Results of the Queensland state election, 1938 (A-K)
Queensland state election, 2 April 1938[1] | ||||||
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Enrolled voters | 582,711[1] | |||||
Votes cast | 539,037 | Turnout | 92.51% | –0.19 | ||
Informal votes | 7,058 | Informal | 1.31% | –0.43 | ||
Summary of votes by party | ||||||
Party | Primary votes | % | Swing | Seats | Change | |
Labor | 250,943 | 47.17% | –6.26 | 44 | – 2 | |
Country | 120,469 | 22.65% | · | 13 | · | |
United Australia | 74,328 | 13.97% | · | 4 | · | |
Protestant Labor | 46,568 | 8.75% | +8.75% | 1 | + 1 | |
Social Credit | 27,758 | 5.22% | –1.80% | 0 | ± 0 | |
Communist | 8,510 | 1.60% | +0.28 | 0 | ± 0 | |
Independent | 3,403 | 0.64% | –2.73 | 0 | ± 0 | |
Total | 531,979 | 62 | ||||
This is a list of electoral district results for the 1938 Queensland state election for electorates from A to K.
At the time, the voting system in Queensland was based on contingency voting, which was similar to the modern optional preferential voting system. In electorates with 3 or more candidates, preferences were not distributed if a candidate received more than 50% of the primary vote.
If none received more than 50%, all except the top two candidates were eliminated from the count and their preferences distributed between the two leaders, with the one receiving the most votes declared the winner.
Results by electoral district
Albert
Queensland state election, 1938: Albert[2] | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Country | Thomas Plunkett | 3,713 | 40.5 | -13.0 | |
Labor | John Bray | 2,622 | 28.6 | +28.6 | |
Protestant Labor | Robert Elliott | 1,542 | 16.8 | +16.8 | |
Social Credit | George Gray | 1,289 | 14.1 | -32.4 | |
Total formal votes | 9,166 | 99.0 | +1.9 | ||
Informal votes | 95 | 1.0 | -1.9 | ||
Turnout | 9,261 | 92.4 | +1.0 | ||
Two-party-preferred result | |||||
Country | Thomas Plunkett | 4,195 | 54.9 | +1.4 | |
Labor | John Bray | 3,446 | 45.1 | +45.1 | |
Country hold | Swing | N/A | |||
Aubigny
Queensland state election, 1938: Aubigny | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Country | Arthur Moore | 5,408 | 65.7 | -34.3 | |
Labor | James Strofeld | 1,976 | 24.0 | +24.0 | |
Independent | Hermann Wrembeck | 844 | 10.3 | +10.3 | |
Total formal votes | 8,228 | 98.9 | |||
Informal votes | 91 | 1.1 | |||
Turnout | 8,319 | 92.6 | |||
Country hold | Swing | N/A | |||
- Preferences were not distributed.
Barcoo
Queensland state election, 1938: Barcoo | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labor | Frank Bulcock | unopposed | |||
Labor hold | Swing | ||||
Baroona
Queensland state election, 1938: Baroona | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labor | William Power | 4,571 | 49.6 | -19.6 | |
Protestant Labor | Ralph Powell | 2,539 | 27.6 | +27.6 | |
United Australia | Edwyn Roper | 2,103 | 22.8 | +22.8 | |
Total formal votes | 9,213 | 98.7 | +2.4 | ||
Informal votes | 123 | 1.3 | -2.4 | ||
Turnout | 9,336 | 92.4 | +2.7 | ||
Two-candidate-preferred result | |||||
Labor | William Power | 4,736 | 57.7 | -11.5 | |
Protestant Labor | Ralph Powell | 3,478 | 42.3 | +42.3 | |
Labor hold | Swing | N/A | |||
Bowen
Queensland state election, 1938: Bowen | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labor | Ernest Riordan | 3,098 | 39.2 | -13.4 | |
Communist | Fred Paterson | 2,319 | 29.3 | +13.7 | |
Country | Ernest Forde | 2,135 | 27.0 | -2.4 | |
Social Credit | Henry Beck | 355 | 4.5 | +4.5 | |
Total formal votes | 7,907 | 99.2 | +0.7 | ||
Informal votes | 62 | 0.8 | -0.7 | ||
Turnout | 7,969 | 94.6 | +0.7 | ||
Two-candidate-preferred result | |||||
Labor | Ernest Riordan | 3,308 | 56.2 | ||
Communist | Fred Paterson | 2,579 | 43.8 | ||
Labor hold | Swing | N/A | |||
Bremer
Queensland state election, 1938: Bremer | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labor | Frank Cooper | 7,099 | 83.4 | -4.1 | |
Communist | Geordie Burns | 1,414 | 16.6 | +4.1 | |
Total formal votes | 8,513 | 96.9 | -0.5 | ||
Informal votes | 276 | 3.1 | +0.5 | ||
Turnout | 8,789 | 95.0 | +0.4 | ||
Labor hold | Swing | -4.1 | |||
Brisbane
Queensland state election, 1938: Brisbane | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labor | John Mann | 5,704 | 66.0 | +1.6 | |
United Australia | Benjamin White | 2,933 | 34.0 | +34.0 | |
Total formal votes | 8,637 | 98.3 | +1.1 | ||
Informal votes | 146 | 1.7 | -1.1 | ||
Turnout | 8,637 | 88.2 | +3.9 | ||
Labor hold | Swing | N/A | |||
Bulimba
Queensland state election, 1938: Bulimba | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labor | George Marriott | 5,847 | 59.8 | -7.0 | |
United Australia | Robert Larmar | 2,132 | 21.8 | -5.3 | |
Social Credit | Julius Streeter | 1,221 | 12.5 | +12.5 | |
Independent | Bernard Dent | 577 | 5.9 | +5.9 | |
Total formal votes | 9,777 | 97.6 | -0.8 | ||
Informal votes | 240 | 2.4 | +0.8 | ||
Turnout | 10,017 | 95.4 | +0.4 | ||
Labor hold | Swing | N/A | |||
- Preferences were not distributed.
Bundaberg
Queensland state election, 1938: Bundaberg | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labor | Bernard McLean | 4,356 | 44.1 | -8.3 | |
Country | Laurence Scotney | 2,393 | 24.2 | +10.1 | |
Social Credit | Henry Clegton | 1,699 | 17.2 | -16.3 | |
Protestant Labor | Ernest Miles | 1,439 | 14.6 | -18.9 | |
Total formal votes | 9,887 | 99.2 | -0.1 | ||
Informal votes | 83 | 0.8 | +0.1 | ||
Turnout | 9,970 | 95.5 | -1.2 | ||
Two-party-preferred result | |||||
Labor | Bernard McLean | 4,694 | 59.1 | ||
Country | Laurence Scotney | 3,247 | 40.9 | ||
Labor hold | Swing | N/A | |||
Buranda
Queensland state election, 1938: Buranda | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labor | Edward Hanson | 5,168 | 50.9 | -13.3 | |
United Australia | Hector Annat | 2,432 | 23.9 | -3.0 | |
Protestant Labor | Joseph Webster | 2,202 | 21.7 | +21.7 | |
Social Credit | Harold Tapper | 358 | 3.5 | -5.5 | |
Total formal votes | 10,160 | 98.5 | -0.2 | ||
Informal votes | 155 | 1.5 | +0.2 | ||
Turnout | 10,315 | 94.1 | +0.8 | ||
Labor hold | Swing | N/A | |||
- Preferences were not distributed.
Cairns
Queensland state election, 1938: Cairns | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labor | John O'Keefe | 4,597 | 56.3 | -13.0 | |
Country | William Chapman | 1,830 | 22.4 | +22.4 | |
Protestant Labor | Robert Smith | 1,740 | 21.3 | +21.3 | |
Total formal votes | 8,167 | 98.8 | +0.7 | ||
Informal votes | 99 | 1.2 | -0.7 | ||
Turnout | 8,266 | 90.6 | +0.4 | ||
Labor hold | Swing | N/A | |||
- Preferences were not distributed.
Carnarvon
Queensland state election, 1938: Carnarvon | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labor | Paul Hilton | 4,514 | 56.2 | +3.4 | |
Country | John Leahy | 3,515 | 43.8 | +4.3 | |
Total formal votes | 8,029 | 99.3 | +0.1 | ||
Informal votes | 55 | 0.7 | -0.1 | ||
Turnout | 8,084 | 91.6 | -0.3 | ||
Labor hold | Swing | N/A | |||
Carpentaria
Queensland state election, 1938: Carpentaria | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labor | John Mullan | 3,501 | 55.8 | -44.2 | |
Country | James Boyd | 2,775 | 44.2 | +44.2 | |
Total formal votes | 6,276 | 98.8 | |||
Informal votes | 75 | 1.2 | |||
Turnout | 6,351 | 79.8 | |||
Labor hold | Swing | N/A | |||
Charters Towers
Queensland state election, 1938: Charters Towers | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labor | William Wellington | unopposed | |||
Labor hold | Swing | ||||
Cook
Queensland state election, 1938: Cook | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labor | Harold Collins | 4,485 | 59.0 | +5.3 | |
Country | George Weaver | 2,574 | 33.8 | +7.8 | |
Social Credit | Joseph Mears | 547 | 7.2 | -13.1 | |
Total formal votes | 7,606 | 98.0 | -0.4 | ||
Informal votes | 157 | 2.0 | +0.4 | ||
Turnout | 7,763 | 90.4 | -0.3 | ||
Labor hold | Swing | N/A | |||
- Preferences were not distributed.
Cooroora
Queensland state election, 1938: Cooroora | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Country | Harry Walker | 5,353 | 59.5 | -7.1 | |
Labor | Andrew Thompson | 2,283 | 25.4 | +25.4 | |
Social Credit | Denis Hannay | 1,364 | 15.1 | +15.1 | |
Total formal votes | 9,000 | 98.9 | +0.8 | ||
Informal votes | 100 | 1.1 | -0.8 | ||
Turnout | 9,100 | 94.4 | +0.7 | ||
Country hold | Swing | N/A | |||
- Preferences were not distributed.
Cunningham
Queensland state election, 1938: Cunningham | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Country | William Deacon | unopposed | |||
Country hold | Swing | ||||
Dalby
Queensland state election, 1938: Dalby | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labor | Aubrey Slessar | 4,661 | 50.3 | +2.1 | |
Country | Godfrey Morgan | 4,604 | 49.7 | -2.1 | |
Total formal votes | 9,265 | 98.9 | -0.1 | ||
Informal votes | 102 | 1.1 | +0.1 | ||
Turnout | 9,367 | 91.7 | -1.4 | ||
Labor gain from Country | Swing | +2.1 | |||
East Toowoomba
Queensland state election, 1938: East Toowoomba | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labor | James Kane | 3,831 | 45.4 | -9.0 | |
Country | Herbert Yeates | 2,626 | 31.1 | -14.5 | |
Independent UAP | James Annand | 1,986 | 23.5 | +23.5 | |
Total formal votes | 8,443 | 98.6 | +0.1 | ||
Informal votes | 120 | 1.4 | -0.1 | ||
Turnout | 8,563 | 90.1 | -2.4 | ||
Two-party-preferred result | |||||
Country | Herbert Yeates | 4,198 | 51.3 | +5.7 | |
Labor | James Kane | 3,977 | 48.7 | -5.7 | |
Country gain from Labor | Swing | +5.7 | |||
Enoggera
Queensland state election, 1938: Enoggera | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labor | George Taylor | 5,689 | 54.7 | -14.3 | |
Protestant Labor | James Underhill | 2,390 | 23.0 | +23.0 | |
United Australia | Robert Gardiner | 2,326 | 22.3 | -8.7 | |
Total formal votes | 10,405 | 99.2 | +0.8 | ||
Informal votes | 83 | 0.8 | -0.8 | ||
Turnout | 10,488 | 94.9 | +1.0 | ||
Labor hold | Swing | N/A | |||
- Preferences were not distributed.
Fassifern
Queensland state election, 1938: Fassifern | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Country | Adolf Muller | 6,086 | 67.3 | +5.2 | |
Labor | John Holman | 2,951 | 32.7 | -5.2 | |
Total formal votes | 9,037 | 98.6 | -0.3 | ||
Informal votes | 124 | 1.4 | +0.3 | ||
Turnout | 9,161 | 94.7 | +0.3 | ||
Country hold | Swing | +5.2 | |||
Fitzroy
Queensland state election, 1938: Fitzroy | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labor | James Clark | 5,222 | 55.0 | -8.3 | |
Country | Edwin Hiskens | 3,616 | 38.1 | +1.5 | |
Social Credit | Sidney Cooper | 650 | 6.9 | +6.9 | |
Total formal votes | 9,488 | 99.4 | +0.9 | ||
Informal votes | 9,545 | 93.4 | -0.9 | ||
Turnout | 9,545 | 93.4 | -0.9 | ||
Labor hold | Swing | N/A | |||
- Preferences were not distributed.
Fortitude Valley
Queensland state election, 1938: Fortitude Valley | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labor | Samuel Brassington | 5,136 | 56.4 | -15.9 | |
United Australia | William Boden | 2,492 | 27.4 | +2.3 | |
Protestant Labor | Andrew Knox | 1,476 | 16.2 | +16.2 | |
Total formal votes | 9,104 | 98.7 | -0.2 | ||
Informal votes | 118 | 1.3 | +0.2 | ||
Turnout | 9,222 | 93.3 | +0.2 | ||
Labor hold | Swing | N/A | |||
- Preferences were not distributed.
Gregory
Queensland state election, 1938: Gregory | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labor | George Pollock | 3,785 | 64.9 | -35.1 | |
Country | Edward Phillott | 2,045 | 35.1 | +35.1 | |
Total formal votes | 5,830 | 97.9 | |||
Informal votes | 125 | 2.1 | |||
Turnout | 5,955 | 81.4 | |||
Labor hold | Swing | N/A | |||
Gympie
Queensland state election, 1938: Gympie | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labor | Thomas Dunstan | 3,040 | 43.0 | -13.7 | |
Protestant Labor | William Millett | 2,264 | 32.0 | +32.0 | |
Country | Vivian Tozer | 1,526 | 21.6 | -21.7 | |
Social Credit | Alfred Taylor | 246 | 3.5 | +3.5 | |
Total formal votes | 7,076 | 99.3 | +0.2 | ||
Informal votes | 51 | 0.7 | -0.2 | ||
Turnout | 7,127 | 93.7 | -0.5 | ||
Two-candidate-preferred result | |||||
Labor | Thomas Dunstan | 3,203 | 55.3 | -1.4 | |
Protestant Labor | William Millett | 2,590 | 44.7 | +44.7 | |
Labor hold | Swing | N/A | |||
Hamilton
Queensland state election, 1938: Hamilton | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
United Australia | Hugh Russell | 6,573 | 68.7 | +2.9 | |
Labor | William Pinder | 3,001 | 31.3 | -2.9 | |
Total formal votes | 9,574 | 98.7 | +0.2 | ||
Informal votes | 129 | 1.3 | -0.2 | ||
Turnout | 9,703 | 94.3 | +4.3 | ||
United Australia hold | Swing | +2.9 | |||
Herbert
Queensland state election, 1938: Herbert | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labor | Percy Pease | 4,858 | 52.9 | -10.8 | |
Country | Clarence Page | 1,643 | 17.9 | +17.9 | |
Communist | Jack Henry | 1,563 | 17.0 | -0.3 | |
Protestant Labor | Ernest Malin | 1,121 | 12.2 | +12.2 | |
Total formal votes | 9,185 | 98.4 | +0.2 | ||
Informal votes | 146 | 1.6 | -0.2 | ||
Turnout | 9,331 | 87.2 | -0.9 | ||
Labor hold | Swing | N/A | |||
- Preferences were not distributed.
Ipswich
Queensland state election, 1938: Ipswich | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labor | David Gledson | 6,289 | 66.0 | -34.0 | |
United Australia | Henry Beverley | 3,235 | 34.0 | +34.0 | |
Total formal votes | 9,524 | 98.4 | |||
Informal votes | 150 | 1.6 | |||
Turnout | 9,674 | 95.9 | |||
Labor hold | Swing | N/A | |||
Isis
Queensland state election, 1938: Isis | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Country | William Brand | 5,247 | 64.7 | +6.6 | |
Labor | Ernest Widdup | 2,857 | 35.3 | -6.6 | |
Total formal votes | 8,104 | 98.6 | +0.1 | ||
Informal votes | 113 | 1.4 | -0.1 | ||
Turnout | 8,217 | 94.7 | -0.3 | ||
Country hold | Swing | +6.6 | |||
Ithaca
Queensland state election, 1938: Ithaca | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labor | Ned Hanlon | 5,145 | 49.9 | -50.1 | |
Protestant Labor | George Webb | 3,448 | 33.4 | +33.4 | |
United Australia | Kenneth Morris | 1,727 | 16.7 | +16.7 | |
Total formal votes | 10,320 | 99.1 | |||
Informal votes | 97 | 0.9 | |||
Turnout | 10,417 | 94.8 | |||
Two-candidate-preferred result | |||||
Labor | Ned Hanlon | 5,226 | 52.3 | -47.7 | |
Protestant Labor | George Webb | 4,770 | 47.7 | +47.7 | |
Labor hold | Swing | N/A | |||
Kelvin Grove
Queensland state election, 1938: Kelvin Grove | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labor | Frank Waters | 4,375 | 42.5 | -27.2 | |
Protestant Labor | George Morris | 3,684 | 35.8 | +35.8 | |
United Australia | Edgar Ralph | 2,229 | 21.7 | -8.6 | |
Total formal votes | 10,228 | 99.5 | +1.1 | ||
Informal votes | 51 | 0.5 | -1.1 | ||
Turnout | 10,339 | 95.3 | +1.5 | ||
Two-candidate-preferred result | |||||
Protestant Labor | George Morris | 4,779 | 51.6 | +51.6 | |
Labor | Frank Waters | 4,479 | 48.4 | -21.3 | |
Protestant Labor gain from Labor | Swing | N/A | |||
Kennedy
Queensland state election, 1938: Kennedy | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labor | Frank Waters | 5,492 | 63.8 | -0.1 | |
Country | James Kennedy | 3,120 | 36.2 | +0.1 | |
Total formal votes | 8,612 | 97.9 | +1.1 | ||
Informal votes | 183 | 2.1 | -1.1 | ||
Turnout | 8,795 | 90.1 | -1.4 | ||
Labor hold | Swing | -0.1 | |||
Keppel
Queensland state election, 1938: Keppel | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Country | David Daniel | 4,391 | 54.2 | +4.8 | |
Social Credit | John Harding | 2,484 | 30.7 | +13.1 | |
Independent | John Salmon | 1,227 | 15.1 | +15.1 | |
Total formal votes | 8,102 | 98.7 | -0.1 | ||
Informal votes | 125 | 1.3 | +0.1 | ||
Turnout | 8,227 | 92.3 | -3.0 | ||
Country hold | Swing | N/A | |||
- Preferences were not distributed.
Kurilpa
Queensland state election, 1938: Kurilpa | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labor | Patrick Copley | 4,545 | 46.8 | -17.1 | |
United Australia | John Pringle | 2,437 | 25.5 | -5.7 | |
Protestant Labor | Joseph Moore | 2,313 | 24.0 | +24.0 | |
Communist | Alec MacDonald | 426 | 4.4 | +4.4 | |
Total formal votes | 9,721 | 98.6 | +0.3 | ||
Informal votes | 133 | 1.4 | -0.3 | ||
Turnout | 9,854 | 91.3 | -0.6 | ||
Two-party-preferred result | |||||
Labor | Patrick Copley | 4,960 | 56.1 | ||
United Australia | John Pringle | 3,880 | 43.9 | ||
Labor hold | Swing | N/A | |||
See also
- Results of the Queensland state election, 1938 (L-Z)
- Queensland state election, 1938
- Candidates of the Queensland state election, 1938
- Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly, 1938-1941
References
- ↑ Australian Government and Politics Database. "Parliament of Queensland, Assembly election, 11 May 1935". Retrieved 23 December 2009.
- ↑ Hughes, Colin A. (1974). Voting for the Queensland legislative assembly, 1890-1964. Canberra: Dept. of Political Science, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University. ISBN 0-7081-0301-4.
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