1936 Western Australian state election

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1936 Western Australian state election
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  1933 15 February 1936 1939  

All 50 seats in the Western Australian Legislative Assembly
 First partySecond partyThird party
  Philip Collier 1931 (cropped).jpg Portrait of Charles George Latham (cropped).jpg Norbert Keenan.png
Leader Philip Collier Charles Latham Norbert Keenan
Party Labor Country Nationalist
Leader since16 April 191712 April 193024 April 1933
Leader's seat Boulder York Nedlands
Last election30 seats12 seats8 seats
Seats won26 seats13 seats8 seats
Seat changeDecrease2.svg4Increase2.svg1Steady2.svg0
Percentage42.33%14.60%32.36%
SwingDecrease2.svg3.15Increase2.svg0.32Increase2.svg1.83

Premier before election

Philip Collier
Labor

Elected Premier

Philip Collier
Labor

Elections were held in the state of Western Australia on 15 February 1936 to elect all 50 members to the Legislative Assembly. The Labor Party, led by Premier Philip Collier, won a second term in office against the Country and Nationalist parties, led by Opposition Leader Charles Latham and Norbert Keenan respectively.

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No sitting MLA's retired at this election. This was one of the few elections in which the Labor party allowed more than one candidate to run against a sitting MP, namely in the seat of Kalgoorlie. James Cunningham was defeated by fellow Labor candidate Herbert Styants, and Cunningham transferred to the Australian Senate the following year.

Results

At the election, 5 sitting members (four Labor and one Nationalist) were defeated—three of them by independents. In Maylands, one-term MLA Robert Clothier (Labor) was defeated by independent Nationalist Harry Shearn, who won with preferences from two endorsed nationalists. In East Perth, Minister for Employment and Labour James Kenneally was defeated by former Labor member Thomas Hughes, and the Nationalist member for Nelson, John Henry Smith, was defeated by independent Clarence Doust. The remaining seats, Subiaco and Albany, were lost by Labor to the Nationalist and Country parties respectively.

Western Australian state election, 15 February 1936
Legislative Assembly
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Enrolled voters194,354 [1]
Votes cast136,309 Turnout 70.13%–20.47%
Informal votes1,518Informal1.11%–1.12%
Summary of votes by party
PartyPrimary votes %SwingSeatsChange
  Labor 57,05542.33%–3.15%26– 4
  Nationalist 43,61932.36%+1.83%8± 0
  Country 19,68514.60%+0.32%13+ 1
 Ind. Nat.3,4182.54%+1.33%1+ 1
  Social Credit 1,3851.03%+1.03%0± 0
  Communist 1180.09%–0.16%0± 0
  Independent 9,4317.00%–1.21%2+ 2
Total134,791  50 
1 247,465 electors were enrolled to vote at the election, but 15 of the 50 seats were uncontested—10 Labor seats representing 33,038 enrolled voters, 1 Nationalist seat representing 3,933 voters and 4 Country seats representing 16,284 voters.

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