australia hold Swing N/A
  • Preferences were not distributed.

Marrickville

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1938 New South Wales state election: Marrickville [55]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Industrial Labor Carlo Lazzarini 7,006 39.2 +39.2
United Australia Frederick Rushton 6,365 35.6 −9.2
Labor Leslie Balzen 4,496 25.2 −30.0
Total formal votes 17,867 98.7 −0.1
Informal votes 235 1.3 +0.1
Turnout 18,102 97.4 −0.1
Two-party-preferred result
Industrial Labor Carlo Lazzarini 10,960 61.3 +61.3
United Australia Frederick Rushton 6,907 38.7 −6.1
Member changed to Industrial Labor from Labor Swing N/A

Monaro

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1938 New South Wales state election: Monaro [56]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country William Hedges 7,570 57.6 +0.7
Labor Clarence Moore 5,567 42.4 −0.7
Total formal votes 13,137 98.7 0.0
Informal votes 168 1.3 0.0
Turnout 13,305 95.9 −1.2
Country hold Swing +0.7

Mosman

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1938 New South Wales state election: Mosman [57]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
United Australia Herbert Lloyd 10,191 54.7 −45.3
United Australia Henry Storey 8,443 45.3 +45.3
Total formal votes 18,634 97.9
Informal votes 402 2.1
Turnout 19,036 95.8
United Australia hold Swing N/A

Mudgee

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1938 New South Wales state election: Mudgee [58]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Bill Dunn 8,587 60.5 +7.8
Country Eric Pye 3,279 23.1 −24.2
Country Reginald Wilson 2,320 16.3 +16.3
Total formal votes 14,186 98.4 −1.0
Informal votes 229 1.6 +1.0
Turnout 14,415 96.4 −1.0
Labor hold Swing N/A
  • Preferences were not distributed.

Murray

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1938 New South Wales state election: Murray [59]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Joe Lawson 7,520 60.7 +9.7
Labor James Lloyd 4,875 39.3 −9.7
Total formal votes 12,395 97.8 −0.8
Informal votes 281 2.2 +0.8
Turnout 12,676 90.2 −0.2
Country hold Swing +9.7

Murrumbidgee

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1938 New South Wales state election: Murrumbidgee [60]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Robert Hankinson 7,640 50.5 −1.8
Labor George Enticknap 7,495 49.5 +1.8
Total formal votes 15,135 98.5 +0.3
Informal votes 228 1.5 −0.3
Turnout 15,363 95.2 +0.4
Country hold Swing −1.8

Namoi

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1938 New South Wales state election: Namoi [61]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Colin Sinclair 7,516 51.3 −1.3
Labor Ernest Hogan 7,120 48.7 +1.3
Total formal votes 14,636 99.0 +0.4
Informal votes 150 1.0 −0.4
Turnout 14,786 96.6 +1.2
Country hold Swing −1.3

Nepean

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1938 New South Wales state election: Nepean [62]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
United Australia Joseph Jackson 6,993 44.1 −21.5
Labor John Jackson 4,899 30.9 −3.5
United Australia Arthur Hebblewhite 3,965 25.0 +25.0
Total formal votes 15,857 97.7 −0.1
Informal votes 379 2.3 +0.1
Turnout 16,236 95.0 +0.1
Two-party-preferred result
United Australia Joseph Jackson 9,743 61.4 −4.2
Labor John Jackson 6,114 38.6 +4.2
United Australia hold Swing −4.2

Neutral Bay

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1938 New South Wales state election: Neutral Bay [63]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
United Australia Reginald Weaver unopposed
United Australia hold  

Newcastle

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1938 New South Wales state election: Newcastle [64]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Frank Hawkins 13,946 70.9 +19.3
Independent Claude Dalby 5,735 29.1 +29.1
Total formal votes 19,681 96.7 +1.1
Informal votes 674 3.3 −1.1
Turnout 20,355 95.3 −0.8
Labor hold Swing N/A

Newtown

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1938 New South Wales state election: Newtown [65]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Frank Burke 11,757 70.9 +3.4
Independent Cyril Glassop 4,831 29.1 +29.1
Total formal votes 16,588 97.1 0.0
Informal votes 503 2.9 0.0
Turnout 17,091 96.0 −0.9
Labor hold Swing N/A

North Sydney

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1938 New South Wales state election: North Sydney [66]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
United Australia Hubert Primrose 10,836 58.5 +2.9
Labor Henry Clayden 7,692 41.5 +4.4
Total formal votes 18,528 97.9 +0.4
Informal votes 399 2.1 −0.4
Turnout 18,927 94.7 −1.7
United Australia hold Swing N/A

Orange

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1938 New South Wales state election: Orange [67]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
United Australia Alwyn Tonking 8,140 56.1 +2.1
Labor Edward McGarry 6,380 43.9 −2.1
Total formal votes 14,520 98.6 +0.3
Informal votes 204 1.4 −0.3
Turnout 14,724 97.0 +0.2
United Australia hold Swing +2.1

Oxley

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1938 New South Wales state election: Oxley [68]  [68]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
United Australia Lewis Martin 8,255 55.4 −15.1
Independent George Mitchell 6,642 44.6 +44.6
Total formal votes 14,897 98.3 0.0
Informal votes 252 1.7 0.0
Turnout 15,149 96.1 −0.1
United Australia hold Swing N/A

Paddington

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1938 New South Wales state election: Paddington [69]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Maurice O'Sullivan 13,768 90.2 +23.7
Communist Lance Sharkey 1,503 9.8 +1.2
Total formal votes 15,271 92.3 −3.8
Informal votes 1,266 7.7 +3.8
Turnout 16,537 92.9 −0.5
Labor hold Swing N/A

Parramatta

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1938 New South Wales state election: Parramatta [70]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
United Australia George Gollan 12,878 61.1 +2.8
Labor Albert Rowe 8,203 38.9 −0.1
Total formal votes 21,081 97.9 −0.4
Informal votes 445 2.1 +0.4
Turnout 21,526 96.5 0.0
United Australia hold Swing N/A

Petersham

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1938 New South Wales state election: Petersham [71]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
United Australia Eric Solomon 9,033 50.5 +1.4
Labor Bill Sheahan 8,861 49.5 +4.4
Total formal votes 17,894 98.3 +0.2
Informal votes 307 1.7 −0.2
Turnout 18,201 97.1 +1.2
United Australia hold Swing −1.3

Phillip

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1938 New South Wales state election: Phillip [72]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Tom Shannon unopposed
Labor hold  

Raleigh

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1938 New South Wales state election: Raleigh [73]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Roy Vincent 8,659 56.2 −1.3
Independent Les Jordan 5,429 35.2 +35.2
Labor John Devine 1,316 8.5 +8.5
Total formal votes 15,404 98.1 −0.2
Informal votes 297 1.9 +0.2
Turnout 15,701 95.1 −0.9
Country hold Swing N/A
  • Preferences were not distributed.

Randwick

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1938 New South Wales state election: Randwick [74]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
United Australia Arthur Moverly 11,100 56.0 +3.1
Labor Bob O'Halloran 8,719 44.0 +1.0
Total formal votes 19,819 98.3 −0.1
Informal votes 332 1.7 +0.1
Turnout 20,151 95.8 −0.9
United Australia hold Swing N/A

Redfern

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1938 New South Wales state election: Redfern [75]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor William McKell unopposed
Labor hold  

Ryde

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1938 New South Wales state election: Ryde [76]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
United Australia Eric Spooner 11,669 53.3 −6.0
Labor James Walsh 5,746 26.3 −14.4
Independent William Harrison 4,478 20.4 +20.4
Total formal votes 21,893 98.7 +0.6
Informal votes 294 1.3 −0.6
Turnout 22,187 97.0 −0.5
United Australia hold Swing N/A
  • Preferences were not distributed.

South Coast

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1938 New South Wales state election: South Coast [77]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
United Australia Henry Bate unopposed
United Australia hold  

Sturt

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1938 New South Wales state election: Sturt [78]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Ted Horsington unopposed
Labor hold  

Tamworth

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1938 New South Wales state election: Tamworth [79]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
United Australia Frank Chaffey 8,255 60.0 −15.7
Labor John Killalea 4,688 34.1 +7.9
Independent Augustine Logue 804 5.9 +5.9
Total formal votes 13,747 98.5 +0.6
Informal votes 204 1.5 −0.6
Turnout 13,951 96.8 +0.8
United Australia hold Swing N/A
  • Preferences were not distributed.

Temora

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1938 New South Wales state election: Temora [80]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Doug Dickson 3,225 27.0 −32.3
Country Hugh Roberton 3,015 25.3 +25.3
Independent Lancelot Redgrave 2,568 21.5 +21.5
Independent Alfred Hollande 2,404 20.2 +20.2
Independent Harold Munro 717 6.0 +6.0
Total formal votes 11,929 95.9 −2.4
Informal votes 513 4.1 +2.4
Turnout 12,442 96.4 +0.5
Two-candidate-preferred result
Country Doug Dickson 6,618 55.5 −3.8
Independent Lancelot Redgrave 5,311 44.5 +44.5
Country hold Swing N/A

Tenterfield

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1938 New South Wales state election: Tenterfield [81]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Michael Bruxner 7,995 61.9 −38.1
Independent William McCotter 2,968 23.0 +23.0
Independent Edward Ogilvie 1,959 15.2 +15.2
Total formal votes 12,922 98.2
Informal votes 242 1.8
Turnout 13,164 94.4
Country hold Swing N/A
  • Preferences were not distributed.

Upper Hunter

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1938 New South Wales state election: Upper Hunter [82]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Malcolm Brown unopposed
Country hold  

Vaucluse

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1938 New South Wales state election: Vaucluse [83]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
United Australia Murray Robson unopposed
United Australia hold  

William Foster (United Australia) died and Murray Robson had been elected as an Independent candidate at the resulting by-election however he re-joined the United Australia party.

Wagga Wagga

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1938 New South Wales state election: Wagga Wagga [84]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Matthew Kilpatrick 8,092 63.1 −0.4
Labor Eric McKeig 4,734 36.9 +0.4
Total formal votes 12,826 98.5 −0.2
Informal votes 196 1.5 +0.2
Turnout 13,022 95.3 −0.5
Country hold Swing −0.4

Waratah

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1938 New South Wales state election: Waratah [85]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Robert Cameron 16,442 77.8 +19.0
Communist Robert Cram 4,693 22.2 +13.8
Total formal votes 21.135 94.4 −2.1
Informal votes 1,249 5.6 +2.1
Turnout 22,384 95.9 −0.9
Labor hold Swing N/A

Waverley

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1938 New South Wales state election: Waverley [86]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
United Australia John Waddell 10,210 51.4 +1.2
Labor William Clementson 9,641 48.6 +2.7
Total formal votes 19,851 98.1 −0.2
Informal votes 380 1.9 +0.2
Turnout 20,231 94.9 −0.9
United Australia hold Swing N/A

Willoughby

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1938 New South Wales state election: Willoughby [87]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
United Australia Edward Sanders unopposed
United Australia hold  

Wollondilly

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1938 New South Wales state election: Wollondilly [88]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
United Australia Mark Morton unopposed
United Australia hold  

Woollahra

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1938 New South Wales state election: Woollahra [89]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
United Australia Vernon Treatt 9,512 53.6 −18.3
United Australia Arthur Butterell 8,227 46.4 +46.4
Total formal votes 17,739 93.6 −3.2
Informal votes 1,216 6.4 +3.2
Turnout 18,955 91.6 +0.4
United Australia hold Swing N/A

The sitting member Sir Daniel Levy (United Australia) died in 1937. The resulting by-election was won by Harold Mason (Ind. United Australia) however he did not contest the election and the seat was regained by Vernon Treatt (United Australia).

Yass

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1938 New South Wales state election: Yass [90]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
United Australia George Ardill 7,074 57.4 −0.4
Independent Vivian Partridge 5,240 42.6 +42.6
Total formal votes 12,314 98.5 −0.1
Informal votes 186 1.5 +0.1
Turnout 12,500 96.1 −1.0
United Australia hold Swing N/A

Young

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1938 New South Wales state election: Young [91]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Albert Reid 7,522 53.9 +0.2
Labor Reginald Phillips 6,435 46.1 −0.2
Total formal votes 13,957 99.0 +0.3
Informal votes 145 1.0 −0.3
Turnout 14,102 97.3 +0.7
Country hold Swing +0.2

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Notes

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  1. ^ A total of 19 electorates (six UAP, three Country, and ten Labor) were uncontested, representing 338,853 voters.[1]

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