This article provides information on candidates who stood for the 1940 Australian federal election. The election was held on 21 September 1940.
Earlier in 1940, the Lang Labor supporters had again broken away from the federal Australian Labor Party. Seats held by the defectors are designated as Labor seats.
Sitting members at the time of the election are shown in bold text. Successful candidates are highlighted in the relevant colour. Where there is possible confusion, an asterisk (*) is also used.
Electorate | Held by | Labor candidate | Other candidates |
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Northern Territory | Independent | Lindsay Craig | Adair Blain * (Ind) Fred Colson (Ind) John McDonald (Ind Lab) |
Electorate | Held by | Labor candidate | Coalition candidate | Other candidates |
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Brisbane | Labor | George Lawson | John Fletcher (UAP) | |
Capricornia | Labor | Frank Forde | Edwin Hiskens (CP) | |
Darling Downs | Country | Leslie Bailey | Arthur Fadden (CP) | |
Griffith | Labor | William Conelan | Peter McCowan (UAP) | |
Herbert | Labor | George Martens | Thomas Mann (CP) | Louis Haydon (Ind RSL) Fred Paterson (Ind) |
Kennedy | Labor | Bill Riordan | Wilfrid Simmonds (CP) | |
Lilley | United Australia | Gordon Lovell | William Jolly (UAP) | Charles Mitchell (Ind) |
Maranoa | Country | Frank Baker | Bob McGeoch (CP) | Henry Madden (Ind) |
Moreton | United Australia | Henry Herbert | Josiah Francis (UAP) | |
Wide Bay | Country | Samuel Round | Bernard Corser (CP) | John Rex (PLP) |
Electorate | Held by | Labor candidate | Coalition candidate | Other candidates |
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Adelaide | United Australia | Edgar Dawes | Fred Stacey (UAP) | Raymond Davis (ADLP) Bert Edwards (Ind Lab) |
Barker | Country | Cecil Skitch | Archie Cameron (CP) | Charles Lloyd (Ind) |
Boothby | United Australia | George Edwin Yates | John Price (UAP) | William Adey (Ind) |
Grey | Country | Charles Davis | Oliver Badman (CP) | Percy McFarlane (Ind) |
Hindmarsh | Labor | Norman Makin | Harry Hatwell (UAP) | |
Wakefield | Labor | Sydney McHugh | Jack Duncan-Hughes (UAP) |
Electorate | Held by | Labor candidate | UAP candidate | Independent candidates |
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Bass | Labor | Claude Barnard | Algie Findlay Desmond Oldham | John Watson |
Darwin | United Australia | Eric Reece | George Bell | |
Denison | Labor | Gerald Mahoney | Arthur Beck | |
Franklin | Labor | Charles Frost | Hugh Warner | |
Wilmot | Labor | Lancelot Spurr | Frank Edwards Allan Guy* |
Electorate | Held by | Labor candidate | Coalition candidate | Other candidates |
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Forrest | Country | Vane Green | John Prowse (CP) | |
Fremantle | Labor | John Curtin | Frederick Lee (UAP) | Gil Clarke (Ind UAP) |
Kalgoorlie | Labor | Albert Green | ||
Perth | United Australia | Gavan McMillan | Walter Nairn (UAP) | James Bolitho (Ind) |
Swan | Country | Jim Dinan | Henry Gregory * (CP) Thomas Marwick (CP) | Claude Barker (Ind) John Tregenza (BIWF) |
Sitting Senators are shown in bold text. Tickets that elected at least one Senator are highlighted in the relevant colour. Successful candidates are identified by an asterisk (*).
Three seats were up for election. The United Australia Party-Country Party Coalition was defending two seats. The Labor Party was defending one seat. Labor Senators Stan Amour, John Armstrong and Tom Arthur were not up for re-election.
Labor candidates | Coalition candidates | Labor (N-C) candidates | State Labor candidates | Defence candidates | Ungrouped candidates |
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Three seats were up for election. The United Australia Party-Country Party Coalition was defending three seats. Labor Senators Gordon Brown, Joe Collings and Ben Courtice were not up for re-election.
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Three seats were up for election. The United Australia Party was defending three seats. United Australia Party Senators Philip McBride, Alexander McLachlan and Keith Wilson were not up for re-election.
Labor candidates | UAP candidates | Ungrouped candidates |
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Three seats were up for election. The United Australia Party was defending three seats. Labor Senators Bill Aylett, Richard Darcey and Charles Lamp were not up for re-election.
Labor candidates | UAP candidates | Ungrouped candidates |
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Four seats were up for election. One of these was a short-term vacancy caused by Labor Senator-elect John Barnes's death; this had been filled in the interim by Labor's Jim Sheehan. The United Australia Party-Country Party Coalition was defending three seats. The Labor Party was defending one seat. Labor Senators Don Cameron and Richard Keane were not up for re-election.
Labor candidates | Coalition candidates | Ungrouped candidates |
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Three seats were up for election. The United Australia Party-Country Party Coalition was defending three seats. Labor Senators Robert Clothier, James Cunningham and James Fraser were not up for re-election.
Labor candidates | Coalition candidates | Soldiers candidates | Ungrouped candidates |
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| Carlyle Ferguson (Ind) |
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