Results of the 1938 New South Wales state election

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New South Wales state election, 26 March 1938
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Enrolled voters1,607,833 [lower-alpha 1]
Votes cast1,183,257 Turnout 95.79–0.27
Informal votes32,237Informal2.65–0.39
Summary of votes by party
PartyPrimary votes %SwingSeatsChange
  United Australia 424,27535.86+2.7637– 1
  Labor 412,06334.82–7.6028–1
  Country 164,04513.86+0.9422–1
  Industrial Labor 43,7353.70+3.702+2
  Communist 10,3860.88–0.60±0
  Independents 128,75310.88+6.41+1
Total1,183,257  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

Albury

1938 New South Wales state election: Albury   [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
United Australia Alexander Mair 7,35657.8-1.2
Labor Edward Jones5,38042.2+1.2
Total formal votes12,73699.3+0.9
Informal votes910.7-0.9
Turnout 12,82795.7+0.2
United Australia hold Swing -1.2

Annandale

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

Armidale

1938 New South Wales state election: Armidale   [4]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Country David Drummond 7,26456.3-43.7
Independent Charles Hobbs4,24833.0+33.0
Independent William Broun1,38010.7+10.7
Total formal votes12,89297.8
Informal votes2942.2
Turnout 13,18696.5
Country hold Swing N/A

Arncliffe

1938 New South Wales state election: Arncliffe   [5]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labor Joseph Cahill 9,88551.9+5.8
United Australia Ernest Barton9,15648.1+4.2
Total formal votes19,04198.5+1.0
Informal votes2971.5-1.0
Turnout 19,33897.2-0.4
Labor hold Swing +0.3

Ashburnham

1938 New South Wales state election: Ashburnham   [6]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Country Hilton Elliott 6,40948.4-4.5
Labor Edgar Dring 5,77943.6-3.5
Independent William Gibbons1,0658.0+8.0
Total formal votes13,25398.7-0.2
Informal votes1751.3+0.2
Turnout 13,42896.80.0
Two-party-preferred result
Country Hilton Elliott 6,96352.5-0.4
Labor Edgar Dring 6,29047.5+0.4
Country hold Swing -0.4

Ashfield

1938 New South Wales state election: Ashfield   [7]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
United Australia Athol Richardson 8,92153.7+0.9
Independent Thomas Cavill7,69246.3+46.3
Total formal votes16,61397.1-1.4
Informal votes4982.9+1.4
Turnout 17,11195.7-1.0
United Australia hold Swing N/A

Auburn

1938 New South Wales state election: Auburn   [8]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labor Jack Lang 10,77159.2+2.6
Industrial Labor Jack Hooke7,41640.8+40.8
Total formal votes18,18795.2-3.1
Informal votes9064.8+3.1
Turnout 19,09395.9-0.4
Labor hold Swing N/A

Balmain

1938 New South Wales state election: Balmain   [9]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labor John Quirk 11,76372.1+8.2
Independent John O'Carroll3,08918.9+18.9
Communist Thomas Payne1,4598.9+3.7
Total formal votes16,31195.1-2.1
Informal votes8444.9+2.1
Turnout 17,15596.6-0.5
Labor hold Swing N/A

Bankstown

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

Barwon

1938 New South Wales state election: Barwon   [11]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Country Ben Wade 8,01655.4-2.5
Labor Thomas Kane6,45244.6+2.5
Total formal votes14,46898.8+1.7
Informal votes1741.2-1.7
Turnout 14,64295.1+1.9
Country hold Swing -2.5

Bathurst

1938 New South Wales state election: Bathurst   [12]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labor Gus Kelly 7,45554.2+16.2
United Australia Thomas Mutch 4,78934.8+34.8
Country Roland Green 1,50410.9-33.2
Total formal votes13,74898.3-0.1
Informal votes2361.7+0.1
Turnout 13,98496.6-1.0
Labor hold Swing N/A

Bondi

1938 New South Wales state election: Bondi   [13]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
United Australia Norman Thomas 12,22352.3-11.5
Labor Henry Collins5,94625.4-10.8
Independent Thomas Hogan4,35718.6+18.6
Independent Richard Brown8513.6+3.6
Total formal votes23,37798.0-0.3
Informal votes4742.0+0.3
Turnout 23,85195.8-0.2
United Australia hold Swing N/A

Botany

1938 New South Wales state election: Botany   [14]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Industrial Labor Bob Heffron 13,86560.3
Labor Francis Kelly 9,11839.7
Total formal votes22,98395.2
Informal votes1,1504.8
Turnout 24,13396.8
Member changed to Industrial Labor from Labor Swing N/A

Bulli

1938 New South Wales state election: Bulli   [15]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labor John Sweeney 7,38054.6-26.1
Independent Edward Ryan3,41325.2+25.2
Communist Jack Miles 2,73120.2+0.9
Total formal votes13,52495.4+13.7
Informal votes6554.6-13.7
Turnout 14,17995.1-1.3
Labor hold Swing N/A

Burwood

1938 New South Wales state election: Burwood   [16]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
United Australia Harrie Mitchell 9,19951.0+51.0
United Australia Gordon Jackett 8,85349.0-13.4
Total formal votes18,05292.3-6.2
Informal votes1,5037.7+6.2
Turnout 19,55595.6-0.9
United Australia hold Swing N/A

Byron

1938 New South Wales state election: Byron   [17]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Country Arthur Budd 7,98657.7+5.5
Independent Frederick Stuart 5,84942.3+19.9
Total formal votes13,83597.6-0.8
Informal votes3402.4+0.8
Turnout 14,17594.8+0.3
Country hold Swing N/A

Canterbury

1938 New South Wales state election: Canterbury   [18]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labor Arthur Tonge 10,69054.3+3.7
United Australia Edward Hocking 8,99145.70.0
Total formal votes19,68198.7+0.3
Informal votes2661.3-0.3
Turnout 19,94797.1-0.5
Labor hold Swing N/A

Casino

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

Castlereagh

1938 New South Wales state election: Castlereagh   [20]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Country Alfred Yeo 6,82151.4-0.2
Labor Les Murphy6,45448.6+0.2
Total formal votes13,27598.1-0.3
Informal votes2601.9+0.3
Turnout 13,53594.1-0.9
Country hold Swing -0.2

Cessnock

1938 New South Wales state election: Cessnock   [21]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labor Jack Baddeley 12,10669.3+0.9
Industrial Labor Eugene O'Neill5,36030.7+30.7
Total formal votes17,46697.60.0
Informal votes4352.40.0
Turnout 17,90196.6+0.4
Labor hold Swing N/A

Clarence

1938 New South Wales state election: Clarence   [22]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Country Cecil Wingfield 7,75451.9+51.9
Country Alfred Henry 7,19448.1-13.2
Total formal votes14,94898.3+1.9
Informal votes2541.7-1.9
Turnout 15,20295.9-0.1
Country hold Swing N/A

Cobar

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

Concord

1938 New South Wales state election: Concord   [24]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
United Australia Stan Lloyd 10,48956.4+5.5
Labor Leonard Thompson8,12143.6+3.6
Total formal votes18,61098.3+0.4
Informal votes3171.7-0.4
Turnout 18,92796.7-1.0
United Australia hold Swing N/A

Coogee

1938 New South Wales state election: Coogee   [25]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
United Australia John Dunningham 16,03971.3+4.2
Independent Mark Foots6,47028.7+28.7
Total formal votes22,50996.5-1.5
Informal votes8123.5+1.5
Turnout 23,32194.2-0.7
United Australia hold Swing N/A

Cootamundra

1938 New South Wales state election: Cootamundra   [26]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Country Bill Ross 6,69851.2-1.5
Labor Ken Hoad 6,38248.8+1.5
Total formal votes13,08098.50.0
Informal votes2051.50.0
Turnout 13,28596.5-1.3
Country hold Swing -1.5

Corowa

1938 New South Wales state election: Corowa   [27]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Independent Christopher Lethbridge 6,33352.2+52.2
Country Ebenezer Kendell 4,97341.0-59.0
Independent Clive Walker8336.9+6.9
Total formal votes12,13998.5
Informal votes1851.5
Turnout 12,32494.4
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

1938 New South Wales state election: Croydon   [28]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
United Australia Bertram Stevens 11,76569.6+5.1
Independent Garry Gordon5,14230.4+30.4
Total formal votes16,90793.9-4.5
Informal votes1,1046.1+4.5
Turnout 18,01194.7-1.2
United Australia hold Swing N/A

Drummoyne

1938 New South Wales state election: Drummoyne   [29]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
United Australia John Lee 11,29960.1+0.1
Labor Ray Maher 7,49739.9-0.1
Total formal votes18,79697.8+0.3
Informal votes4292.2-0.3
Turnout 19,22596.6-0.8
United Australia hold Swing +0.1

Dubbo

1938 New South Wales state election: Dubbo   [30]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Country George Wilson 7,65655.1+0.1
Labor Leo Taylor6,24244.9-0.1
Total formal votes13,89897.9-0.5
Informal votes2922.1+0.5
Turnout 14,19095.4-1.2
Country hold Swing +0.1

Dulwich Hill

1938 New South Wales state election: Dulwich Hill   [31]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
United Australia Guy Arkins 7,36436.7-25.2
Labor Leslie Morrow6,99234.9-3.2
United Australia Ronald McCredie5,68628.4+28.4
Total formal votes20,04298.4+0.2
Informal votes3261.6-0.2
Turnout 20,36896.5-0.2
Two-party-preferred result
United Australia Guy Arkins 12,49762.3+0.4
Labor Leslie Morrow7,54537.7-0.4
United Australia hold Swing +0.4

Georges River

1938 New South Wales state election: Georges River   [32]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
United Australia Cecil Monro 13,22257.4+5.7
Labor Albert Kealman9,81142.6-2.1
Total formal votes23,03397.3-0.2
Informal votes6332.7+0.2
Turnout 23,66696.3-0.3
United Australia hold Swing N/A

Glebe

1938 New South Wales state election: Glebe   [33]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labor Bill Carlton 7,02346.0-13.0
Industrial Labor Horace Foley 6,21840.7+40.7
Independent Bertie Lewis2,02113.2+13.2
Total formal votes15,26296.8-1.0
Informal votes5003.2+1.0
Turnout 15,76295.9+0.3
Two-candidate-preferred result
Labor Bill Carlton 7,89951.8
Industrial Labor Horace Foley 7,36348.2
Labor hold Swing N/A

Gloucester

1938 New South Wales state election: Gloucester   [34]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
United Australia Charles Bennett 7,73254.3-45.7
Independent Ray Fitzgerald 5,01035.2+35.2
Independent Henry Rooke1,49210.5+10.5
Total formal votes14,23498.4
Informal votes2381.6
Turnout 14,47296.2
United Australia hold Swing N/A

Gordon

1938 New South Wales state election: Gordon   [35]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
United Australia Harry Turner 10,55750.02
United Australia William Milne10,54849.98
Total formal votes21,10596.6
Informal votes7393.4
Turnout 21,84495.1
United Australia hold Swing N/A

Goulburn

1938 New South Wales state election: Goulburn   [36]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labor Jack Tully 6,28451.3+0.8
United Australia Peter Loughlin 3,20026.1-23.4
Country Frederick Davies2,70222.0+22.0
Independent Robert Tatham660.5+0.5
Total formal votes12,25298.2+0.6
Informal votes2211.8-0.6
Turnout 12,47397.7+0.1
Labor hold Swing N/A

Granville

1938 New South Wales state election: Granville   [37]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labor Bill Lamb 10,99951.8+8.2
United Australia Claude Fleck 10,22748.2+5.0
Total formal votes21,22697.9+0.9
Informal votes4492.1-0.9
Turnout 21,67597.0-0.9
Labor gain from United Australia Swing +2.0

Hamilton

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

Hartley

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

Hawkesbury

1938 New South Wales state election: Hawkesbury   [40]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
United Australia Bruce Walker Jr 8,67656.0-13.7
Independent Victor Gillespie6,80344.0+44.0
Total formal votes15,47997.4+0.4
Informal votes4062.6-0.4
Turnout 15,88595.9+0.1
United Australia hold Swing -13.7

Hornsby

1938 New South Wales state election: Hornsby   [41]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
United Australia James Shand 8,23839.4-41.9
United Australia Sydney Storey 6,01228.7+28.7
United Australia William Henson 4,93623.6+23.6
Independent Howard Miscamble1,7418.3+8.3
Total formal votes20,92795.4+8.1
Informal votes1,0104.6-8.1
Turnout 21,93795.6+0.3
Two-candidate-preferred result
United Australia James Shand 11,08253.0
United Australia Sydney Storey 9,84547.0
United Australia hold Swing N/A

Hurstville

1938 New South Wales state election: Hurstville   [42]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
United Australia James Webb 11,49356.1+5.8
Labor Michael Croot8,98343.9-2.5
Total formal votes20,47697.9-0.3
Informal votes4402.1+0.3
Turnout 20,91697.1-0.4
United Australia hold Swing N/A

Illawarra

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

King

1938 New South Wales state election: King   [44]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labor Daniel Clyne 7,84151.1-0.5
United Australia Rowland Bowen5,58136.4-7.2
Independent Josiah Trenerry1,4889.7+9.7
Independent Patrick McDonnell4312.8+2.8
Total formal votes15,34196.1-0.7
Informal votes6263.9+0.7
Turnout 15,96790.9-0.8
Labor hold Swing N/A

Kogarah

1938 New South Wales state election: Kogarah   [45]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
United Australia James Ross 11,63353.2-0.4
Labor John Hibberd8,36838.3-2.2
Independent John Battye1,8638.5+8.5
Total formal votes21,86498.3+0.1
Informal votes3711.7-0.1
Turnout 22,23597.1-0.5
United Australia hold Swing N/A

Kurri Kurri

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

Lachlan

1938 New South Wales state election: Lachlan   [47]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labor John Grace5,39339.5+4.1
Country Griffith Evans 4,09030.0-34.6
Country John Parker1,66112.2+12.2
Country Charles Thomas1,47510.8+10.8
Independent George Berry1,0327.6+7.6
Total formal votes13,65197.8-0.6
Informal votes3062.2+0.6
Turnout 13,95794.9+0.2
Two-party-preferred result
Country Griffith Evans 7,64456.0-8.6
Labor John Grace6,00744.0+8.6
Country hold Swing -8.6

Lakemba

1938 New South Wales state election: Lakemba   [48]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labor Fred Stanley 11,79661.9+5.1
Independent William Dowe7,27638.1+38.1
Total formal votes19,07296.6-1.3
Informal votes6723.4+1.3
Turnout 19,74497.0-0.1
Labor hold Swing N/A

Lane Cove

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

Leichhardt

1938 New South Wales state election: Leichhardt   [50]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labor Claude Matthews 9,82260.5+3.4
Industrial Labor James Dunn 3,87023.8+23.8
Independent Arthur Doughty2,54215.7+15.7
Total formal votes16,23496.0-1.7
Informal votes6684.0+1.7
Turnout 16,90296.5-1.1
Labor hold Swing N/A

Lismore

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

Liverpool Plains

1938 New South Wales state election: Liverpool Plains   [52]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Country Harry Carter 7,48960.1-1.0
Labor Thomas Ryan 4,97539.9+1.0
Total formal votes12,46498.5-0.1
Informal votes1941.5+0.1
Turnout 12,65895.2-0.6
Country hold Swing -1.0

Maitland

1938 New South Wales state election: Maitland   [53]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
United Australia Walter Howarth 7,86161.2+3.9
Labor Walter O'Hearn 4,98838.8-3.9
Total formal votes12,84998.9+0.3
Informal votes1371.1-0.3
Turnout 12,98697.9-0.2
United Australia hold Swing +3.9

Manly

1938 New South Wales state election: Manly   [54]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
United Australia Alfred Reid 13,53857.4-16.4
United Australia Robert Miller6,58927.9+27.9
Independent Richard Fitzgerald2,49110.6+10.6
United Australia Alfred Seller9564.1+4.1
Total formal votes23,57497.0+6.3
Informal votes7293.0-6.3
Turnout 24,30395.8+0.5
United Australia hold Swing N/A

Marrickville

1938 New South Wales state election: Marrickville   [55]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Industrial Labor Carlo Lazzarini 7,00639.2+39.2
United Australia Frederick Rushton6,36535.6-9.2
Labor Leslie Balzen4,49625.2-30.0
Total formal votes17,86798.7-0.1
Informal votes2351.3+0.1
Turnout 18,10297.4-0.1
Two-party-preferred result
Industrial Labor Carlo Lazzarini 10,96061.3+61.3
United Australia Frederick Rushton6,90738.7-6.1
Member changed to Industrial Labor from Labor Swing N/A

Monaro

1938 New South Wales state election: Monaro   [56]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Country William Hedges 7,57057.6+0.7
Labor Clarence Moore5,56742.4-0.7
Total formal votes13,13798.70.0
Informal votes1681.30.0
Turnout 13,30595.9-1.2
Country hold Swing +0.7

Mosman

1938 New South Wales state election: Mosman   [57]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
United Australia Herbert Lloyd 10,19154.7-45.3
United Australia Henry Storey8,44345.3+45.3
Total formal votes18,63497.9
Informal votes4022.1
Turnout 19,03695.8
United Australia hold Swing N/A

Mudgee

1938 New South Wales state election: Mudgee   [58]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labor Bill Dunn 8,58760.5+7.8
Country Eric Pye3,27923.1-24.2
Country Reginald Wilson2,32016.3+16.3
Total formal votes14,18698.4-1.0
Informal votes2291.6+1.0
Turnout 14,41596.4-1.0
Labor hold Swing N/A

Murray

1938 New South Wales state election: Murray   [59]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Country Joe Lawson 7,52060.7+9.7
Labor James Lloyd4,87539.3-9.7
Total formal votes12,39597.8-0.8
Informal votes2812.2+0.8
Turnout 12,67690.2-0.2
Country hold Swing +9.7

Murrumbidgee

1938 New South Wales state election: Murrumbidgee   [60]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Country Robert Hankinson 7,64050.5-1.8
Labor George Enticknap 7,49549.5+1.8
Total formal votes15,13598.5+0.3
Informal votes2281.5-0.3
Turnout 15,36395.2+0.4
Country hold Swing -1.8

Namoi

1938 New South Wales state election: Namoi   [61]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Country Colin Sinclair 7,51651.3-1.3
Labor Ernest Hogan7,12048.7+1.3
Total formal votes14,63699.0+0.4
Informal votes1501.0-0.4
Turnout 14,78696.6+1.2
Country hold Swing -1.3

Nepean

1938 New South Wales state election: Nepean   [62]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
United Australia Joseph Jackson 6,99344.1-21.5
Labor John Jackson4,89930.9-3.5
United Australia Arthur Hebblewhite3,96525.0+25.0
Total formal votes15,85797.7-0.1
Informal votes3792.3+0.1
Turnout 16,23695.0+0.1
Two-party-preferred result
United Australia Joseph Jackson 9,74361.4-4.2
Labor John Jackson6,11438.6+4.2
United Australia hold Swing -4.2

Neutral Bay

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

Newcastle

1938 New South Wales state election: Newcastle   [64]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labor Frank Hawkins 13,94670.9+19.3
Independent Claude Dalby5,73529.1+29.1
Total formal votes19,68196.7+1.1
Informal votes6743.3-1.1
Turnout 20,35595.3-0.8
Labor hold Swing N/A

Newtown

1938 New South Wales state election: Newtown   [65]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labor Frank Burke 11,75770.9+3.4
Independent Cyril Glassop4,83129.1+29.1
Total formal votes16,58897.10.0
Informal votes5032.90.0
Turnout 17,09196.0-0.9
Labor hold Swing N/A

North Sydney

1938 New South Wales state election: North Sydney   [66]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
United Australia Hubert Primrose 10,83658.5+2.9
Labor Henry Clayden7,69241.5+4.4
Total formal votes18,52897.9+0.4
Informal votes3992.1-0.4
Turnout 18,92794.7-1.7
United Australia hold Swing N/A

Orange

1938 New South Wales state election: Orange   [67]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
United Australia Alwyn Tonking 8,14056.1+2.1
Labor Edward McGarry6,38043.9-2.1
Total formal votes14,52098.6+0.3
Informal votes2041.4-0.3
Turnout 14,72497.0+0.2
United Australia hold Swing +2.1

Oxley

1938 New South Wales state election: Oxley   [68]   [68]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
United Australia Lewis Martin 8,25555.4-15.1
Independent George Mitchell 6,64244.6+44.6
Total formal votes14,89798.30.0
Informal votes2521.70.0
Turnout 15,14996.1-0.1
United Australia hold Swing N/A

Paddington

1938 New South Wales state election: Paddington   [69]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labor Maurice O'Sullivan 13,76890.2+23.7
Communist Lance Sharkey 1,5039.8+1.2
Total formal votes15,27192.3-3.8
Informal votes1,2667.7+3.8
Turnout 16,53792.9-0.5
Labor hold Swing N/A

Parramatta

1938 New South Wales state election: Parramatta   [70]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
United Australia George Gollan 12,87861.1+2.8
Labor Albert Rowe 8,20338.9-0.1
Total formal votes21,08197.9-0.4
Informal votes4452.1+0.4
Turnout 21,52696.50.0
United Australia hold Swing N/A

Petersham

1938 New South Wales state election: Petersham   [71]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
United Australia Eric Solomon 9,03350.5+1.4
Labor Bill Sheahan 8,86149.5+4.4
Total formal votes17,89498.3+0.2
Informal votes3071.7-0.2
Turnout 18,20197.1+1.2
United Australia hold Swing -1.3

Phillip

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

Raleigh

1938 New South Wales state election: Raleigh   [73]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Country Roy Vincent 8,65956.2-1.3
Independent Les Jordan 5,42935.2+35.2
Labor John Devine1,3168.5+8.5
Total formal votes15,40498.1-0.2
Informal votes2971.9+0.2
Turnout 15,70195.1-0.9
Country hold Swing N/A

Randwick

1938 New South Wales state election: Randwick   [74]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
United Australia Arthur Moverly 11,10056.0+3.1
Labor Bob O'Halloran 8,71944.0+1.0
Total formal votes19,81998.3-0.1
Informal votes3321.7+0.1
Turnout 20,15195.8-0.9
United Australia hold Swing N/A

Redfern

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

Ryde

1938 New South Wales state election: Ryde   [76]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
United Australia Eric Spooner 11,66953.3-6.0
Labor James Walsh5,74626.3-14.4
Independent William Harrison4,47820.4+20.4
Total formal votes21,89398.7+0.6
Informal votes2941.3-0.6
Turnout 22,18797.0-0.5
United Australia hold Swing N/A

South Coast

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

Sturt

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

Tamworth

1938 New South Wales state election: Tamworth   [79]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
United Australia Frank Chaffey 8,25560.0-15.7
Labor John Killalea4,68834.1+7.9
Independent Augustine Logue8045.9+5.9
Total formal votes13,74798.5+0.6
Informal votes2041.5-0.6
Turnout 13,95196.8+0.8
United Australia hold Swing N/A

Temora

1938 New South Wales state election: Temora   [80]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Country Doug Dickson 3,22527.0-32.3
Country Hugh Roberton 3,01525.3+25.3
Independent Lancelot Redgrave2,56821.5+21.5
Independent Alfred Hollande2,40420.2+20.2
Independent Harold Munro7176.0+6.0
Total formal votes11,92995.9-2.4
Informal votes5134.1+2.4
Turnout 12,44296.4+0.5
Two-candidate-preferred result
Country Doug Dickson 6,61855.5-3.8
Independent Lancelot Redgrave5,31144.5+44.5
Country hold Swing N/A

Tenterfield

1938 New South Wales state election: Tenterfield   [81]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Country Michael Bruxner 7,99561.9-38.1
Independent William McCotter2,96823.0+23.0
Independent Edward Ogilvie1,95915.2+15.2
Total formal votes12,92298.2
Informal votes2421.8
Turnout 13,16494.4
Country hold Swing N/A

Upper Hunter

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

Vaucluse

1938 New South Wales state election: Vaucluse   [83]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
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

1938 New South Wales state election: Wagga Wagga   [84]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Country Matthew Kilpatrick 8,09263.1-0.4
Labor Eric McKeig4,73436.9+0.4
Total formal votes12,82698.5-0.2
Informal votes1961.5+0.2
Turnout 13,02295.3-0.5
Country hold Swing -0.4

Waratah

1938 New South Wales state election: Waratah   [85]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labor Robert Cameron 16,44277.8+19.0
Communist Robert Cram4,69322.2+13.8
Total formal votes21.13594.4-2.1
Informal votes1,2495.6+2.1
Turnout 22,38495.9-0.9
Labor hold Swing N/A

Waverley

1938 New South Wales state election: Waverley   [86]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
United Australia John Waddell 10,21051.4+1.2
Labor William Clementson9,64148.6+2.7
Total formal votes19,85198.1-0.2
Informal votes3801.9+0.2
Turnout 20,23194.9-0.9
United Australia hold Swing N/A

Willoughby

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

Wollondilly

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

Woollahra

1938 New South Wales state election: Woollahra   [89]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
United Australia Vernon Treatt 9,51253.6-18.3
United Australia Arthur Butterell8,22746.4+46.4
Total formal votes17,73993.6-3.2
Informal votes1,2166.4+3.2
Turnout 18,95591.6+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 (Independent UAP) however he did not contest the election and the seat was regained by Vernon Treatt (United Australia).

Yass

1938 New South Wales state election: Yass   [90]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
United Australia George Ardill 7,07457.4-0.4
Independent Vivian Partridge5,24042.6+42.6
Total formal votes12,31498.5-0.1
Informal votes1861.5+0.1
Turnout 12,50096.1-1.0
United Australia hold Swing N/A

Young

1938 New South Wales state election: Young   [91]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Country Albert Reid 7,52253.9+0.2
Labor Reginald Phillips6,43546.1-0.2
Total formal votes13,95799.0+0.3
Informal votes1451.0-0.3
Turnout 14,10297.3+0.7
Country hold Swing +0.2

See also

Notes

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

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